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Author Geoffrey Wolff In Conversation with Tobias Wolff

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

April 18, 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...