Alumni Authors

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Susan Ariel Aaronson '76 is the co-author of Trade Imbalance (Cambridge University Press, 2007), a book that studies how governments attempt to reconcile their trade and human rights objectives in the 21st century.

Dror Abend-David, MA '95, PhD, has published 'Scorned my Nation': A Comparison of Translations of The Merchant of Venice into German, Hebrew, and Yiddish (Peter Lang Publishing, 2003).

Diana Abu-Jaber, PhD '86 has published a novel, Crescent (W. W. Norton and Co., 2003).

Chiji Akoma, PhD '98 wrote Folklore in New World Black Fiction: Writing and the Oral Traditional Aesthetics (The Ohio State University Press, 2007).

Jason Alter '89 is the author of John Fastramp and the Dakota 3000 Challenge (BookSurge Publishing, 2007).

Stanley N. Alpert '81 published The Birthday Party: A Memoir of Survival (Putnam, 2007).

Ana Aparicio '94 has published Dominican-Americans and the Politics of Empowerment (University Press of Florida, 2006). It examines the ways Dominican-Americans have shaped a new presence in New York City politics.

Cesar J. Ayala is the co-author of Puerto Rico in the American Century: A History since 1898 (University of North Carolina Press, 2007).

Tom Bailey '91 has published The Grace That Keeps This World (Random House, 2005). It is a first novel about fathers and sons, tough love and compassion, the bonds of community and the solace of belief.

Patricia Barnes-Svarney, MA '83 and Thomas Eugene Svarney have published A Paranoid's Ultimate Survival Guide (Prometheus Books, 2002), a half-humorous, half-serious book cataloguing the dangers of the natural world -- and how to minimize the risk of damage to property or personal injury.

Anita Baskin-Salzberg '73 has published two books: Turtles (Franklin Watts, 1996), which she co-wrote with her husband, Allen Salzberg, and Confessions of a Turtle Wife (Hats Off Books, 2001).

Seth Bates '98 is the co-author of SharePoint 2007 User's Guide (Apress, 2007), a book that provides guidance about the new workflows, interface and other technologies within SharePoint 2007; this book is a follow up to the guide for SharePoint 2003.

Donna Bennett '68 served as editor, along with Russell Brown '68, of the book Canadian Short Stories (Penguin, 2005). It is a volume of 39 classic and contemporary stories by Canadian authors.

Daril Bentley '81 has published In That Other Life: And Other Poems (Llumina Press, 2004), a collection of poetry by an author whose life has taken him from the vernal Finger Lakes of upstate New York to the scintillating lights and hectic streets of Manhattan, and on to the huge moons and dusty trails of rural New Mexico.

Virginia Blanton MA ’91, PhD ’98 published Signs of Devotion: The Cult of St. Aethelthryth in Medieval England, 695-1615 (Penn State Press, 2007).

Susanne Bleiberg-Seperson '68, PhD, has published Elder Care and Service Learning: A Handbook (Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc., 2002), a book she co-edited with Carol Hegeman of the Foundation for Long Term Care, Albany, N.Y.

Tracey Jean Boisseau, PhD '95 has published White Queen: May French-Sheldon and the Imperial Origins of American Feminist Identity (Indiana University Press, 2004), a critical account of the sensational feminism of May French-Smith, once known as the "first woman explorer of Africa."

Victoria Boynton, PhD '94 and Jo Malin, PhD '95 co-edited a collection of essays, Herspace: Women, Writing, and Solitude (The Haworth Press, 2003). They also co-edited Encyclopedia of Women's Autobiography (Greenwood Press, 2005). It contains nearly 200 alphabetically arranged entries by more than 130 expert contributors.

Philip Brady, PhD '90 has published To Prove My Blood: A Tale of Emigrations and the Afterlife (Ashland Poetry Press, 2003), "a memoir as modern Irish-American history charted in the lives of four emigrant sisters and their families," according to the publisher.

John Brick, MA '79, PhD '81, Editor, Handbook of the Medical Consequences of Alcohol and Drug Abuse (The Haworth Press, Inc. 2004).

