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Michael Krasny is host and senior editor of KQED-FM radio's award-winning Forum, a news and public affairs program covering politics, culture, the arts, health, business and technology. Krasny has served as the host of Forum since 1993.

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. He went on to host a popular radio program on KGO from 1984 to December 1992. He became the host of Forum in 1993, expanding the focus of the program to more national themes.

Krasny is a professor of English at San Francisco State University where he has taught primarily American literature since 1970. He received his B.A. cum laude in 1966 and M.A. in 1967 from Ohio University, where he is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He holds a Ph.D. in twentieth century American literature from the University of Wisconsin—Madison.

Krasny is a widely published scholar and 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.

Krasny is a long-time resident of Greenbrae, California.SFSU Online Magazine (Volume 4, Number 1, Fall/Winter 2003, http://www.sfsu.edu/~sfsumag/archive/fall_winter_03/krasny.html) reports that Krasny's wife is an attorney, an alumna of San Francisco State University, and that Krasny has two daughters. On his Forum show, Krasny has over the years made repeated references to one or the other of his daughters. Despite his intellectual reputation today, Krasny admits to having had a "bad boy" reputation while growing up in Cleveland Heights, OHMichael is among the outstanding graduates of Cleveland Heights High featured in the book Every Tiger Has a Tale.'

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Total Books: 8
Let There Be Laughter Treasury of the World's Greatest Jewish Jokes and What They Mean
Let There Be Laughter A Treasury of Great Jewish Humor and What It Means
Spiritual Envy An Agnostic's Quest
2011 - Spiritual Envy an Agnostic's Quest (Paperback)Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9781608680696
ISBN-10: 160868069X
Genres: Biographies & Memoirs, Religion & Spirituality, Nonfiction
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Spiritual Envy An Agnostic's Quest
2010 - Spiritual Envy an Agnostic's Quest (Hardcover)Paperback
ISBN-13: 9781577319122
ISBN-10: 1577319125
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Sound Ideas
2009 - Sound Ideas (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780073533254
ISBN-10: 0073533254
Genre: Reference
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Off Mike A Memoir of Talk Radio and Literary Life
2009 - Off Mike a Memoir of Talk Radio and Literary Life [Stanford General Books] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780804763370
ISBN-10: 0804763372
Genre: Biographies & Memoirs
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Off Mike A Memoir of Talk Radio and Literary Life
2007 - Off Mike a Memoir of Talk Radio and Literary Life (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780804756716
ISBN-10: 0804756716
Genres: Biographies & Memoirs, Humor & Entertainment
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The Great Courses Masterpieces of Short Fiction
The Great Courses Masterpieces of Short Fiction (Audio CD)
ISBN-13: 9781598034394
ISBN-10: 1598034391
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