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Paul Golis (1917-2003 )

City or Town: Rohnert Park, Santa Rosa
Geographic Metadata Source: GNIS
Country: United States
State or Province: California
California County: Sonoma
Street Address: Rohnert Park, California
Latitude: 38.34804791
Geocoding Status: Approximate geocoding
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Map Zoom Level: 13
SC Local Arts Artist ID: paul_golis
Digital Collections Area Group(s): Local Arts
Longitude: -122.696395
Author Birth Date: 1917
Author Last Name: Golis
Author Name: Paul Golis (1917-2003 )
Author First Name, MI: Paul
Author Death Date: 2003
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Author's Place(s) of Residence: Santa Rosa, Rohnert Park
Author Genre(s): Autobiographical fiction
Author Profile: Golis, known as the father of Rohnert Park, was a self-made man, known for his brilliant mind, combative style, eloquence and tenacity. He was part urban visionary and part capitalist who saw a city rising from marginally productive farmland that he and his partner, Maurice Fredericks, bought for $200 an acre in the 1950s. A lawyer by profession, Golis moved to Santa Rosa in 1947 and learned the art of land development as the chief legal adviser to budding Santa Rosa shopping center developer Hugh Codding. Founding Rohnert Park was just one of Golis' wide-ranging ventures. He made an unsuccessful Democratic bid for the North Coast's 1st Congressional District seat in 1952, ran unsuccessfully for Rohnert Park's City Council in 1972, mounted a criminal defense of Arthur Carnine, one of the most celebrated murderers in Santa Rosa's history, and owned two restaurants. He loved the written word and was known for his poetry and biting commentary. He founded and published the Montgomery Village News in Codding's new Montgomery Village and later published the short-lived Rohnert Park News in the early 1970s. He published two books and had two plays staged in Los Angeles. One of his books, "The Odyssey of the Patricia," is a fictionalized account of his family's sailing trip from San Francisco to Mexico.
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Significant Title: The odyssey of the Patricia
Digital Collections Identifier: paul_golis
Digital Collection Name(s): Sonoma County Local Authors
Date Added: 2019/10/16
Filename: paul_golis.jpg
Title: Paul Golis (1917-2003 )
Item Type: Text
Item Format or Genre: Biography files, Bibliographies, Portraits, Photographs
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Collection(s): Sonoma County Local Authors
Author Name (Controlled): Paul Golis (1917-2003 )

IIIF manifest: https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/sonomalibrary/iiif/79ec7735-73ef-4666-9c9d-7b67f6c8b966/manifest

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