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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 and The Eugene Block Award for Human Rights
Journalism. 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.
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