MICHAEL KRASNY

MICHAEL KRASNY is host of KQED’s award-winning Forum, a news and public affairs program that concentrates on the arts, culture, health, business and technology. Since 1970 he has been a professor of English at San Francisco State University and is a widely published scholar and critic and a fiction writer. Dr. Krasny has interviewed many of the leading newsmakers and cultural icons of our time, including Saul Bellow, former President Jimmy Carter, Cesar Chavez, Newt Gingrich, Jane Goodall, Rosa Parks, Robert Redford, Salman Rushdie, Susan Sontag, Gloria Steinem and Archbishop Desmond Tutu.

Krasny is the recipient of many awards and honors, including The Sy Agnon Gold Medal for Intellectual Distinction, The Eugene Block Award for Human Rights Journalism, and a Koret Foundation Fellowship. He has also been named best talk show host by Focus Magazine, a number of Bay Area newspapers, The San Francisco Publicity Club and Citysearch. His book, Off Mike: A Memoir of Talk Radio and Literary Life is now available in paperback. Sound Ideas, co-edited with Maggie Sokolik, a textbook, will be released in September and Spiritual Envy in 2010.

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