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LUELLEN SMILEY ADVENTURERS IN LIVINGNESS
Where Gaps of Expression are Liberated
ABOUT
Luellen Smiley is a creative nonfiction writer, author, columnist, and historian whose writing is deeply rooted in a controversial personal history. She is the daughter of Allen Smiley, a close friend, associate, and business partner of notorious Las Vegas gangster Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel. Her father was sitting only feet from Siegel when Siegel was murdered in Beverly Hills on June 20, 1947.
That extraordinary childhood history became the foundation for Smiley’s first book, Cradle of Crime: A Daughter’s Tribute, published in 2017. The memoir explores what it was like to grow up as the daughter of a man connected to organized crime while trying to reconcile her love for her father with the secrecy, fear, and criminal world surrounding him.
Smiley’s work has appeared in publications including the New York Post, MORE Magazine, Southern California newspapers, and Authorlink. She wrote the newspaper column Smiley’s Dice—Adventures in Livingness, which earned a Blue-Ribbon Award from the California Newspapers Association for her Growing Up With Gangsters columns.
Her interest in her father’s history also led her to become a researcher and commentator on organized crime history. She has participated in television, radio, and documentary interviews.
Smiley’s next book, Gaslighting Greta, will be published this year. A personal story that reads like fiction. Her own website describes the project as exploring a woman whose life is destabilized by gaslighting and psychological manipulation.
Her writing career reflects a recurring theme: using personal experience and research to uncover the truth behind complicated relationships and extraordinary lives. From the secretive world surrounding her father and Bugsy Siegel to the deeply personal territory of Gaslighting Greta, Smiley’s work transforms difficult experiences into stories of survival, discovery, and ultimately reclaiming one’s voice.
Luellen Smiley is an author whose life has given her an unusual perspective on secrecy, manipulation, family loyalty, betrayal, and survival—and she uses that perspective as the raw material for her nonfiction storytelling.
2 responses to “CRADLE OF CRIME- A Daughter’s Tribute.”
Hello LouLou..
Unsure if you remember 5-1/2 years ago when our daughter, Erin married Mike Finizio at La Posada……Your Palace Avenue residence was home base for Mike and his buddies during the wedding week-end. i’ve been keeping up with and enjoying your posts……and thinking you might appreciate Erin’s blog ~ “EMpowered Times”….thoughts on life and living. i think it’s great and very inspiring”. i just wanted to say “Congratulations!” on the publishing of your book…i bought one for Mike as a Christmas gift. I’m sure he’ll find it most interesting ~ and maybe he’ll share after he’s finished!
Again, congratulations and best wishes for great success! Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah, with warm wishes for a 2017 of hope and contentment.
iana Mason
SF NM
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Of course I remember-the greatest family ever! So touched you bought my book for Mike. I’ll be having a few book signings in Santa Fe, and will put you on the invitation list. Thank you for writing. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you as well.
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