The Art Deco Society of California is pleased to host Jasmin Darznik, professor of English and creative writing at California College of the Arts. She will be discussing her new book, The Bohemians, which follows Dorothea Lange through 1920s San Francisco.

There will be a hosted Q&A session after the presentation.

This event will be hosted on Zoom. A link will be posted closer to the event and sent to those who have purchased tickets.

In 1918, celebrated photographer Dorothea Lange steps off the train in San Francisco, where a disaster kick-starts a new life. Her friendship with Caroline Lee, a vivacious, straight-talking Chinese American with a complicated past, gives her entrée into Monkey Block, an artists’ colony and the bohemian heart of the city. Dazzled by Caroline and her friends, Dorothea is catapulted into a heady new world of freedom, art, and politics. The Bohemians captures a glittering and gritty 1920s San Francisco, with a cast of unforgettable characters, including cameos from such legendary figures as Mabel Dodge Luhan, Frida Kahlo, Ansel Adams, and D. H. Lawrence.

Jasmin Darznik was born in Tehran, Iran, and came to America when she was five years old. She holds an MFA in fiction from Bennington College, a JD from the University of California, and a PhD in English from Princeton University. Now a professor of English and creative writing at California College of the Arts, she lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her family.