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For our Ultimate L.A. Bookshelf, we asked writers with deep ties to the city to name their favorite Los Angeles books across eight categories or genres. Based on 95 responses, here are the 14 most essential L.A. memoirs and biographies, from Hollywood tell-alls to immigrant sagas, hard lives (Luis J. Rodriguez) and spectacular flameouts (Freeway Rick Ross). If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. … Adobe Days by Sarah Bixby Smith, 1925 The book’s subtitle reads, in part,

Biography:  https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2023-04-11/the-ultimate-la-bookshelf-memoirs-biographies

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Bias

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