Julia Meltzer Browse All Authors Famous Quotes by Julia Meltzer Her characters are mostly black women or brown people living in a world that is deeply problematic, and it's a different underbelly than you would get in the typical L.A. crime novel, just because of who she was and what she experienced, she writes about L.A. in a different way than you would get in a Raymond Chandler novel. Julia Meltzer top-news