Cari Beauchamp

Cari Beauchamp is most recently the author of "Joseph P. Kennedy Presents," the story of Joe Kennedy's Hollywood years. She previously authored "Adventures of a Hollywood Secretary: Her Private Letters from Inside the Studios of the 1920s" and "Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Powerful Women of Early Hollywood," edited and annotated "Anita Loos Rediscovered: Film Treatments and Fiction by the Creator of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes," and co-wrote "Hollywood on the Riviera: The Inside Story of the Cannes Film Festival."

She has written documentary films, writes for Vanity Fair and recently won the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Film Scholarship. In a previous life, she was Press Secretary to Governor Jerry Brown. She lives in West Los Angeles. Email