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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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Juan Felipe Herrera - Reading and Book Signing

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

April 4, 2012

Juan Felipe Herrera is a poet, playwright, young-adult novelist and children's-book author, actor and performance troupe founder. Born in the farm town of Fowler, CA, he went on to earn graduate degrees from UCLA, Stanford, and the Iowa Writers Workshop.

Author of twenty-eight books in various genres, and various musicals, Herrera has been awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the PEN USA and PEN Open Book Awards, and the International Latino Award

Geoffrey Wolff - Reading and Book Signing

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

April 17, 2012

Geoffrey Wolff is the author of six novels, including Providence and The Age of Consent; biographies of Harry Crosby, John O'Hara, and Joshua Slocum; and two memoirs, including The Duke of Deception, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He is the recipient of awards from the N.E.A., the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Guggenheim Foundation. A former book critic for The Washington Post, Wolff directed the Graduate Program in Writing at U.C. Irvine from

Camille Dungy, Poet - Reading and Book Signing

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

November 8, 2011

Camille Dungy is the author of three collections of poetry, including Smith Blue, winner of the 2011 Crab Orchard Open Competition, and the editor of the anthology Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry. A recipient of the Northern California Book Award and the Dana Award, Dungy has received fellowships from the N.E.A., the Virginia Commission for the Arts, and others. She teaches at San Francisco State University.

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Author Daniel Handler (a.k.a. Lemony Snicket) - Stories and Slides

Presented by Center for Literary Arts San Jose State University and San Jose Stage Company at San Jose Stage Theater

October 26, 2011

Daniel Handler is the author of the novels The Basic Eight, Watch Your Mouth, Adverbs, and the forthcoming novel for teens, Why We Broke Up. He also wrote "far too many books" as Lemony Snicket, including 13 Words, a collaboration with Maira Kalman, and the screenplays for the films A Series of Unfortunate Events, Kill the Poor, and Rick. Handler lives in San Francisco with his wife and child.

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Daniel Handler (a.k.a. Lemony Snicket) - Reading and Book Signing

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

October 26, 2011

Daniel Handler is the author of the novels The Basic Eight, Watch Your Mouth, Adverbs, and the forthcoming novel for teens, Why We Broke Up. He also wrote "far too many books" as Lemony Snicket, including 13 Words, a collaboration with Maira Kalman, and the screenplays for the films A Series of Unfortunate Events, Kill the Poor, and Rick. Handler lives in San Francisco with his wife and child.

Melanie Rae Thon, Author - Reading and Book Signing (Litquake South Bay Event)

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

October 11, 2011

Melanie Rae Thon's most recent books are the new novel The Voice of the River and In This Light: New and Selected Stories. She is also the author of three previous novels and two story collections. Thon has received a Whiting Writers Award and two fellowships from the N.E.A. and her work has been anthologized in Best American Short Stories, Pushcart Prize Stories, and O. Henry Prize Stories. Originally from Montana, she now teaches at the University of Utah.

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Andrew Sean Greer, Author - Reading and Book Signing

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

September 14, 2011

Andrew Sean Greer is the bestselling author of four works of fiction, most recently The Story of a Marriage and The Confessions of Max Tivoli. His stories have appeared in Esquire, The Paris Review, and The New Yorker, and he has received the O. Henry Prize, the Northern California Book Award, the California Book Award, the New York Public Library Young Lions Award, and fellowships from the N.E.A. and the New York Public Library.