Author Event with Mallory O'Meara

Mallory O’Meara is the bestselling author of The Lady from the Black Lagoon, which won the 2019 SCIBA award for Biography and the 2019 Rondo award for Book of the Year, Girly Drinks, which won a 2022 James Beard Award, and Girls Make Movies, which was a 2023 Junior Library Guild Selection. She co-hosts the literary podcasts Reading Glasses and Reading Smut.

Her next book, Daughter of Daring: The Trick-Riding, Train-Leaping, Road-Racing Life of Helen Gibson, Hollywood’s First Stuntwoman was released in February 2025 to critical acclaim.

She lives in Los Angeles with her two cats, where she is working on her next nonfiction book.

You can follow Mallory on Twitter @malloryomeara or visit her website malloryomeara.com.

Daughter of Daring: The Trick-Riding, Train-Leaping, Road-Racing Life of Helen Gibson, Hollywood’s First Stuntwoman is forthcoming from Hanover Square Press in February 2025.

“A wide-ranging rodeo of a book that starts as the cliffhangerbiography of Helen Gibson and quickly becomes a women-first history ofHollywood that comes at you as fast and powerful as a runaway train." — NYT Bestselling Author Grady Hendrix

“The book was as vivacious and thrilling as the career it tracks. An inspiring reminder that as women in Hollywood, we're not carving a path - we're reminding the world of our legacy. It was a fast-paced and fun history of Hollywood roped together by the amazing life of Helen Gibson. Seriously made me proud to be a woman working in film.” — Filmmaker and CAMGIRL Author Isa Mazzei

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