Jack Dann '69 has published Jack The Rebel: An Imagined Life of James Dean (HarperCollins Publishers, 2004), a novel. Reviewer Keith Ferrell wrote in Omni Magazine: "What if James Dean didn't die in that car crash in 1955? How would his life have unfolded? Would Marilyn Monroe have become his best friend? Would he pal around with Elvis and drop out with Jack Kerouac? Or climb mountains with Bobby Kennedy? And as 'Jimmy' struggles to make good on his second chance at life, perhaps he would move from the movies into politics. . . Perhaps he would even beat that other actor: Ronald Reagan.

"Interweaving fact and fiction, The Rebel is an extraordinary snapshot of postwar America and a moving story of loss of innocence -- both for a nation and for one of its brightest stars -- from "a major writer, one of the few of our generation who has a solid sense of novelistic structure and architecture."

The novel includes a diverse cast of the most influential cultural figures of our time, including Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley, Joe DiMaggio, John and Bobby Kennedy, Jack Kerouac, the Beatles, and Frank Sinatra.

Dann is a multiple award-winning author who has written or edited more than 60 books, including the novels The Memory Cathedral, The Silent, The Man Who Melted, and Bad Medicine. An American, he lives in Melbourne, Australia and "commutes" back and forth to Los Angeles and New York.

Mladen D. Kresic '82 has published Negotiate Wisely (K&R Negotiation Associates, 2004), a treatise on negotiations in business, particularly in the technology sector. Keith Blackwell, Chairman and CEO of Bristol Technology, Inc., had this to say about the book: "Mladen and Harvey are master practitioners of negotiations. They have succeeded in creating a practical primer for leaders, negotiators and sales people on one of the most important topics for anyone in business."

Kresic is co-founder of K&R Negotiation Associates, "a company specializing in structuring and negotiating business transactions, and building relationships on behalf of technology companies worldwide."

Kass Fleisher, PhD '93 has published The Bear River Massacre and the Making of History (State University of New York Press, 2004). The book is about "a little-known massacre of Shoshone at the hands of Union-affiliated troops," write Fleisher. The publisher's synopsis reads: "Explores how a pivotal event in American history -- the massacre of over 300 Shoshone men, women, and children in 1863 -- has been constructed, contested, negotiated, and forgotten."

Fleisher is an assistant professor of English at Illinois State University, and lives in Normal ("yes, we've heard all the jokes!"), Illinois, with her husband, Joe Amato, a poet who also teaches at Illinois State. She welcomes email at hkfleis@ilstu.edu.

Jane Fried '66 has co-authored Learning Reconsidered: A Campus-Wide Focus on the Student Experience (National Association of Student Personnel Administrators and the American College Personnel Association, 2004), a document that "argues for the integration of all of higher education's resources in the education and preparation of the whole student," reads the publisher's description. "The publication re-examines widely accepted ideas about conventional teaching and learning and questions whether current organizational patterns in higher education support student learning and development in today's environment. This landmark publication builds upon historical student affairs statements that focus on student affairs as a profession and is a critical resource for every student affairs professional."

Fried writes that she considers the education that she participated in at Harpur College in the '60s to be the foundation of her continuing work in transforming higher education.

Mark R. Serper '85, PhD '91 co-authored Psychotic Violence: Methods, Motives, Madness (International Universities Press, 2003). "Dispelling notions that the mentally ill uniformly pose a danger to society, [the authors] describe the individuals most likely to commit violence and their most likely victims," reads a Book News, Inc. synopsis. "They review psychological, biological, and social causes for violence and examine the responses of the legal and medical establishments. They criticize the criminalization of mental illness and the 'deinstitutionalization scam,' offering their own advice on how to address the real, but exaggerated, problem."

Serper is a professor at New York University and at Hofstra University.

Claire Puccia Parham, PhD '01 has published From Great Wilderness to Seaway Towns: A Comparative History of Cornwall, Ontario and Massena, New York, 1784-2001 (State University of New York Press, 2004). The book describes the struggles of early settlers and analyzes the development of industry and the construction of the St. Lawrence Seaway.

"I am excited to have this book published," said Parham. "I am already making plans for my next project, which is to conduct oral interviews and expand on this book's fourth chapter and create a television documentary that describes the lives of workers and the impact of the St. Lawrence Seaway construction project on the region."

Parham is an adjunct professor at the College of St. Rose and at Siena College in Albany, New York.

Mitchell D. Kessler '80 has published May It Please the Court: A Lawyer's War Stories (Bonneville Books, 2004). "Join this personal injury lawyer in his conquests both in and out of the courtroom as he struggles to right the wrongs of an imperfect society and to speak for those who sometimes can't speak for themselves," reads the publisher's description. "Compelling stories involving reckless drivers, random acts of violence, prescription drugs with tragic side-effects, falsified police reports, incorrect autopsy reports and much more will grab your interest and give you an amazing glimpse into the world of our nation's courts."

John J. Sosik '95 is lead author of The Dream Weavers: Strategy-Focused Leadership in Technology-Driven Organizations (Information Age Publishing, 2004). Sosik's co-authors include Binghamton University School of Management professors Shelley D. Dionne and Kimberly S. Jaussi, as well as Don I. Jung of San Diego State University and Yair Berson of Polytechnic University. An article about the book on Pennsylvania State University's website reads:" The Dream Weavers is based on some of Sosik's and his co-authors' prior leadership research, as well as extensive interviews with 75 executives from many different organizations across technology-driven industries in the United States and Israel, including such well known corporations as General Electric, Qualcomm, Barclays Global Investors and The Vanguard Group, to name a few."

Sosik is associate professor of management and organization at Pennsylvania State University's Great Valley School of Graduate Professional Studies.

Steven Brown '87 has published, under his pen name, "Stan!" a short story, "Skin Deep" in an anthology of fantasy fiction, Children of the Rune (Malhavoc Press, 2004). The anthology also includes a short story, "Hollows of the Heart," co-written by Brown and Keith Strohm '93.