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.

MAFIA BOOKS FOR SALE


BOOKS FOR SALE FROM MY RESEARCH COLLECTION. BASED IN NEW YORK. PREFERRED SALE OF FIVE OR MORE. HARDBACK $14.00 SB $6.00 + MEDIA MAIL. INDIVIDUAL PHOTOS ON REQUEST.

 Luellen Smiley – Some book sections are highlighted but otherwise in good condition. Bugsy Siegel’s book, Mr. Mob & King of the Sunset Strip, sold.

  1. THE BATTLE FOR LAS VEGAS SB  – DENNIS GRIFFIN
  2.  BUT HE WAS GOOD TO HIS MOTHER –  SB R. ROCKAWAY
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  4. MOTOR CITY MAFIA SB – SCOTT  M. BURSTEIN
  5. THE BOYS FROM NEW JERSEY SB – ROBERT RUDOLPH
  6. CHICAGO HB- DAVID MAMET
  7. DOUBLE CROSS- HB SAM & CHUCK GIANCANA
  8. GANGSTERS AND GOODFELLAS HB AS TOLD BY GUSS RUSSO
  11. THE STARKER HB – JACK ZELIG ROSE KEEFE
  12. MOBBED UP  HB – JAMES NEFF
  14. BOUND BY HONOR HB –  BILL BONNANO
  16. THE PUBLIC ENEMY  SB – HENRY COHEN SCRIPT
  17. NAZIS IN NEWARK SB- WARREN GROVER
  18. THE VALACHI PAPERS  PETER MAAS
  19. BLOOD RELATION SB – ERIC KONICSBERG 
  20. THE OUTFIT SB – GUSS RUSSO
  21. TOUGH JEWS – SB RICH COHEN
  22. THE MAFIA MURDER OF JFK CONTRACT ON AMERICA-HB DAVID SCHEIM
  23. ORGANIZED CRIME HB – PAUL LINDE
  24. CAPONE HB- JOHN KOLER
  25. LITERARY LAS VEGAS  SB -The best writing about America’s Finest City  MIKE TRONNES 
  26. HONOR THY FATHER SB  –  ( MY DAD’S) GAY TELESE
  27. MURDER INC SB BURTON TURKAS – SID FEDER
  28.           THE LAST MAFIAOSO HB –  OVID DEMARIS
  29. ALL AMERICAN MAFIOSO SB- THE JOHNNY ROSELLI STORY  CHARLES RAPPLEYE & ED BECKER. SIGNED.

                                      PICTORIAL BOOKS

FABULOUS LAS VEGAS HB – MICHELE FERRARI  STEVEN IVES

ORGANIZED CRIME- PLAYBOYS PICTORIAL HISTORY HB  RICHARD HANNER

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