Kevin Smokler

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Kevin Smokler is one of the nation’s leading thinkers on the future of contemporary literature, publishing and the arts at large. He is the founder of The Virtual Book Tour…

Jennifer Leo

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  Jennifer L. Leo is a Chinese-American who was born with a gift for gab and a hunger for an everlasting craps game (which probably explains her recent move to…

Firoozeh Dumas

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Firoozeh Dumas moved with her family from Abadan, Iran, to Whittier, California, at the age of seven. With great humor and a sense of adventure, Dumas chronicles the American journey…

Georgia I. Hesse

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Georgia I. Hesse was founding travel editor of the San Francisco Examiner and held that position on the S.F. Examiner-Chronicle for 20 years. She has contributed to several anthologies, is…

Sheldon Siegel

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Sheldon Siegel graduated from the Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California at Berkeley in 1983. He has been in private practice in San Francisco for over…

Larry Habegger

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Larry Habegger, executive editor of Travelers’ Tales, has been writing about travel since 1980. He has visited almost fifty countries and six of the seven continents, traveling from the frozen…

Oscar Villalon

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Oscar Villalon has been the Book Editor for the San Francisco Chronicle since 2001. He has been with the paper since 1996, and has been Deputy Book Editor and a…

Constance Hale

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Journalist Constance Hale grew up in Hawaii but left the islands to get a bachelors degree from Princeton and a masters from the Graduate School of Journalism at UC-Berkeley. Hale…

Fran Gage

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Fran Gage owned Fran Gage Pâtisserie Française in San Francisco for ten years. The bakery consistently won critical acclaim locally and nationally for its pastry, bread, and chocolates. She closed…

Michael Johnson

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For over 20 Years Michael Johnson has been training people to do good in public radio. But baby, that’s not all. Michael’s produced music shows for 13 years on KALW…