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Jervey Tervalon

Jervey Tervalon
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Jervey Tervalon

Jervey Tervalon is the author of All the Trouble You Need, Understand This, and the Los Angeles Times bestseller Dead Above Ground. An award-winning poet, screenwriter, and dramatist, Jervey was born in New Orleans, raised in Los Angeles, and now lives in Altadena, California, with his wife and two daughters.

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Excerpt 1 from All the Trouble You Need
Apr 05, 2013
Excerpt:
Excerpt 1 from Lita
Dec 07, 2012
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All the Trouble You Need will be released on February 25, 2003 in Trade Paperback
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All the Trouble You Need is now available in Trade Paperback
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All the Trouble You Need will be released on February 25, 2003 in
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All the Trouble You Need is now available in
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All the Trouble You Need will be released on May 07, 2002 in eBook
May 07, 2002
All the Trouble You Need will be released on May 07, 2002 in eBook
May 07, 2002

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Pasadena Star News, April 2, 2013
...Huneven, who also writes the book's insightful foreword; graphic and detective novelist Gary Phillips; acclaimed Altadena novelist Jervey Tervalon; native daughter Naomi Hirahara of the Mas Arai mystery series. There are lots of writers you have heard...
InlandSoCal.com, January 1, 2013
...and scientists. The readers include Los Angeles Review of Books Editor Tom Lutz;… Show more Altadena novelist Jervey Tervalon; Los Angeles short story writer and novelist Lisa Teasley; young writer Andrew Ramirez; mystery writer Gary Phillips; Slake...
KCET, November 30, 2012
...screen. This week LA Letters features those repurposing myth and making their own literature, music and maps like Jervey Tervalon, J Michael Walker, Kareem Abdul Jabbar, Jesse Bliss and Austin Peralta. Jervey Tervalon is a very busy man making...
Los Angeles Times, June 8, 2012
...one its founders hope will more accurately reflect the diversity of Los Angeles. Created by L.A. novelist Jervey Tervalon and USC's Kim Thomas-Barrios both former high school teachers in South L.A. the site aims to connect high-profile local authors and...
San Jose Mercury News, January 13, 2013
...Paris, to read from her favorite novel, Gabriel Garcia Marquez's "100 Years of Solitude." Altadena author Jervey Tervalon chose Bram Stoker's legendary "Dracula"; Andrew Ramirez, a young and talented local poet, read three of his own works. Whodunit...
Pasadena Star News, January 13, 2013
...Paris, to read from her favorite novel, Gabriel Garcia Marquez's "100 Years of Solitude." Altadena author Jervey Tervalon chose Bram Stoker's legendary "Dracula"; Andrew Ramirez, a young and talented local poet,yld_mgr.place_ad_here("adPosBox"); read...
Los Angeles Times, January 6, 2013
...flawed logic of 2nd Amendment absolutists affects all, endangers us all and can rob our children of everything. Jervey Tervalon is the director and founder of the Literature for Life project. His latest novel is "Serving Monster."...
Los Angeles Times, January 5, 2013
...flawed logic of 2nd Amendment absolutists affects all, endangers us all and can rob our children of everything. Jervey Tervalon is the director and founder of the Literature for Life project. His latest novel is "Serving Monster."...
InlandSoCal.com, January 1, 2013
...and scientists. The readers include Los Angeles Review of Books Editor Tom Lutz;… Show more Altadena novelist Jervey Tervalon; Los Angeles short story writer and novelist Lisa Teasley; young writer Andrew Ramirez; mystery writer Gary Phillips; Slake...
KCET, November 30, 2012
...screen. This week LA Letters features those repurposing myth and making their own literature, music and maps like Jervey Tervalon, J Michael Walker, Kareem Abdul Jabbar, Jesse Bliss and Austin Peralta. Jervey Tervalon is a very busy man making...
San Jose Mercury News, November 4, 2012
...California" - attracted more than 100 fans and benefactors. The quiz-show format - created by Phoebe and Larry Jervey Tervalon, left, and Jonathan Gold at the quiz event. (Correspondent Photo by James Carbone)Wilson, LitFest artistic director, and...