2004 Spring Life Stories

January 28, 2014

Lawrence Weschler

Lawrence Weschler has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since the early eighties, where his work has stuttled between political tragedies and cultural comedies. He is a two-time […]

Gabor Kalman

Gabor Kalman is an award–winning documentary filmmaker. Born in Hungary, he came to the United States in 1956, where he first studied sciences at the University of California at Berkeley, […]

Azar Nafisi

Azar Nafisi, a best-selling writer and internatioin activist on behalf of women’s rights and democracy, speaks and writes from her life experience as a college professor in Iran during and […]

Mai Elliott, a graduate of Georgetown University and resident of Claremont, California, was born and raised in Vietnam. Upon graduating from Georgetown, she returned to Saigon, where she worked for […]

Liza Dalby

Liza Dalby is an anthropologist specializing in Japanese culture. In her first book, Geisha (1983), she drew on her experiences as a novice geisha to present the insider’s view of […]

Sheila Ganz

Sheila Ganz, Producer/Writer/Director/Editor of Unlocking the Heart of Adoption, is also a painter, sculptor, poet, playwright, teacher, and birthmother. In 1968, at twenty years of age, she was raped, became […]

Robert A. Rosenstone

Robert A. Rosenstone has published works of history, biography, and criticism, along with imaginative forms of writing– a family memoir entitled The Man Who Swam Into History (2002), and a […]

Tobias Wolff

Tobias Wolff, master of the memoir and the short story, has just published his first novel, Old School (November 2003), the story of a working class boy who weeks to […]