Lesley Brill's '67 has published The Hitchcock Romance (Princeton, 1988) and John Huston's Filmmaking (Cambridge, 1997).

Russell Brown '68 served as editor, along with Donna Bennett '68, of the book Canadian Short Stories (Penguin, 2005). It is a volume of 39 classic and contemporary stories by Canadian authors.

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).

Patrick Burke '91 has published The Lazy Bachelor's Cookbook (Marram Publishing, Ltd., 2002).

Sheree Bykofsky '78 co-wrote The Complete Idiot's Guide to Getting Published (Alpha, 2006). She has also written a number of books on poker.

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Tandy (Gold) Camilli '78 published Outsourcing Software Development Offshore: Making It Work (Auerbach, 2004).

Susan Campbell Bartoletti, PhD '01 wrote Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow (Scholastic Nonfiction, 2005), which was named a Newbery Honor Book by the Association for Library Service to Children. Her book explores Hitler's rise to power through the first-hand experiences of young followers.

Jorge L. Chinea '80, MA '83 has published Race and Labor in the Hispanic Caribbean (University Press of Florida, 2005) which has been awarded a Board of Governors Faculty Recognition Award. His book examines the impact of foreign immigrants in Puerto Rico during its transition from subsistence farming and ranching to commercial agriculture.

Regina Clark '82 has published Deadlines & Diapers: 65 Tips for Working Moms (Regina Clark, 2005).

Wayne Coffey '76 has published The Boys of Winter (Crown, 2005). According to Publishers Weekly, "In this well-written and thoroughly researched story of the 1980 Olympic gold-medal winning hockey team, New York Daily News sportswriter Coffey does much more than simply evoke memories."

Mark Cohen '80 has published Last Century of a Sephardic Community: The Jews of Monastir, 1839 - 1943 (Foundation for the Advancement of Sephardic Studies and Culture, 2003).

Paul J. Contino '82 has co-edited and co-introduced with Susan Felch Bakhtin, Religion: A Feeling for Faith (Rethinking Theory) (Northwestern University Press, 2001).

Stephen Corey '70, MA '73 has published There is No Finished World (White Pine Press, 2003), his tenth published collection of poems. "In poems that are relentlessly introspective yet never trivial, Corey delves into human experience at its most potent moments and show us that the large questions are best considered within the context of the most minute details," reads the publisher's description.

Joshua Corin '96, MA '00 wrote Nuclear Winter Wonderland (Kunati, 2008).

Elizabeth Cramer '83, PhD, MSW, LCSW, ACSW, an associate professor in the School of Social Work at Virginia Commonwealth University, has published a book she edited, Addressing Homophobia and Heterosexism on College Campuses (The Haworth Press, 2003).

Carl J. Crawford has published Embracing the Family: Achieving a Loving Balance in Family Dynamics (SterlingHouse Publishers, 2003). "Embracing the Family examines broken family relationships in order to reveal how they can be remedied by the power of love," reads the publisher's description.

Angie Cruz '96 has published a novel, Soledad (Simon & Schuster, 2002). She also published Let it Rain Coffee (Simon & Schuster, 2005) which chronicles the struggles of a multigenerational Dominican family living in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan.

Sniper, by Bonnie (Bedford) Culver '85 is a play produced in California, New Jersey and New York based on an actual event, the first of the school shootings, which happened in Bonnie's hometown of Olean, N.Y. in 1974.

Mallory Curley '79 has published Beatle Pete, Time Traveller (Randy Press, 2005, available throuogh abebooks.com), an offbeat book about original Beatles drummer Pete Best, early Beatles history, and Pete's life after the Beatles.

Jef Czekaj '91 has published Grampa & Julie: Shark Hunters (Top Shelf Productions, 2004).

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Jack Dann '69 has published Jubilee (Tor Books, 2002), a major retrospective collection of his short fiction. He's also published a story collection of 14 stories written in the 1970s and '80s, Visitations (Five Star Press, 2003) and a short story collection called The Fiction Factory (Golden Gryphon Press, 2005).

