Al Young lives in Berkeley where he was educated and where he graduated from the University of California. His honors include Guggenheim, Wallace Stegner, Fulbright and National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships and the PEN-Library of Congress Award for Short Fiction, the PEN-USA Award for Nonfiction and many others. Young traveled the country and the world spreading the joy.

Al Young suffered a major stroke in 2019; he passed away on April 17, 2021. We miss his voice.