We’re highlighting Nevadan authors on Humanities at Play! Come meet Las Vegas author Paul W. Papa and learn more about his love of noir fiction, Las Vegas, and more. We’ll spend the first hour of our program playing through the game Genesis Noir before switching to an interactive Q&A and conversation during the second hour. Audience participation is welcome and encouraged!

Paul W. Papa is an award-winning author, having won the prestigious Next Generation Indie Book Award, with his book, Maximum Rossi, and the Will Rogers Medallion Award with his book Desert Dust. Paul is also a two-time finalist for the International Book Awards and a three-time finalist for the Best Book Awards, both from American Book Fest, as well as a finalist for the Indies Today Award.

He is a full-time writer and ghostwriter of both fiction and nonfiction who has lived in Las Vegas for more than thirty years. It was there that he developed a fascination with the area and all its wonders while working for nearly fifteen years at several Las Vegas casinos. In his role as a security officer, Paul was the person who actually shut and locked the doors of the Sands Hotel and Casino for the final time.

He eventually became a hotel investigator for a major Strip casino, during which time he developed a love for writing stories about uncommon events. When not at his keyboard, Paul can be found watching a classic crime noir film, investigating some old building, or sitting in a local diner eating a club sandwich and hunting down his next story.

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