Jack Dann '69 has published Jack The Rebel: An Imagined Life of James Dean (HarperCollins, 2004), a novel.

Modern Rhetorical Criticism, third edition, by Suzanne Daughton '85 and Rod Hart (Allyn and Bacon, 2005) shows readers how to examine and interpret rhetorical situations, ideas, arguments, structure and style.

Bill Decker '83 has published two underground best selling booklets under the Lessons from the Road series. One is Global Business 1-2-3 and the other is Start Up Tips, 1-2-3.

Jeana DelRosso '92 has published Writing Catholic Women: Contemporary International Catholic Girlhood Narratives (Palgrave Press, 2005), a book that examines the interplay of gender, race, ethnicity, nationality and sexuality through the lens of Catholicism.

Peter Doobinin '77 has published a novel, Suburban Boy, (iUniverse, Inc. 2005). The protagonist Peter is trying to discover a sense of purpose, meaning, and abandoned joyfulness.

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Ronald G. Ehrenberg '66, is the co-editor of Science and the University (University of Wisconsin Press, 2007), a book that investigates the tremendous changes that have taken place in University research over the past few decades. 

Robert P. Ellis ’57 published Northborough in the Civil War (History Press, 2007).

Steve Elman '71 is the co-author of Burning Up the Air: Jerry Williams, Talk Radio and the Life in Between (Commonwealth Editions, 2008).

Nathan Englander '91 published his first novel, The Ministry of Special Cases (Knopf, 2007).

Alicia Erian '90 has published her first book of short stories, The Brutal Language of Love (Villard/Random House 2001).

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Carol Faulkner, MA '95, PhD '98 has published Women's Radical Reconstruction: The Freedmen's Aid Movement (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003).

Dennis Fenichel '68 is the author of Titters, Giggles and Tears (Outskirts Press, 2008).

Kass Fleisher, PhD '93 has published The Bear River Massacre and the Making of History (State University of New York Press, 2004).

Laurie Foos '88 has published her fourth novel, Bingo Under the Crucifix (Coffee House Press, 2002).

Jeffrey Ford '79, MA '81 has published Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque (HarperCollins, 2002). He has also published a novel, The Girl in The Glass (Harper Collins, 2005). In the novel, the Great Depression has bound a nation in despair - and only a privileged few have risen above it: the exorbitantly wealthy and the hucksters who feed upon them.

Bruce Freeman '73 is the co-author of Birthing The Elephant (Ten Speed Press, 2008), a guide for aspiring female entrepreneurs.

Shalom Seymour Freedman '64 has published Small Acts of Kindness (Urim Publications, 2004).

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.

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Donna Gaines '74 has published a memoir, A Misfit's Manifesto: The Spiritual Journey of a Rock & Roll Heart (Villard Books, 2003).

William A. Glasser '57 has published New Systems for Managing a College (Magna Publications, 2005).

John Gottcent ’64, MA ’68 published his first novel, The Autobiography of Jesus of Nazareth (PublishAmerica, 2007).

Laurie Graff '76 has published You Have To Kiss a Lot of Frogs (Red Dress Ink, 2004), a novel.

Bruce A. Grossman '80 has published Workplace Politics: A Practical Guide for Making Your Experience at Work More Positive, Productive and Pleasant (Xlibris Corporation, 2003).

Marshall Grossman '69 is the editor of Reading Renaissance Ethics (Routledge, 2007).

Ruchir Gupta '01 has published The Ramayan: A Poetic Translation (Global Scholarly Publications, 2003) the only English translation of the sacred Hindu text written in the same poetic form as the original story.

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Roger Hall '72 has published an updated edition of Celebrate, Rejoice and Sing! - Christmas Music in America (Pine Tree Press, 2003), one of many guides to American music that he has compiled.

Rich Hand ’85 wrote a motivational autobiography My Life; Ignored! Life is Too Short to Ignore Yours! (HDI, 2007).

Roger Hekinian, PhD '69 has published Oceanic Hotspots (Springer-Verlag, 2004) a book he co-edited with Peter Stoffers and Jean-Louis Cheminee.

