Books by Victoria Kastner

Victoria Kastner is Hearst Castle's historian and has written and lectured about San Simeon's land and buildings for nearly thirty years. She is the author of Abrams' Hearst Castle: The Biography of a Country House (2000) and Hearst's San Simeon: The Gardens and the Land (2009). She lives in Los Osos, California. Stephen Hearst, the great grandson of William Randolph Hearst, is vice president and general manager of Western Properties in the Hearst Corporation.