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A tribute to August Coppola

By Claire Noland
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Thanks to reader Patricia Vidour, an artist from Argentina, for passing along a video tribute to August Coppola by his son Christopher Coppola, who is a filmmaker. August Coppola, who died Oct. 27, was a former literature professor who had been living in Savannah, Ga., while he was writing fiction. Coppola had planned to use some of Vidour’s paintings in a future novel. You can see her work in the video and at her blog, http://www.patriciavidour.com/2009/10/dr-august-floyd-coppola-my-mentor.html.

-- Claire Noland

Afterword
Claire Noland

Claire Noland, who joined the Los Angeles Times in 1994, became editor of curated email newsletters in spring 2015. She had been in the Obituary Department since 2006, the last six years as editor. Before that, she was an editor in Sports. A California native and graduate of Mount St. Mary’s College in Los Angeles, she worked at the Antelope Valley Press, Los Angeles Daily News and Minneapolis Star Tribune. She left The Times in December 2015.

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