Gail Hennessey '73, sixth-grade social studies teacher at Harpursville Central School in Harpursville, N.Y., has published a new book for teachers and students Will the Real Paul Revere Please Stand Up? (Scholastic, 2002).

Paul S. Herrnson '81 has published War Stories from Capitol Hill (Prentice Hall, 2003), which he co-authored with Colton Campbell. "An insider account of how Congress works, this book contains insightful first person reminisces, from former congressional fellows and staffers, about the ins and outs and dos and don'ts of everyday life on Capitol Hill," reads the publisher's description. He also published the Guide to Political Campaigns in America, the first resource to examine and explain every aspect of campaigns in a manner that satisfies the needs of many different audiences.

J. Hoberman '71 has published The Magic Hour: Film at Fin de Siecle (Temple University Press, 2003).

Sharon E. Hunt '81 published Vail and Colossal Cave Mountain Park (Arcadia Publishing, 2007).

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Sam Intrator '87 is the co-author of Leading from Within: Poetry that Sustains the Courage to Lead (Jossey-Bass, 2007).

Judson L. Jeffries, MPP '90, has published Urban America and Its Police: From the Postcolonial Era Through the Turbulent 1960's (University Press of Colorado, 2003), co-authored with Harlan D. Hahn.

G. Steve Jordan '80, photographer, published a collection of his photos, Strength Beauty Spirit: Images of the Mohonk Preserve and Shawangunk Ridge (Clove Editions, 2003).

Pierre Joris, PhD '90 has published A Nomad Poetics: Essays (Wesleyan University Press, 2003). The publisher's description reads: "With the artistic and social climates of the 20th century -- and the last millennium -- behind us, how do we, in the words of Ezra Pound, 'make it new' In what tongue and to what ends will the vital poetry of the future be written?"

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Pauline Kaldas, PhD '98 has published Egyptian Compass, a collection of poems (WordTech Communications, 2006).

Katherine Karlson '74 contributed to, and, with Patricia Guy, edited an anthology of essays on Victorian/Edwardian social history as documented in the Sherlock Holmes stories: Ladies, Ladies: The Women in the Life of Sherlock Holmes (Aventine Press, 2007). 

Jeff Katz '84 wrote The Kansas City A's and the Wrong Half of the Yankees (Maple Street Press, 2007).

Steven G. Kellman '67 has published Switching Languages: Translingual Writers Reflect on Their Craft (University of Nebraska Press, 2003), a book he edited and for which he wrote the introductory essay. He has also published Redemption: The Life of Henry Roth (W.W. Norton, 2005) which was the subject of an extensive artice in the July 25, 2005 edition of The New Yorker.

Mitchell D. Kessler '80 has published May It Please the Court: A Lawyer's War Stories (Bonneville Books, 2004).

Rob Kirkpatrick, PhD '03 has published Cecil Travis of the Washington Senators: The War-Torn Career of an All-Star Shortstop (McFarland, 2006).

Rob Kirkpatrick, PhD '03 is the editor of The Quotable Sixties (The Lyons Press, 2006), a collection of memorable quotations from this bellwether decade in American culture.

David Kocieniewski '84 has published Brass Wall: The Betrayal of Undercover Detective #4126 (Henry Holt & Company, Inc., 2003), a book about police corruption in New York City.

Thomas M. Kocik '87 has published The Reform of the Reform? (Ignatius Press, 2003), a critique of 20th-century liturgical changes in Roman Catholicism.

Judith Kolberg,'75 wrote Conquering Chronic Disorganization (Squall Press, 2005) which has been selected as recommended reading for the certification examination for professional organizers.

Joseph Kosiewska, MA '74 published a collection of short stories, The Secret Nature of Space and Time (synergEbooks.com, 2006).

Mladen D. Kresic '82 has published Negotiate Wisely (K&R Negotiation Associates, 2004), a treatise on negotiations in business, particularly in the technology sector.

Karel Kurst Swanger, PhD '96 has published a book she co-wrote, Violence in the Home: Multidisciplinary Perspectives (Oxford University Press, 2003). "This important book reviews the most current theoretical explanations of family violence and then links theory to practice," reads the publisher's description.

