Richard Sullivan

Hawaii resident and award-winning Hawaii guide book author Richard Sullivan has trekked every corner of Maui, Oahu, Kauai, Molokai, and The Big Island countless times over the past 30 years -- and, as a long-time Los Angeles Times Sunday Magazine photographer, most of California as well.

Richard Sullivan is also the author of the family saga The First Ward based on the actual members of his ancestral family and the historical events in which they participated:

-The First Ward, Volume 1 features the author's great-grandfather's relationship with famed author Mark Twain. The nefarious oligarch Fingy Conners, America's most hateful least-known villain, is at the series' center.

-The First Ward, Volume 2: Fingy Conners And The New Century continues the unbelievable story of one of America's darkest millionaire-psychopaths and the Sullivan's extended family's attempts to survive his machinations.

-The First Ward, Volume 3: A horrific child murder polarizes the city as police ineptitude is made painfully evident. Fingy Conners doubles down on his control of everything and everyone in the city.

-The First Ward, Volume 4 finds a serial killer of children taking refuge in Buffalo where his most infamous crime takes place. Fingy Conners sets his sights on the White House.

Additional books:

Driving & Discovering Oahu - Sullivan's award-winning photo guidebook to Hawaii's principal and beach-rich island.

Driving & Discovering Maui and Molokai - continues the explortion in great detail and beautiful photography of the Hawaiian Islands of Maui and Molokai.

-Reclaim Your Youth: Growing Younger After 40, promotes strength training as the only genuine way to rebuild lost lean muscle and bone mass in both men and women.

-Family Tree Secrets & Genealogy Search Tips, a how-to guide to discovering the saints and sinners in your family tree with author's narrative outlining how one small clue can lead to major discoveries.

Richard Sullivan has explored multifarious island terrain ranging from the old growth koa forests on the flanks of Mauna Loa on the Big Island, to the miles of unpeopled sunny white sand beaches on sparsely-populated Molokai, to idyllic deserted island bays that most Hawaii residents don't even know about. Richard Sullivan has walked, swum, paddled, climbed and helicoptered his way up, down and around every Hawaiian Island time and again since 1985 in his quest to create the finest photographic images for his award-winning Driving & Discovering Hawaii guidebook series, Driving & Discovering Oahu and Driving & Discovering Maui & Molokai.