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JIM MORRISON IN THE CITY OF IMMORTALS

My first trip to France came about when a fellow staff member in a museum, who moonlighted as a travel agent, offered me a canceled ticket on a charter flight. All I had to pay was the tax. At a gallery opening that following week, an artist friend heard I was leaving for Paris and told me I had to go see an amazing cemetery, Père-Lachaise, filled with art and celebrities. Not a fan of graveyards, I asked, “Why?” He knew Oscar Wilde was a literary hero of mine and said his ancestor had sculpted the monument marking his burial place. I had my first destination. Thirty plus years later my passion for photographing and researching the place has never waned. Signing a publishing deal with Goff Books brought my dream to life.

Right before the pandemic my debut book, was named to the bestseller list, but then my author tour went up in smoke due to the shutdown. However, the silver lining of moving onto Zoom has enabled me to reach hundreds more people around the country. My intention is to give readers three books in one: a personal dialogue with the immortals,

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