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Ann Larabee '88 published The Dynamite Fiend: The Chilling Tale of a Confederate Spy, Con Artist and Mass Murderer (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005). Larabee charts the life of Scottish-Canadian Alexander Keith, the fiend of the title who, in 1875, put an end to "an age of innocence that could not yet conceive of malevolent designs to destroy thousands of unwitting human beings in a single horrific stroke."

Michael Laser '75 is the author of Cheater (Dutton Juvenile, 2008).

Richard E. Lee, MA '89, PhD '94 has published Life and Times of Cultural Studies: The Politics and Transformation of the Structures of Knowledge (Philosophy and Postcoloniality) (Duke University Press, 2003).

Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz '75 has published Wedding as Text: Communicating Cultural Identities Through Ritual (Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., 2002).

Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz '75 has published Rolling in Ditches With Shamans: Jamie De Angulo and the Professionalization of American Anthropology (Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology Series) (University of Nebraska Press, 2004) which charts American anthropology in the 1920s through the life and work of one of the amateur scholars of the time, Jamie de Angulo.

Joseph D. Lewandowski, PhD '98, has published Interpreting Culture: Rethinking Method and Truth in Social Theory (Modern German Culture and Literature Series) (University of Nebraska, 2001).

Tabea Alexa Linhard, MA '96, has published Fearless Women in the Mexican Revolution and the Spanish Civil War (University of Missouri Press, 2005).

Stephanie B. Lockshin '91, PhD '94, Jennifer Gillis '99, MA '02 and Raymond Romanczyk have published Defying Autism: Keeping Your Sanity and Taking Control (Drl Books Inc, 2004).

William Luis '71 has published Lunes de Revolucion: Literatura y cultura en los primeros a-os de la Revolucion Cubana (Lunes de Revolucion: Literature and Culture in the First Years of the Cuban Revolution) (Madrid: Verbum, 2003).

Fred Luskin '76, director and co-founder of the Stanford University Forgiveness Project and author of Forgive for Good: A Proven Prescription for Health and Happiness (HarperCollins, 2001), has received widespread national attention for his new book.

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Laura Maffei '89 published her first collection of poetry, Drops from her Umbrella (Inkling Press, 2006). The book is a collection of tanka, the five-line lyric form originating in Japan that captures a single, subjective moment in time.

Jo Malin PhD '95 co-edited Encyclopedia of Women's Autobiography (Greenwood Press, 2005) with Victoria Boynton PhD '95. It contains nearly 200 alphabetically arranged entries by more than 130 expert contributors. They also co-edited a collection of essays, Herspace: Women, Writing, and Solitude (The Haworth Press, 2003).

Miriam B. Mandel '64, senior lecturer in the English Department at Tel Aviv University in Ramat Aviv, Israel, has published Hemingway's Death in the Afternoon (Scarecrow Press, 2002).

Harry Marten '65 wrote a memoir But That Didn't Happen To You: Recollections and Inventions (Xoxox Press, 2006).

Rafe Martin '66 has published Birdwing (Scholastic Publishing, 2005) a young adult book. It is the story of a young man, Ardwin, who has a wing instead of a left arm.

Bobbie Ann Mason '66 has published An Atomic Romance (Random House, 2005).

Larry N. Mayer '83 wrote the short story "Love for Miss Dottie, or Some Crazy Pain", which Mary Gaitskill selected to be in the anthology Best New American Voices (Harcourt, 2009).

Timothy Mayers, MA '90 has published (Re)Writing Craft: Composition, Creative Writing, and the Future of English Studies (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005). The book was published as part of the press's series on composition, literacy and culture.

Glen Mazis '72, professor of humanities and philosophy at Soka University and associate professor of humanities and philosophy at Pennsylvania State University at Harrisburg, has published Earthbodies: Rediscovering Our Planetary Senses (State University of New York Press, 2002).

Michelle McGoff-McCann '94 has published Melancholy Madness: A Coroner's Casebook (Mercier Press, 2003), her first book.

