Beau L'Amour

Beau L'Amour is the vice-president of Louis L'Amour Enterprises where he has worked as an literary editor, art director, and marketing director, in cooperation with Bantam Books. Since 1988 Louis L'Amour Enterprises has sold over 100 million copies of the books of Louis L'Amour (300 million since 1955) and nearly 4 million copies of audio productions with Random House Audio Publishing. L'Amour has worked as a supervising producer, writer, and director on over 80 audio-book productions, many created in an "old time radio theater' style. As an art director he has worked on hundreds of book, magazine, and video covers as well as corporate identities. In addition he has won an honorable mention from the American Society of Illustrators for his work as an art director. He also manages the louislamour.com web site. At other times he's been a ghost writer, the producer of a syndicated radio show, manager of a literary magazine, worked in numerous positions on TV commercials, and worked extensively in motion picture sound, both in post and on location. He attended California Institute of the Arts, graduating in 1984.