From the worlds or art and entertainment, politics, sports, and law, Larry Engelmann has drawn quotations from two thousand celebrities. He's compiled a record of our times in the words of those who shaped events and witnessed them up close. Included are the insights, sideswipes, visions, and verbal slips of such luminaries as Tom Cruise, Leonardo DiCaprio, Harrison Ford, Heather Locklear, Ashley Judd, Mel Gibson, Jay Leno, Courtney Love, Madonna, Al Gore, Dan Quayle, Monica Lewinsky, Jesse "The Body" Ventura, Michael Jordan, Don King, and John McEnroe.
Larry Engelmann is the author of six books: Intemperance(1979); The Goddess and the American Girl(1988); Tears Before the Rain(1991); Daughter of China(1998); They Said That(1999); and Feather in the Storm(2006). His books have been published in translation in 14 foreign languages, including Vietnamese and Chinese. He has also written for several national magazines including Life, American Heritage, Smithsonian, Playboy, Vietnam, the Saturday Review and Reader's Digest and for the Canadian magazine McLean's. He authored several stories published in American Way, the inflight magazine of American Airlines. His stories have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Atlanta Journal Constitution, the Toronto Star, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Washington Post and the San Jose Mercury News. He is currently at work on a book examining the serial murders in San Jose and the surrounding area between 1969 and 1971 with the working title, "Our Share of Night." Three of the murders (the Snoozy/Furlong/Bilek crimes) were solved in 1971. Another, the Mallicoat murder remains unsolved to this day. Three other similar crimes in the 1970s in Santa Clara County with the same MO as the first three, remain unsolved, also. He is also composing a memoir of coming of age in a small town during the height of the cold war, with the working title of Sex, Lies and Spam: A Very Cold War Childhood.
Mr. Engelmann lives part of each year at his home in northern California. He travels widely gathering materials for his writing and he customarily spends several weeks each year in Southeast Asia. He is a graduate of Austin High School in Austin, Minnesota, and earned his undergraduate degree in history and economics at the University of Minnesota in the Twin Cities. He earned a PhD in American history and literature from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