Adam McKible ’84 has published The Space and Place of Modernism: The Russian Revolution, Little Magazines, and New York (Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory) (Routledge, 2002) and When Washington Was in Vogue, by Edward Christopher Williams (HarperCollins, 2003).

Kevin Mednick '75 wrote An Almost Life (Permanent Press, 2007).

Bob Merberg, '81, has published The Health Seeker's Handbook: Revolutionary Advice on How to Shape Up, Trim Down, and Chill Out...from America's #1 Health Coach (Well Lit Books, 2003).

Robert Metzger '74 has published Debugging by Thinking: A Multidisciplinary Approach (Elsevier Digital Press, 2004).

Keith B. Miller '83 edited Perspectives on Evolving Creation (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2003).

Roger K. Miller '65 wrote Invisible Hero (iUniverse, 2007), a novel inspired by the life of a young Army rifleman from Pennsylvania who fought in the Korean war and was held as a POW by the Chinese.

Dr. Jodi Mindell '84 wrote Sleep Deprived No More: From Pregnancy to Early Motherhood - Helping You and Your Baby Get a Good Night's Sleep (Malowe, 2007). This joins her popular book Sleeping Through the Night: How Infants, Toddlers, and Their Parents Can Get a Good Night's Sleep (HarperCollins, 2005).

Kurt J. Mohney ’76 has published Your Fledgling Athlete – A Handbook for Sideline Parents (PublishAmerica, 2004).

Nicholas Montemarano '96 published his first novel, A Fine Place (Context Books, 2002), and was awarded a $20,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Robert Mooney, MA '83 has published his first novel, Father of the Man (Pantheon, 2002), a story set in 1982 in a close-knit community of Irish-Americans in Binghamton.

Chevelle R. Moore '91 wrote The Healing of a Nation: Through The Ties That Bind Us Together (Tate Publishing & Enterprises, 2007).

Julie Lumpkin Moran '85 has published The Six-Spoke Approach to Golf (Lyons Press, 2005) with Tom Patri, one of America's leading instructors. It is a complete blueprint for taking the game to its highest level.

Thomas J. Morrissey '69, MA '71, distinguished teaching professor of English at Plattsburgh State University, has published a book of which he is co-author, Pinocchio Goes Postmodern: The Perils of a Puppet in the United States (Routledge, 2002).

Stacey Agin Murray '89, professional organizer and owner of Organized Artistry, LLC, wrote and self-published a booklet, 7 Steps to an Organized Wedding Thank You Note: A Bride and Groom's Guide to Staying Sane During the Thank You Note Writing Process.

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Barbara A. Nadel '75 has published Building Security: Handbook for Architectural Planning and Design (McGraw-Hill, New York, 2004) a reference for architects, engineers, planners, building owners, facility managers, construction and real estate professionals, public officials, law enforcement, safety specialists, educators, and students seeking to create safe, secure, and well-designed environments.

Nathan Naparstek '77 has published Successful Educators: A Practical Guide for Understanding Children's Learning and Mental Health Issues (Greenwood Press, 2002). He also published Is Your Child Depressed: Answers to Your Toughest Questions (McGraw-Hill, 2005).

Nina Nickles '84, a professional photographer, published a book featuring her photographs, Things I Have to Tell You (Candlewick Press, 2001), a collection of poetry and writings by teenage girls.

John Nizalowski ’78 has published Hooking the Sun (Farolito Press, 2003), which follows the life of protagonist Paul Zagadka. “A book of alternating poetry and short stories written in the classical Roman satura form (like The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius),” reads the publisher’s description.

Ira A. Noveck '84 has published Experimental Pragmatics with Dan Sperber (Palgrave MacMillan, 2004).

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Stacey Olster '74 has published The Trash Phenomenon: Contemporary Literature, Popular Culture, and the Making of the American Century (University of Georgia Press, 2003).

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).

Karen Pastorello '01 wrote A Power Among Them: Bessie Abramowitz Hillman and The Making of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America (University of Illinois Press, 2008).

