About the Author

Chris Epting is the author of eight travel/history books, including Elvis Presley Passed Here, James Dean Died Here, Roadside Baseball and most recently, The Ruby Slippers, Madonna's Bra and Einstein's Brain -- The Locations of America's Pop Culture Artifacts. He has contributed articles for such publications as the Los Angeles Times, Westways and Travel + Lesiure magazine, and is the Travel Editor for Chicken Soup for the Soul Magazine.

He is also the national spokesman for Hampton Inn hotel's Hidden Landmarks program and writes and voices a weekly series of vignettes for Major League Baseball Radio.

Originally from New York, Chris now lives in Huntington Beach, California with his wife and their two children.

About the Book
This amazing portrait of the bizarre, shocking, weird, and wonderful moments that have come to define American popular culture is a follow-up to the critically acclaimed James Dean Died Here and Marilyn Monroe Dyed Here. A third collection of the locations where the most significant events in American popular culture took place, this offers a fully illustrated encyclopedic look at the most famous--and infamous--pop culture events, providing historical information on more than 600 landmarks as well as their exact locations. Included in the wacky and fantastic listing of landmarks and events are the birthplaces of Coca-Cola and the corn dog, the place where Ben Franklin flew a kite, the hotel where Rob Lowe's scandalous sex tape was filmed, Quentin Tarantino's video store, and the location where Tennessee Williams wrote A Streetcar Named Desire.