quintessential American voice” by Jane Smiley, in Vogue Magazine. Dallas’s novels with their themes of loyalty, friendship, and human dignity have been translated into a dozen foreign languages and have been optioned for films.
Her new novel is Little Souls.
Recently I asked Dallas about what she was reading. Her reply:
I review books for the Denver Post, and a few weeks back, I received an advance copy of Everybody Thought We Were Crazy by Mark Rozzo. It’s the story of Dennis Hopper and Brooke Howard’s marriage and 1960s Los Angeles. I loved it. Publication date is May. The love story is set against a background of pop art, rock and roll, drugs, and the new Hollywood. The couple knew everybody from the Fondas to the Black Panthers. IVisit Sandra Dallas's website and Facebook page.became a Dennis Hopper fan when I saw him in an early television performance in the 1950s. I think it was on The Medic. After Hopper’s marriage to Brooke broke up, I interviewed him when he was living in the Mabel Dodge Luhan house in Taos with his soon-to-be wife Michelle Phillips. The house was filled with pop art, which wasn’t all that popular in Taos at the time. A story I heard was that a man came to install a telephone and asked where to put it. Dennis was absorbed with something and pointed to a wall. The man installed the phone in the middle of an Andy Warhol painting.
--Marshal Zeringue
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