Molly Peacock '69 has published Cornucopia: New and Selected Poems (Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc., 2003). Peacock is a distinguished poet and president emeritus of the Poetry Society of America.

Shari Lawrence Pfleeger '70, PhD, and her husband, Charles P. Pfleeger, have published Security in Computing (Prentice Hall Professional Technical Reference, 2002). She has also published Software Engineering, 3/E (Prentice Hall, 2006), an introduction to software engineering.

Michael D. Pierson, MA '87, PhD '93 has published Free Hearts and Free Homes: Gender and American Antislavery Politics (University of North Carolina Press, 2003).

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Dean Rader, MA '91, PhD '94 has published Speak to Me Words: Essays on Contemporary Indian Poetry (University of Arizona Press, 2003), a book he co-edited with Janice Gould. "Although American Indian poetry is widely read and discussed, few resources have been available that focus on it critically," reads the publisher's description.

Steven Ratiner '69 has published Giving Their Word: Conversations with Contemporary Poets (University of Massachusetts Press, 2002), a collection based on a series of interviews he conducted over three years for the Christian Science Monitor. He has also published two new poetry chapbooks: a small retrospective collection in Pudding House Press’ Greatest Hits series (Pudding House Press, 2002) and Button, Button (OpenEye Press, 2002).

Krishnendu Ray '95, PhD '00 has published The Migrant's Table: Meals and Memories in Bengali American Households (Temple University Press, 2004).

Elizabeth Eisner Reding '79 has published Adobe Photoshop 7.0 -- Design Professional (Course Technology, Inc., 2002).

Karen Remmler '79 is the co-editor of Artists, Intellectuals, and World War II: The Pontigny Encounters at Mount Holyoke College, 1942-1944 (University of Massachusetts Press, 2006). The book is a collection of original essays assessing the lasting impact and contemporary significance of Pontigny-en-Amerique.

Donald Revell '75 has published The Self-Dismembered Man: Selected Later Poems of Guillaume Apollinaire (Wesleyan University Press, 2004), a collection of his translations of poems by the French modernist poet. He also published Pennyweight Windows: New and Selected Poems (Alice James Books, 2005), one of only seven poetry titles reviewed in the May 9, 2005 issue of TIME Magazine.

Matthew M. Roberson '90, assistant professor of English at Central Michigan University, has published a novel, 1998.6 (Fiction Collective Two, Inc., 2002), and a collection of essays he edited about writer Ronald Sukenick, Musing the Mosaic: Approaches to Ronald Sukenick (State University of New York Press, 2003).

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Lee B. Salz '92 is the author of Soar Despite Your Dodo Sales Manager (Wbusiness Books, 2007).

Pamela Sargent '69, MA '72 has published Farseed (Tor Teen, 2007).

Howard Schilit, MS '74 has published the second edition of his 1993 book, Financial Shenanigans: How to Detect Accounting Gimmicks and Fraud in Financial Statements (McGraw-Hill Professional, 2002).

Karen Halvorsen Schreck, MA '87 has published Dream Journal (Hyperion Books for Children, 2006), a powerful novel about an isolated and frightened teenager whose mother has breast cancer.

David Schultz '80, MA '86 has published Lights, Camera, Campaign! Media, Politics and Political Advertising (Peter Lang Publishing, 2004), which explores the convergence of political advertising with pop culture.

David Schultz '80, MA '86, an attorney as well as a writer, has published Money, Politics, and Campaign Finance Reform Law in the States (Carolina Academic Press, 2002), a book that "presents an exciting examination of campaign finance reform and the role of money in state politics through the 2000 elections," according to the publisher's description.

Cindy Schwarz '80 has published Tales from the Subatomic Zoo (Small World Books, 2002), a collection of stories and poems about subatomic particles written by her students at Vassar College.

David R. Segal '62 has published a reissue of his book Recruiting for Uncle Sam: Citizenship and Military Manpower Policy (University Press of Kansas, 2002).

Seth Segall '69 has published Encountering Buddhism: Western Psychology and Buddhist Teachings (State University of New York Press, 2003).

