D.G.Wills Books

7461 Girard Avenue, La Jolla, Ca. 92037 (858)456-1800

HOURS: Monday-Saturday 10am-5pm; Sunday 11am-5pm

La Jolla's largest collection of new and used scholarly books; and home of the La Jolla Cultural Society.

Visit the D.G.Wills Books YouTube Channel, featuring past appearances by Norman Mailer, Gore Vidal, Maureen Dowd, Freeman Dyson, Allen Ginsberg, Christopher Hitchens, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Gary Snyder, Michael McClure, Billy Collins, Iris Chang, Patricia Neal with Stephen Michael Shearer, Edward Albee, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Oliver Stone, Sean Penn, and Senator Byron L. Dorgan.

D.G.Wills Books events on Book TV, C-SPAN:

Professor Yunte Huang discussing his book Charlie Chan.

Journalist Dave Zirin discusses his book Welcome to the Terrordome.

D.G.Wills Books events on UCSD TV:
Professor Robert Polito and Patricia Patterson discussing

Farber on Film:The Complete Film Writing of Manny Farber.

Professor Andrew Feenberg discussing his collection The Essential Marcuse.

D.G.Wills Books events on TSN: THE SCIENCE NETWORK:
Professor V.S. Ramachandran dicusses his book The Tell Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human.

Professor Lawrence M. Krauss discusses his book Quantum Man: Richard Feynman's Life In Science.

Previous Events at D.G.Wills Books

Christopher Hitchens

Oscar-Winning Actor Sean Penn

Oscar-Winning Director Oliver Stone

Historian and Churchill biographer Sir Martin Gilbert

Vogue magazine photo of Francoise Gilot at the original store

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Nobel Laureate Gerald Edelman, Director of the Neurosciences Institute, with U.C. Berkeley philosopher John Searle with Mrs. Searle

Nobel Laureate Manfred Eigen

Noted editor Robert Weil, editing a Patricia Highsmith manuscript for W.W. Norton & Co.

N. Parthasarathi, Indian Consul General, San Francisco; and Nirupama Rao, Ambassador of India to the U.S.

Loeb Classical Library and Western Philosophy wall

Previous Events at D.G.Wills Books

NORMAN MAILER, l995

Ted Burke, Norman Mailer, Dennis Wills

Allen Ginsberg, l994

The New York Times Pulitzer Prize Columnist Maureen Dowd

Jill Abramson, Executive Editor, The New York Times, with Maureen Dowd

Billy Collins, Poet Laureate of the United States, 2001-2003

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Gore Vidal, November 2005

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Gore Vidal with Professor Dennis Altman

Gore Vidal, March l998, with noted South African playwright Athol Fugard in audience

Nobel Laureate Francis Crick, February 1995

James D. Watson and Francis Crick with their model of the DNA molecule, the Double Helix, at Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge University, l953

Nobel Laureate James D. Watson, September 2007

Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott

Nobel Laureate Kary Mullis

Three & One-Half Time Pulitzer Prize Playwright Edward Albee

Pulitzer Prize Poet Gary Snyder

Pulitzer Prize poet Gary Snyder

Oscar-Winning Actress Patricia Neal with her biographer Stephen Michael Shearer

Patricia Neal holding a model of "Gort" from the science fiction film classic "The Day the Earth Stood Still"

Richard C. Atkinson, President Emeritus of the University of California, former UCSD Chancellor and former Director of the National Science Foundation

Renowned scientist Freeman Dyson

Freeman Dyson with Mrs. Dyson

A visit from Oscar Nominated and Emmy Award Winning Actor Paul Giamatti

A visit from Jim Belushi, 2003

Jim Belushi at the original store, l988

Claude Picasso and Francoise Gilot

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