Mallory O'Meara

Mallory is an award winning and best-selling author and historian. She lives with her two cats in the mountains near Los Angeles, where she is at work on her next nonfiction book. Her first book, The Lady From The Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick, is a Los Angeles Times bestseller. It won the 2019 SCIBA Award for Biography, the Rondo 2019 Book of the Year and was nominated for the Hugo and Locus awards. 
Her second book, Girly Drinks: A World History of Women and Alcohol, was released October 2021 to critical acclaim. It won a James Beard Award and has been nominated for a 2022 Spirited Award.

Every week, Mallory hosts the literary podcast Reading Glasses alongside filmmaker and writer Brea Grant. The show is hosted by Maximum Fun and focuses on book culture and reader life.
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Event & Book Info

Book: Girly Drinks: A World History of Women and Alcohol
Genre: Science Fiction
Panel: Reading Glasses
Date: Sept. 10
Time: 6 pm
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