Author of ‘L.A. Coroner’ to Speak at Little Tokyo Library

Join author Anne Soon Choi in her discussion of “L.A. Coroner: Thomas Noguchi and Death in Hollywood” (Third State Books), the first-ever biography of Dr. Thomas Noguchi, former chief medical examiner-coroner of Los Angeles County, who performed the autopsies of Marilyn Monroe, Robert F. Kennedy, Natalie Wood, and hundreds of other notable personalities.

The book event will be held Saturday, Aug. 9, from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the Little Tokyo Branch Library, 203 S. Los Angeles St. (at Second Street) in Little Tokyo.

Choi is a historian and professor of Asian American studies and university administrator at CSU Northridge. Her essay “The Japanese American Citizens League, Los Angeles Politics, and the Thomas Noguchi Case,” on which this book is based, won the 2021 Francis Wheat Prize f