Carter WilsonAs a young man Carter Wilson lived in Mayan communities in southern Mexico, learned enough Tsotsil Maya to get by, and wrote and produced a documentary film called "Appeals to Santiago" about an eight-day Mayan religious festival (https: //www.youtub.com/watch?v=HKG94SRJtg4). Later he studied Quechua people's use of leaf coca in Peru on a grant from the U.S. National Institute on Drug Abuse. He has published ethnographic fiction and non-fiction, including two books about Mayan Mexico, a children's novel about Netsilik Inuit of Canada, and a fictional account of the discovery of Machu Picchu in Peru through the eyes of a photographer who at the same time discovers he is gay. Wilson's first novel, CRAZY FEBRUARY, widely adopted in college anthropology courses, has been 60 years in print and now is available in Spanish as FEBRERO LOCO. A gay activist, Wilson wrote the narration for two Oscar-winning documentaries, "The Times of Harvey Milk" (with Judith Coburn) and "Common Threads." He received the Ruth Benedict Prize from the gay section of the American Anthropology Association for his "Hidden in the Blood." He taught at Harvard, Stanford, Tufts University, and for 34 years at the University of California at Santa Cruz.