Kevin Starr and his wife Sheila were favorite customers of mine at the Big 4 Restaurant where I work. He was on my mailing list for years, and was a big fan of my photography. Several times he offered to write the forward to a book if and when I published a collection of my photos. It was a generous offer from Kevin, but now, it will always remain a lost opportunity.

 

 

This is the best piece about Kevin Starr, written by Carl Nolte for the San Francisco Chronicle.

http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/nativeson/article/Kevin-Starr-renowned-historian-lived-and-loved-10873401.php

 

 

The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/16/us/kevin-starr-dead-california.html

 

The Sacramento Bee

http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article126755054.html

 

 

 

San Francisco's Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone

 

 

 

 

 

 

Books by Kevin Starr

Americans and the California Dream, 1850–1915. (1973 and 1986)
Land's End (a novel) (1979)
Inventing the Dream: California through the Progressive Era (1985)
"Sunset Magazine and the Phenomenon of the Far West". Stanford University Libraries. 1998.
Material Dreams: Southern California through the 1920s (1990)
Endangered Dreams: The Great Depression in California (1996)
The Dream Endures: California Enters the 1940s (1997)
Embattled Dreams: California in War and Peace, 1940-1950 (2002)
Coast Of Dreams: California on the Edge, 1990-2002 (2004)
California: a history. Random House. 2005.
Golden dreams: California in an age of abundance, 1950-1963. Oxford University Press US. July 2009.
Golden Gate: The Life and Times of America’s Greatest Bridge. Bloomsbury USA.

 

 

 

 

 

 

In honor of Kevin Starr, donations may be made to the USF Scholarship Fund (https://www.usfca.edu/giving/scholarships), to USC Undergraduate Scholarships (https://giveto.usc.edu), or to the Kevin Starr California Literacy Fund, established by the California State Library Foundation (http://cslfdn.org/) to support adult and youth literacy.