Prof. Barbara Lane — Barbara Lane is the former book columnist at the San Francisco Chronicle. She is the former host of the BAYTV program “Bookmark,” director of Lectures and Literature at the Commonwealth Club, director of Arts & Ideas at the JCCSF, and book reviewer for NPR and several newspapers. She has conducted interviews on television and in front of live audiences for City Arts & Ideas, Green Apple Books, Book Passage, the Commonwealth Club and the JCCSF. Lane is a graduate of Stanford University and the recipient of a William Benton fellowship from the University of Chicago.