Samuels, Lawrence

Biography / Administrative History

Lawrence K. Samuels is editor and a contributing author of Facets of Liberty: A Libertarian Primer . He serves as the Northern California vice chair of the Libertarian Party. He also co-chairs Monterey County Libertarians for Peace.

Lawrence K. Samuels won honorable mention at the East of Eden Writers Conference in 2002 for his historical novel Ferret: The Reluctant King . He is a member of the California Writers Club and was the editor of Rampart Institute's quarterly magazine in the early 1980s.

Samuels is a graduate of California State University at Fullerton (1976), where he minored in journalism. He was the editor-in-chief and a columnist for the campus newspaper at Fullerton College. He later wrote guest columns for the Orange County Register, the third largest newspaper in California. He managed the Future of Freedom Conference series for five years in Southern California, arranging speaking engagements for Timothy Leary, Ray Bradbury, Arthur Laffer, Karl Hess, Nathaniel Brandon, and dozens of other scholars and writers.

From the guide to the Lawrence Samuels collection, 1950-1991, (Hoover Institution Archives)