Evening Lecture: Sue Hodson - I Promise You I’ll be Home: Korean Letters of a U.S. Marine

Join Sue Hodson, former curator of literary collections, as she shares insight about her upcoming book, “I Promise You I'll Be Home”.  LA Times columnist Al Martinez chronicled life in Southern California as a writer who had “an extraordinary ability to take something very personal and spin it out beautifully to make you laugh or weep.” As a 21-year-old Marine on the front lines of the Korean War, Martinez dispatched letters almost daily to his bride, Joanne. His letters home capture his experiences eloquently and with depth of understanding as they express the dangers, hardships, fear, friendships, and even humor of life at the front.

Sara S. “Sue” Hodson is the retired curator of literary collections for The Huntington Library, where she oversaw all British and American literary manuscripts. Her honors include the Society of California Archivist’s Lifetime Achievement Award, Jack London Foundation’s 2012 Woman of the Year and the 2017 Avery Clayton Spirit Award. Her writing has appeared inThe American Archivist, California History, the Encyclopedia of Library and Information