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Celebrity Readers Peter Benchley: author of Shark Trouble; Jaws;The Deep; and others Wendy Benchley: Princeton Borough Councilwoman Karla Cook: restaurant reviewer for The New York Times Lawrence Danson: Professor of English, Princeton University, with focus on Shakespeare and Renaissance drama; film and drama; late 19th-early 20th century literature; author of Tragic Alphabet: Shakespeare's Drama of Language; The Harmonies of "The Merchant of Venice" Freeman Dyson: retired, professor of physics at the Institute for Advanced Studies; author of Disturbing the Universe; Weapons and Hope; Origins of Life; Infinite in All Directions; Imagined Worlds; The Sun, the Genome and the Internet; and others Jane Franklin: author and historian whose recent work includes Cuba and the United States: A Chronological History (from which she will read at Record-A-Thon) and numerous articles; her most important article is "Looking for Terrorists in Cuba's Health System" Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: visiting professor at the Institute for Advanced Studies; W. E. B. Du Bois Professor of the Humanities and Chair of the Department African and African American Studies at Harvard University; author of numerous books, most recently America Behind the Color Line: Dialogues with African Americans Representative Rush Holt: US Congressman, NJ's12th Congressional District; physicist, past Assistant Director of the Princeton University Plasma Physics Laboratory; past honorary chair for RFBD-NJ Unit's Record-A-Thon Brian Hughes: Mercer County Executive Charles H. Johnson: poet (his collection, Tunnel Vision, has just been published); editor of the Home News Tribune, East Brunswick; literacy volunteer in the Paterson, NJ Pubic Schools Gina Kolata: science reporter for The New York Times and the author of several books, including Ultimate Fitness: The Quest for Truth about Health and Exercise and Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus that Caused It Margaret Lancefield, M.D., Director, Out Patient Clinic, University Medical Center at Princeton Michael Lemonick: author of Other Worlds and Light at the End of the Universe; senior science writer for Time Magazine. Emily Mann: McCarter Theatre's artistic director and playwright (Having Our Say, Greensboro (A Requiem), Execution of Justice, Still Life; a collection of her plays, Testimonies: Four Plays, has been published by the Theatre Communications Group, Inc. Paul Muldoon: Howard G. B. Clark '21 Professor in the Humanities at Princeton University; author of numerous books of poetry, drama, essays, and books for children; his volume Moy Sand And Gravel won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize Steven Schultz: science writer for Princeton University's Office of Communications Shirley Tilghman: president, Princeton University; world-renowned scholar and leader in the field of molecular biology C. K. Williams: poet; professor in the Council of the Humanities and Creative Writing at Princeton University; author of The Singing; winner of a Pulitzer Prize for his volume of poetry, Repair; winner of the National Book Critic's Circle Award for Flesh and Blood; translator of five works, including Selected Poems of Francis Ponge. |
