Veronique de Turenne is a journalist, essayist, book critic and blogger, and has been a staff writer at virtually every newspaper in Southern California. One of the highlights of her career was interviewing Vin Scully in his broadcast booth at Dodger Stadium, then receiving a handwritten thank you note from him a week later. She lives in Malibu.
Jesus Sanchez is a Los Angeles native who has worked as a journalist for more than 20 years. A graduate of Cal State Long Beach and East Los Angeles College, Sanchez was a staff writer for papers in Texas and Virginia before arriving at The Times in 1987, where he covered airlines, real estate and other beats for the Business section. He was one of the first members of the paper’s online reporting staff.
