Susan Orlean New Book: Los Angeles Public Library Is The Subject

Susan Orlean Starts New Book About A Library
BEVERLY HILLS, CA - JUNE 06: Author Susan Orlean attends The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences' 'Hollywood Dogs: From Rin Tin Tin To Uggie' at AMPAS Samuel Goldwyn Theater on June 6, 2012 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images)
BEVERLY HILLS, CA - JUNE 06: Author Susan Orlean attends The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences' 'Hollywood Dogs: From Rin Tin Tin To Uggie' at AMPAS Samuel Goldwyn Theater on June 6, 2012 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images)

Susan Orlean, the bestselling author of The Orchid Thief (kind-of inspiration for the movie "Adaptation") and Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend, as well as New Yorker feature writer, is writing a book about the Los Angeles Public Library.

According to LA Observed, her starting point is "the fire in 1986 that almost consumed the [Los Angeles] Central Library, and which led to the building's expansion into the beauty we have today."

Orlean confirmed the news in a tweet:

She was previously quoted by the website Authors for Libraries, set up by the American Library Association, as saying "Libraries are what is best about us as a society: open, exciting, rich, informative, free, inclusive, engaging."

The book which will be published by Simon & Schuster, doesn't yet have a publishing date.

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