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The 58 pages that link to Los Angeles, each with the reason it gives.

• Fela KutiRelated: Kuti’s 1969 stay there coincided with his growing engagement with Black American politics.

• Raymond ChandlerRelated: Chandler transformed the city’s streets, suburbs, and institutions into a defining fictional landscape.

• Jazz at the PhilharmonicRelated: Granz launched the series there, drawing on the city's jazz scene and concert venues.

• Isamu NoguchiRelated: Noguchi was born in Los Angeles in 1904 to an American mother and Japanese father.

• La La LandRelated: Its streets, hills, and studios make the city both setting and subject of the film.

• Rebel Without a CauseRelated: The city’s streets, observatory, and suburban homes anchor the film’s postwar setting.

• Anthony QuinnRelated: Quinn grew up in Los Angeles after his family moved from Mexico.

• Ornette ColemanRelated: Coleman developed his distinctive sound and met key collaborators in the city’s jazz community.

• André PrevinRelated: After emigrating, Previn grew up and began his film-music career there.

• Dorothy DandridgeRelated: Dandridge grew up there as Hollywood became central to her working life.

• Etta JamesRelated: James grew up there and began performing as a teenager.

• Janet GaynorRelated: Gaynor moved to Los Angeles as a teenager and began pursuing film work there.

• Matt GroeningRelated: Groening moved there in 1977, where he began publishing Life in Hell.

• Philip MarloweRelated: Its neighborhoods and social divides give Marlowe’s investigations their recurring geography.

• Aimee Semple McPhersonRelated: Angelus Temple made the city the base of her ministry and public influence.

• Norman GranzRelated: Granz launched his early concerts in Los Angeles during the 1940s.

• Pancho GonzalesRelated: Gonzales grew up in Los Angeles and developed as a player in its public tennis scene.

• David HockneyRelated: Moving there in the 1960s brought new subjects and color into his work.

• Eddie CochranRelated: Cochran built much of his recording career in the Los Angeles music industry.

• Fay WrayRelated: Wray moved to Los Angeles as a child and began working in films there.

• Jackie CooganRelated: Coogan was born there and began working in the city’s film industry.

• Michael J. FoxRelated: Fox moved there as a teenager to pursue an acting career.

• Patrisse CullorsRelated: Cullors grew up in Los Angeles, where local policing shaped her activism.

• Sam KinisonRelated: Kinison moved to Los Angeles as his comedy career gained momentum.

• Alanis MorissetteRelated: Morissette moved to Los Angeles as she developed the material that became Jagged Little Pill.

• Bret Easton EllisRelated: The city’s affluent youth culture supplies the social landscape of several early novels.

• Charles BukowskiRelated: Its streets, bars, workplaces, and neighborhoods supply the geography of his fiction.

• Dexter GordonRelated: Its Central Avenue jazz scene fostered Gordon’s early collaborations and bebop performances.

• Erle Stanley GardnerRelated: Gardner practiced law and set many Perry Mason cases in the city.

• Kate HudsonRelated: Hudson was born in Los Angeles, where proximity to the entertainment industry formed part of her early context.

• Kiefer SutherlandRelated: He grew up partly in Los Angeles after his parents separated.

• StrelitziaRelated: The bird-of-paradise flower is the official flower of Los Angeles.

• Behrouz VossoughiRelated: Vossoughi has lived in Los Angeles since leaving Iran after the revolution.

• James EllroyRelated: The city’s history and institutions form the landscape of his best-known fiction.

• Manuel FerraraRelated: Ferrara later built much of his professional career in the American adult-film market.

• Michelle McNamaraRelated: McNamara lived and wrote in Los Angeles, where her interest in crime reporting developed.

• MS-13Related: MS-13 formed in Los Angeles in the 1980s.