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Jorie Graham was born in New York City and spent her childhood in France and Italy. She is the author of seven collections of poetry, including Swarm, The Errancy, The Dream of the Unified Field, which won the Pulitzer Prize, and The End of Beauty. Ms. Graham, who has been honored with a MacArthur Fellowship, teaches at Harvard University. Ms. Graham read on May 20, 1999.

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Michael Silverblatt, a New York native, studied at Johns Hopkins University, where he came under the influence of such cutting-edge author-teachers as Donald Barthelme and John Barth. Dubbed "the best reader in America" by Norman Mailer, he is the host of the literary talk show Bookworm, which he created in 1989 for KCRW 89.9 FM in Santa Monica. He has participated in numerous Readings & Conversations programs, interviewing Gore Vidal, Susan Sontag, Salman Rushdie, and A.S. Byatt, among others. Bookworm airs locally on KSFR 101.1FM every Sunday at 1:30pm.

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