LITERATURE

Rae Armantrout, Poet - Reading and Book Signing

Presented by Center for Literary Arts San Jose State University at Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library

February 15, 2012

Rae Armantrout is the author of eleven books of poetry, including the forthcoming Money Shot, and the 2009 collection Versed, which received both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her collection Next Life was a New York Times Notable Book of 2007. She is the recipient of awards from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation, and Professor of Poetry and Poetics at U.C. San Diego.

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Yiyun Li - Reading and Book Signing

Presented by Center for Literary Arts San Jose State University at San Jose State University - Engineering Building Auditorium

March 7, 2012

Yiyun Li grew up in Beijing and emigrated to the U.S. in 1996. She is the author of the story collections A Thousand Years of Good Prayers and Gold Boy, Emerald Girl, and the novel The Vagrants. Named by The New Yorker as one of the Top 20 writers under 40, Li has received the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, the PEN/Hemingway Award, the Guardian First Book Award, and the California Book Award, as well as a 2010 MacArthur Foundation Fellowship.

Julie Scheeres, The 2012 Lurie Distinguished Visiting Writer - Reading and Book Signing

Presented by Center for Literary Arts San Jose State University at Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library

March 21, 2012

Julia Scheeres is the author of the bestselling memoir Jesus Land, which won the Alex Award from the American Library Association and the New Visions Nonfiction Book Award. Her journalism has appeared in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, Wired News, and L.A. Weekly. Her second book, A Thousand Lives: The Untold Story of Hope, Deception and Survival at Jonestown, will be published in October.

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