If you any comments or questions about my biography of Charles Lummis or this website, feel free to email me at mark@charleslummis.com, or you can reach me through the address below. For a first-edition, hardcover copy of American Character (signed by me, if you wish), pay by PayPal (inquire for account information), or send a check for $25 and your shipping address to:
Mark Thompson
213 Morgan Street
Phoenixville, PA 19460
The price includes book-rate shipment by U.S. Postal Service to addresses in North America. For expedited shipment within the U.S. by priority mail, pay $30. Inquire about overseas sales or volume discounts for bookstores.
American Character is also available on Amazon, through the links at right, as are the two culinary histories I have published. One of them, Vintage California Cuisine, has a Lummis connection. A chapter in the book tells the story of, and includes several dozen recipes from, the cookbook Lummis helped assemble and publish in 1903, the Landmark Clubs Cook Book. A fundraiser for one of Lummis’s many causes, restoring neglected Spanish missions, it is regarded as one of the first English language cookbooks to chronicle the emergence of a distinctive American cuisine in the Southwest, infused with chiles and other flavors of Mexico and Spanish America.
I am not immersed in Southwestern history full-time. Though I return for frequent visits to Los Angeles, where I lived for many years, I now live outside of Philadelphia, working as an associate editor at Current History magazine, published by the University of California Press. For more about me and my work, you are welcome to visit my portfolio site.
