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Author & Participation Bios

FESTIVAL OF BOOKS

April 19, 1998

Since immigrating to the U.S. in 1985, Wu has repeatedly returned to China to secretly film atrocities in its slave labor camps. He is the author of "Bitter Winds: A Memoir of My Years in China's Gulag" with Carolyn Wakeman and "Troublemaker: One Man'sCrusade Against China's Cruelty" with George Vecsey.

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RICHARD YARBOROUGH

African-American Writers: Saturday, 4 p.m.

An English professor at UCLA, Yarborough is also the director of the school's Center of African American Studies. He is co-editor of the "The Heath Anthology of American Literature."

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STEPHEN YENSER

Poetry Corner: Saturday, 12:15 p.m.

Poetry Labels: Saturday, 2:30 p.m.

Yenser is the author of "Circle to Circle: The Poetry of Robert Lowell," "The Consuming Myth: The Work of James Merrill" and a collection of poetry, "The Fire in All Things," which won the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets. He teaches English at UCLA.

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GARY YOUNG

Poetry Corner: Saturday, 2:30 p.m.

Young is a poet and artist whose honors include grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Vogelstein Foundation and the California Arts Council.

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SHAY YOUNGBLOOD

Gay-Lesbian Literature: Saturday, 4 p.m.

Youngblood, author of "Soul Kiss," teaches Creative Writing at the New School for Social Research.

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DAVID ZEIDBERG

Book Collecting: Sunday, 2:30 p.m.

Zeidberg headed UCLA's Special Collections rare books library for 12 years before moving to The Huntington Library.

He is editor of the essays, "Aldus Manutius and Renaissance Culture."

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MAURICE ZEITLIN

Promised Land?: Saturday, 1 p.m.

A professor of sociology at UCLA, Zeitlin is the author, most recently, of "Talking Union" (with J. Stepan-Norris) as well as "The Civil Wars in Chile," "Cuba: An American Tragedy" (with Robert Scheer) and "Landlords & Capitalists" (with R.E. Radcliff).

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