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'Lessons From My Teachers' with Sarah Ruhl on Access Utah

The cover of "Lessons from My Teachers" by Sarah Ruhl features illustrations of a highchair, a school chair with an attached desk, and a cushioned living room chair.
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On this episode, we talk with critically acclaimed author, MacArthur genius, two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, and Tony Award–nominated playwright and author, Sarah Ruhl, about her new book.

"Lessons From My Teachers" is an essay collection based on her popular class at Yale. It is a meditation on the life-altering bonds between teacher and student and the wisdom imparted both inside and outside the classroom.

Sarah Ruhl is a playwright, essayist, and poet. Her fifteen plays include "In the Next Room (or the Vibrator Play)," "The Clean House," and "Eurydice." Her book "100 Essays I Don’t Have Time to Write" was a New York Times Notable Book. Her other books include "Letters from Max," with Max Ritvo, and "44 Poems for You." "The Dreams I’ll Dream Tonight" is her debut picture book. She teaches at the Yale School of Drama, and she lives in Brooklyn with her husband, Tony Charuvastra, who is a child psychiatrist, and their three children.

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Tom Williams worked as a part-time UPR announcer for a few years and joined Utah Public Radio full-time in 1996. He is a proud graduate of Uintah High School in Vernal and Utah State University (B. A. in Liberal Arts and Master of Business Administration.) He grew up in a family that regularly discussed everything from opera to religion to politics. He is interested in just about everything and loves to engage people in conversation, so you could say he has found the perfect job as host “Access Utah.” He and his wife Becky, live in Logan.