ABOUT THE AUTHOR Kevin Bruce is a native Californian born in San Francisco in 1941. He has been engaged in many professions, working variously as a musician, Russian interpreter, advertising copywriter, and real estate appraiser. He received a bachelor's degree in business from the University of Nebraska, Omaha, in 1968 and more recently a Master of Liberal Arts degree from Stanford University in 1996. His master's thesis evolved into his first book, The Murals of John Pugh: Beyond Trompe L'oeil, published in 2005. His second book, Large Art in Small Places - discovering the California mural t...