Author Talk: Anne Soon Choi in Conversation With Naomi Hirahara

Join author Anne Soon Choi in her discussion of L.A. Coroner, the first-ever biography of Dr. Thomas Noguchi, the Chief Medical Examiner–Coroner of Los Angeles County, who performed the autopsies of Marilyn Monroe, Robert F. Kennedy, Natalie Wood, and hundreds of other notable personalities.

Anne Soon Choi, Ph.D., author of L.A. Coroner: Thomas Noguchi and Death in Hollywood (Third State Books), is a historian and professor of Asian American Studies and university administrator at California State University, Northridge. Her essay “The Japanese American Citizens League, Los Angeles Politics, and the Thomas Noguchi Case,” on which this book is based, won the 2021 Francis Wheat Prize from the Historical Society of Southern California. Choi has previously served on the faculty of Swarthmore College and the University of Kansas and is an Andrew Mellon Fellow and an American Council of Learned Societies Digital Ethnic Studies Fellow. She lives and writes in Los Angeles, California.

Naomi Hirahara is an Edgar Award-winning author of multiple mystery series, including the Mas Arai novels, which have been published in Japanese, Korean, and French. A former journalist with The Rafu Shimpo, she has also written nonfiction history books, curated exhibitions, and authored the historical mysteries Clark and Division and its USA Today bestselling follow-up Evergreen.