Kevin Starr 
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SOURCE: The Conversation
11-1-17
Kevin Starr’s legacy?
by William Deverell
He gave the world the idea of the California Dream.
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SOURCE: Los Angeles Daily News
1-15-17
Kevin Starr, California’s premier historian and USC professor, dies at 76
Starr, a former California State Librarian, researched and wrote “Americans and the California Dream,” a series of books considered the definitive account of the California story.
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SOURCE: LA Times
4-12-13
Keeping up with Kevin Starr
Asking Kevin Starr a question is like turning on a fire hose. First there's a blast of erudition. Then, as his intellect gathers, information rushes out in a deluge. He's talking, but it's as if an invisible scholar inside his head is yanking books off shelves, throwing them open, checking the index, then racing off to find the next volume. On the outside, Starr is an avuncular 72-year-old, but his brain is sprinting like an Olympian.Amazingly, it's possible to keep up.This may be Starr's greatest gift: not just that he has amassed a phenomenal body of knowledge but that he can translate it into dynamic works of history. There are eight volumes in his seminal "Americans and the California Dream" series, from "Americans and the California Dream, 1850-1915" (1973) to "Golden Dreams: California in an Age of Abundance, 1950-1963" (2009). It's for these books — as well as his work as California State Librarian and his stellar teaching career — that Starr will be honored with the Robert Kirsch Award for lifetime achievement at the Los Angeles Times Book Prizes on April 19....
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