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John Hampsey Interview – Award-Winning Professor on Soda Lake (2025) & Kaufman’s Hill
Welcome to a new edition of the Famous Interviews with Joe Dimino series. On this episode, we talk with award-winning professor and distinguished author John Hampsey.
Dr. Hampsey is a Professor of Romantic and Classical Literature at California Polytechnic State University, where he received the University Distinguished Teaching Award. Earlier in his career, he taught at Boston University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
His acclaimed memoir Kaufman's Hill was called the “best book written on American boyhood in decades” by historian Howard Zinn. In 2025, he completed an…
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