L. John Harris presents his new book published by Heyday, Portrait in Red, in conversation with Kimberly Cameron at Book Passage in Corte Madera.

51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera, CA.

L. John Harris, born in Los Angeles, studied art and literature at UC Berkeley in the 1960s. Seduced by Berkeley’s food revolution in the 1970s, Harris worked at several iconic shops and restaurants and wrote The Book of Garlic (1974). He launched his cookbook company, Aris Books, in 1980 and his “Foodoodles” cartoon byline in Bay Area magazines led to a series of illustrated memoirs: Foodoodles (2010), Café French (2019) and My Little Plague Journal (2022). Mr. Harris coproduced with PBS in 2001 the film Los Romeros: The Royal Family of the Guitar and serves as the curator of the Harris Guitar Collection at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Harris’s next book is a history of Berkeley’s “gourmet ghetto,” to be published by Heyday.

Kimberley Cameron is President of Kimberley Cameron & Associates and has been a literary agent for more than 30 years. Her most recent successes are The Chanel Sisters by Judithe Little (Graydon House), the Willie Mays book, 24, Life Lessons and Stories from the Say Hey Kid (St. Martin’s Press), and Barbara Boxer’s Memoir, The Art of Tough (Hachette). She has started the successful careers of numerous debut authors. She resides and works from Tiburon, California and France, with many visits to New York to make the rounds of editorial offices. She is also a mentor to five other agents who are successful in selling their own books at her Agency.