Isabel Stirling became active in international librarianship during
her years as science librarian and professor at the University of
Oregon, traveling several times to China and Japan. On one of her
trips to Japan that she was invited to stay at Ryosen-an, where
Ruth Sasaki had developed her formidable library. Stirling is
Associate University Librarian of the University of California,
Berkeley, and makes her home in Sausalito, CA.
Gary Snyder is the author of more than twenty collections of poetry
and prose. Since 1970 he has lived in the watershed of the South
Yuba River in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. Winner of the
Pulitzer Prize in 1975, Snyder has also been awarded the Bollingen
Prize for Poetry and the Robert Kirsch Lifetime Achievement Award.
His 1992 collection, No Nature, was a National Book Award finalist,
and in 2008 he received the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. Snyder is a
poet, environmentalist, educator and Zen Buddhist.
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