Author Talk with Rex Pickett UC San Diego alumnus and two-time Oscar-winning screenwriter and author Rex Pickett ’76 is featured in an Author Talk on November 9 at 5:30 p.m. in the Ida & Cecil Green Faculty Club at UC San Diego. The discussion will highlight Pickett’s most recent novel, “The Archivist,” a murder mystery that takes a deep dive into the archiving world set in a fictional Geisel Library. About The Author: Rex Pickett is the critically-acclaimed author of the novel Sideways, which was adapted into the award-winning feature film directed by Alexander Payne. Sideways won over 350 plaudits from various critics and film organizations, received five Academy Award nominations and won for Best Adapted Screenplay, received seven Golden Globe nominations and won two for Best Screenplay and Best Musical or Comedy. Rex is the author of two Sideways sequels and the screenwriter of "My Mother Dreams" the "Satan’s Disciples" in New York, which captured the 2000 Academy Award for Best Live Action Short. Additionally, Rex has written and staged the Sideways play four times, most notably with three-time Tony Award winner "Des McAnuff" (Jersey Boys) at the La Jolla Playhouse. His most recent novel "The Archivist" was published in the fall of 2021 by Blackstone Publishing. A southern California native, Rex has written/directed two indie feature films, and the Rex Pickett Papers are held by UC San Diego Library’s Special Collections & Archives. Follow on Twitter!
