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    Ken Brecher, anthropologist and longtime champion of Los Angeles humanities, dies at 78

    LOS ANGELES — In a single lifetime, Ken Brecher lived many lives. The longtime president of the Los Angeles Library Foundation, Brecher also spent more than a decade leading the Sundance Institute and served as associate artistic director of the Mark Taper Forum in downtown Los Angeles. Each role provided him the opportunity to touch people's lives and embrace their mutual humanity, an ...
    by Jeremy Childs, Los Angeles Times Dec 16, 2023 4 minutes

    LOS ANGELES — In a single lifetime, Ken Brecher lived many lives.

    The longtime president of the Los Angeles Library Foundation, Brecher also spent more than a decade leading the Sundance Institute and served as associate artistic director of the Mark Taper Forum in downtown Los Angeles.

    Each role provided him the opportunity to touch people's lives and embrace their mutual humanity, an ambition that sprang from his studies as a cultural anthropologist, according to those who knew him.

    Among those whose work and lives reflect his influence is journalist Susan Orlean, who credits Brecher with inspiring her 2018 bestseller,

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