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Margaret Leslie Davis is the author of three acclaimed biographies of important American empire builders: Golden Spur Award-winner Rivers in the Desert: William Mulholland and the Inventing of Los Angeles (HarperCollins), Los Angeles Times bestseller Dark Side of Fortune: Triumph and Scandal in the Life of Oil Tycoon Edward Doheny (University of California Press), and The Culture Broker: Franklin Murphy and the Transformation of Los Angeles (University of California Press). Her newest book, Mona Lisa in Camelot: How Jacqueline Kennedy and Da Vinci’s Masterpiece Charmed and Captivated a Nation (Perseus), chronicles the Mona Lisa’s voyage to America in 1963 and the critical role Jackie Kennedy played in America’s first blockbuster museum show. The book has been excerpted in Vanity Fair, showcased on ABC’s “Good Morning America,” and featured in the London Sunday Times. Her forthcoming books include the Fifty Year History of the Los Angeles Music Center published by the Huntington Library and The Lost Gutenberg for Penguin Random House.