JOANN LEVY
P.O. Box 1809
Sutter Creek, CA 95685
(209) 267-1849
joann@goldrush.com

Public Lectures:

  • Featured in PBS special "Gold Rush", A&E's special "California and the Dream Seekers"
  • PBS special "Sacramento and the Gold Rush"
  • TLC special "History of San Francisco"
  • radio interviews on NPR
  • lectures at the National Archives, Autry Museum of Western Heritage, Great Valley Museum, Lompoc Museum, California State Parks Department, various libraries, historical societies, California State Library Foundation, etc.

Publications:

  • They Saw the Elephant: Women in the California Gold Rush, University of Oklahoma Press
  • Daughter of Joy, A Novel of Gold Rush San Francisco, Forge, 1998 (Recipient of the 1999 Willa Award for Best Historical Fiction)
  • For California's Gold, A Novel, University Press of Colorado, 2000

Recommendations:

www.goldrush.com/~joann/

JoAnn Levy has been listed in the Directory of California Thinkers since 08-Feb-1999 .