Date:  April 2, 2008

Contact:  Robert Graves, Public Services Librarian

Phone:  (310) 458-2201, x5956

Santa Monica, California – The Santa Monica Public Library presents an evening celebrating legendary rebel surfer, Miki Dora, with author David Rensin and Surfer editor, Chris Mauro.  The event will take place Thursday, April 17, 2008, at 7:00 p.m., in the Main Library’s Martin Luther King, Jr. Auditorium, 601 Santa Monica Blvd.  

For most of the 1950’s and 1960’s, at the perfect surfing spot, on the perfect day, Miki Dora was probably the best surfer in the world. For the rest of his life Dora remained surfing’s most enduring mystery. In his heyday and Malibu’s, where he reigned as king, Dora not only dominated surfing style and soul, but transcended both. His God-given gifts in the water, coupled with the living theater of his complicated, comic, non-conformist personality on and beyond the beach, made him what his peers could never be: a legend in his own time. 

Author David Rensin and Surfer magazine editor Chris Mauro will discuss Rensin’s new biography of Dora, All for a Few Perfect Waves: the Audacious Life & Legend of Rebel Surfer Miki Dora.  An audience Q&A and film clips of Dora in action will follow.  

On site book sales provided by Barnes & Noble.  Admission is free.  Seating is limited, and on a first arrival basis. 

For more information, contact the Santa Monica Public Library at (310) 458-8600; or visit the Library’s web site at www.smpl.org.