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Todd London is the senior vice president of post production at Walt Disney Motion Pictures and 20th Century Studios. Films he has worked on over 40 films including The Jungle Book, Beauty and the Beast, Saving Mr. Banks.
Heralded by Publisher's Weekly as "a writer to watch" with a "magnificent sense of character and ear for dialogue," Todd London is an award-winning novelist and essayist, whose second novel, If You See Him, Let Me Know, was published this February by Austin Macauley.
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Todd London is a master conjurer of the lost—of lost youth, lost promise, lost Chicago, lost America. In If You See Him, Let Me Know , London has penned a memorably bittersweet and heartfelt love letter to a bygone age that feels both immediate and timeless , infused with both hope and regret.
Todd London, contemporary American Theater stands on a solid foundation because of your decades of hard work developing new playwrights and theatre professionals. By blending your love of theatre and writing, you became one of the country’s most influential voices on the importance of theater and arts in our world.
- ‘You Can’T Write A Novel on Deadline’
- You’Ll Never Walk Alone
- When History Comes Calling
- Literary Paths
TZ: I know all too well what it’s like to have one particular book project take years, even decades to complete, no matter how productive or prolific you might be more generally. When did you start working on If Your See Him, Let Me Know, and what challenges did you face in finishing it? TL: There are two answers to the when question: the first is ...
TZ: If You See Him… largely takes place in a fictionalized version of a summer theatre camp run by two actress sisters, who are based on the real-life pair Pearl and Sulie Harand. I recognize many of my own memories in your re-telling. I also recognize many other characters, events, and other details—although I’m not sure whether these memories are...
TZ: One character takes on the persona of Anne Frank during her last summer at camp—a particularly poignant image as many of us “shelter in place” during the Covid-19 pandemic. Outside camp, too, much of the story involves the scars of Holocaust survivors and WWII vets. How do you see the relationship between these painful historic events and subur...
TZ: You published this novel with British publisher Austin Macauley and mention how helpful their team was in your acknowledgements. (The editor in me immediately noticed the British punctuation, but I got over it.) What exactly is a hybrid publisher, and would you recommend that other writers consider it? Also, I see on your websitethat you have t...
Todd London has 16 books on Goodreads with 3213 ratings. Todd London’s most popular book is This Is Not My Memoir.
Feb 28, 2020 · Todd London brilliantly captures the world of a theatre summer camp in the early 70’s - the kids and adults who take it so seriously - the depth, tenderness, and fragility of this tight knit summer community - the way the different generations bounce off each other - and how history shapes who we grow up to be.
