December 6 – Gary Noy – Narrative Nonfiction Short Story Collections about local history – Hellacious California!
A Sierra Nevada native, Gary Noy has been a renowned history instructor at Sierra College for decades. The son and grandson of Cornish hardrock gold miners, Gary was born and raised in Grass Valley. He is a graduate of both UC Berkeley and CSU Sacramento. Gary is the founder and former director of the Sierra College Center for Sierra Nevada Studies and Editor-in-Chief emeritus of the Sierra College Press. His love of California history comes through in all his writing.
Above all else, Gary is a gifted storyteller, with many books of California stories to his name. We’ll chat with him about his book
Hellacious California!: Tales of Rascality! Revelry! Dissipation! Depravity! and the Birth of the Golden State.