Novelist Ron Phillips
Saturday, February 4th
​3:00 p.m.

The Argentine dictator Juan Peron and his wife Evita were larger-than-life characters who continue to fascinate historians — and artists too. Evita, of course, inspired the hit Broadway musical “Evita,” with a score by Andrew Lloyd Webber. Now it’s her husband’s turn for the fictional treatment. Ojai novelist Ron Phillips has taken a real-life event involving the late dictator and turned it into a historical thriller, “The Hands of Juan Peron.” It seems that someone has broken into Peron’s tomb, cut off his hands, and spirited them away. Why? The answer involves a neo-Nazi plot to set up a Fourth Reich, and a reporter’s dogged attempts to uncover the truth. Join us as Art Center Literary Branch Chair Mark Lewis discusses the book with Phillips, an award-winning director of TV commercials and a former newspaper and magazine writer, who first turned to writing fiction in 2010 with his coming-of-age novel “Donnyboy.” Signed copies of Ron’s latest novel will be available for purchase.

​Admission: a $5 suggested donation requested at the door. 

For more info., contact Mark Lewis.