Joan Myerson

All World-Building Is Local, Sunday, May 5,  2:00-3:00pm, Mt. View Mausoleum

Joan Meyerson is an award-winning writer/director/producer of documentaries and television programs, including the PBS National Memorial Day Concert, for which she won two Writers Guild of America awards. The dramatic accounts she wrote about vets and military families reconfirmed her belief that the best stories come from real life, a belief she has followed in writing such varied programs as Zoolife with Jack Hanna (TV series), and Children of Japan (Disney). Having told the stories of others, she now tells one of her own, inspired by the two times she lived in Paris. A native of Los Angeles, Joan is busy finding more stories in her Valley Village neighborhood. Who Needs Paris? is her first novel.