Michael Krasny (talk show host)
Script error: No such module "Other people". Script error: No such module "Template wrapper".Script error: No such module "Check for clobbered parameters".
Michael Jay Krasny (born September 22, 1944) is a professor and retired American radio host of Forum, a news and public affairs program on San Francisco public radio station KQED-FM, covering current events, politics, and culture from 1993 to 2021.[1][2] Additionally, Krasny is currently a professor of English literature at San Francisco State University.
Early life
Born in Cleveland and raised in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, Krasny is a second-generation American whose grandparents immigrated from Russia and Lithuania and grew up in a Jewish household.[3][4]
Michael is among the outstanding graduates of Cleveland Heights High School (class of 1962) featured in the book Every Tiger Has a Tale.[5] Despite his intellectual reputation today, Krasny admits to having had a "bad boy" reputation while growing up in Cleveland Heights.[6]
Career
In the late 1970s, Krasny hosted a weekly Marin County talk show called "Beyond the Hot Tub" on low-power rock radio station KTIM-FM.[7][8] He went on to host a popular radio program on KGO (AM) from 1984 to December 1992.[9] He became the host of Forum in 1993, expanding the focus of the program to more national themes.[10] On November 9, 2020, Krasny announced that he would retire from Forum on February 15, 2021.[11] His last Forum broadcast was on February 12, 2021.
Krasny is a professor of English at San Francisco State University where he has taught primarily American literature since 1970.[2] He received his B.A. cum laude in 1966 and M.A. in 1967 from Ohio University, where he attended the Honors College and became a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He holds a Ph.D. in 20th century American literature from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.[2]
Krasny is a widely published scholar, critic and fiction writer. He has also worked widely as a facilitator and host in the corporate sector and as a moderator for nonprofit events.[2]
Personal life
Krasny is a long-time resident of Greenbrae, California.[7] SFSU Online Magazine reports that Krasny's wife is an attorney and an alumna of San Francisco State University, and that Krasny has two daughters.[12]
In his 2010 book, Spiritual Envy, Krasny revealed that he became agnostic later in life.[3]
Bibliography
- Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
References
<templatestyles src="Reflist/styles.css" />
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ a b c d Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ a b Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Fresh Dialogues interview with Alison van Diggelen, April 2009/
- ↑ a b Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
External links
- Official Michael Krasny website
- Michael Krasny biography at KQED-FM
- Office Hours: Focus on Michael Krasny
- Michael Krasny faculty profile at San Francisco State University
- Forum official webpage
- 2011 Interview with Michael Krasny
- Template:Trim Template:Replace on YouTubeScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
- Pages with script errors
- American agnostics
- American memoirists
- American short story writers
- American talk radio hosts
- American television talk show hosts
- American male journalists
- Jewish American journalists
- Journalists from the San Francisco Bay Area
- San Francisco State University faculty
- Writers from Ohio
- University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Letters and Science alumni
- Ohio University alumni
- Radio personalities from San Francisco
- Television personalities from San Francisco
- American male short story writers
- People from Greenbrae, California
- American people of Lithuanian-Jewish descent
- American people of Russian-Jewish descent
- Jewish agnostics
- People from Cleveland Heights, Ohio
- Cleveland Heights High School alumni
- 1944 births
- Living people