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Esther McCoy is the author of the books "Five California Architects," "Richard Neutra," and "Arts & Architecture Case Study Houses."  Her catalogues for architectural exhibitions include ones on Felix Candela, Roots of California Contemporary Architecture, Juan O'Gorman's mosaics, Irving Grill and, most recently, "Ten Italian Architects" for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, a show now being circulated by the Smithsonian Institution.  She wrote the introduction to the catalogue for the current full retrospective show on R.M. Schindler.  She has written widely on the work of young architects, and received a Ford Foundation grant in 1964 to study the work of the young in the U.S.  Some of her surveys of American architecture have appeared in Lotus, Zodiac and L'architettura.  She is an associate editor of Arts & Architecture, and a lecturer at UCLA School of Architecture and Urban Planning.  In 1967, she was [[strikethrough]] appointed a [[Regents'?]] Lecturer at UC Santa Barbara.  The Republic of Italy awarded her the Stella della Solidarietá in 1961 for her writings on arts, crafts and industrial design of Italy.  She has published short stories and novellas in The New Yorker, Evergreen Review, Harper's Bazaar and literary quarterlies.  [[strikethrough]] [[strikethrough]]  In 1965, she produced a film, "The Dodge House," under an Edgar F Kaufmann grant.