Larry L. Meyer
Meyer in his garden, 2023
Alma mater	University of California, Los Angeles
Occupation(s)	Journalist, author, writer, educator
Children	6
Website	www.larrylmeyer.com

Larry L. Meyer is an American journalist, author and academic. He is the former editor-in-chief of Westways, the magazine of the Automobile Club of Southern California, and a professor emeritus of journalism at California State University, Long Beach. He is a 1959 cum laude graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he was president of his graduate class, and earned a master's degree in journalism at UCLA in 1960.^[1]

Meyer is a longtime resident of Huntington Beach, California. In the early 1980s, divorced from a 21-year marriage, Meyer married one of his journalism students.^[2] After two children with her and in his late 50s, he retired from teaching to become a stay-at-home father to an unexpected sixth child and to support his wife's career.^[3] These experiences became the basis for two of his books, My Summer With Molly and No Paltry Thing,^[2][3] both self-published through a small publishing company he founded, Calafia Press.^[4]

Meyer's books include:

• Meyer, Larry L. (1975). Shadow of a Continent: The Prize That Lay to the West, 1776. American West Publishing Co. ISBN 0910118620.^[5]
• —— (1977). California Quake. Sherbourne Press. ISBN 0820201340.
• ——; Kalayjian, Patricia L. (1983). Long Beach: Fortune's Harbor. Continental Heritage Press. ISBN 0932986374.^[6]
• —— (1987). The Complete Works of Marcus Uteris: A Novel. Calafia Press. ISBN 0942273036.
• —— (1989). My Summer With Molly: The Journal of a Second Generation Father. Calafia Press. ISBN 0942273044.^[7]
• —— (2005). No Paltry Thing: Memoirs of a Geezer Dad. Calafia Press. ISBN 0942273052.^[8]
• Jurmain, Claudia; Lavender, David; —— (2011). Rancho Los Alamitos: Ever Changing, Always the Same. Heyday. ISBN 978-1597141482.^[9]