Kevin Starr

Kevin Starr received a B.A. from the University of San Francisco, an M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University, and a Master of Library Science from the University of California, Berkeley. From 1994 to 2004 he served as the State Librarian of California. He also was a University Professor and a Professorof History at the University of Southern California. Starr's many articles and books, including his Americans and the California Dream series, earned him a Guggenheim Fellowship, election to the Society of American Historians and the American Antiquarian Society, the Presidential Medallion of the University of Southern California, the Centennial Medal of the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and the National Humanities Medal.