Friday, June 19th, 2009
Bill during the Iliad Bookshop move in 2006
We were very sorry to learn this week of the passing of our colleague, former employee and friend Bill Tunilla. For more than 20 years Bill ran the House of Fiction Bookshop in Pasadena before joining Iliad’s staff in 2001. Bill had been a film editor prior to becoming a bookseller, but books were in his blood and House of Fiction was a popular gathering place for Southern California’s literati. Bill left Iliad in 2007 due to illness, and he passed away peacefully in his sleep on Tuesday, June 16, 2009. Bill was a baseball and Civil War fan, he loved cats and books, and he possessed a sly wit and sharp mind.
He’ll be very much missed in the Los Angeles book community.