Susan Seligson '76 has published Going with the Grain: A Wandering Bread Lover Takes a Bite Out of Life (Simon & Schuster, 2002).

Evan Selinger '96 is the co-author of Philosophy of Expertise (Columbia University Press, 2006) and the editor of Postphenomenology: A Critical Companion to Ihde (State University of New York Press, 2006).

Mark R. Serper '85, PhD '91 co-authored Psychotic Violence: Methods, Motives, Madness (International Universities Press, 2003).

Mitchell Silver, MA '74 wrote A Plausible God: Secular Reflections on Liberal Jewish Theology (Fordham University Press, 2006).

Laura Simms '67 has published The Robe Of Love (Codhill Press, 2002).

Joel Smales, MM '91, has published Linear Drumming: An Introduction to Playing Linear Drums and Fills (Phantom Publications, 2002).

Erin Elizabeth Smith '04 published her first collection of poetry The Fear of Being Found (Three Candles Press, 2008).

Richard A. Solomon '82 has published Winning in the New York Small Claims Courts: A Simple, Step-By-Step Guide for Everyone (Rescue Media, Inc., 2002).

John J. Sosik '95 is lead author of The Dream Weavers: Strategy-Focused Leadership in Technology-Driven Organizations (Information Age Publishing, 2004).

John J. Sosik '95 is the author of Leading with Character: Stories of Valor and Virtue and the Principles They Teach (Information Age Publishing, 2006).

Devra Newberger Speregen '86 has published Ilan Ramon: Jewish Star (Jewish Publication Society, 2004), a biography of Israel's first astronaut, who served on board the space shuttle Columbia and died Feb. 1, 2003 along with six other astronauts when the shuttle was destroyed during re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere.

Art Spiegelman has published In the Shadow of No Towers (Pantheon Books, 2004) his account of the events and aftermath of September 11, 2001.

Linda Budinoff Spurlock '76, MA '86 is the editor of Caves & Culture: 10,000 Years of Ohio History (Kent State University Press, 2006). The book seeks to address a number of issues, including the use of rock shelters by humans through time.

Susan Stabile '88, MA '90 has published Memory's Daughters (Cornell University Press, 2004).

Jason Starr '88 has published Twisted City (Vintage Books, 2004) the story of financial journalist David Miller who is vertiginously plunged into murder and blackmail.

Keith Strassberg '96, CPA, CISSP, has published Network Security: The Complete Reference (McGraw-Hill, 2003), a book he coauthored with Roberta Bragg and Mark Rhodes-Ousley.

Robert S. Swiatek '72 has published This Page Intentionally Left Blank (Aventine Press, 2007), a book about the plight of the laborer. He also wrote For Seeing Eye Dogs Only (Aventine Press, 2005).

Ryder Syvertsen '69, MA '71, author of the Mystic Rebel and Doomsday Warrior action/adventure/science-fiction novel series, has had his books re-issued as e-books through Eagle One Media.

Deborah A. Symonds, MA '81, PhD '85 has published Notorious Murders, Black Lanterns, and Moveable Goods (University of Akron Press, 2006). The book explores the shadow economy of petty theft, thievery, and murder in the Old Town district of Edinburgh, Scotland in the early 19th century.

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Deborah Tannen '66 is best known as the author of You Just Don’t Understand: Women and Men in Conversation, which was on The New York Times Best Seller list for nearly four years, including eight months as No. 1, and has been translated into 29 languages.

Peter Temes '88 (formerly Peter Boros) has published Against School Reform (And in Praise of Great Teaching) (Ivan R. Dee, 2002).

Richard Unger '72 wrote LifePrints (Ten Speed Press, 2007), a book that discusses deciphering your life's purpose from your fingerprints.

Jessica Utts '73 and her co-author, Robert F. Heckard, have published Mind on Statistics (Duxbury Press, 2001).

Richard Vang '91 published My Dad is a Freemason (Square Cirle Press, 2006), a book designed to help Freemasons explain their organization to their children. Until recently, Masonic tradition had discouraged the discussion of lodge activities with family members.

Laurie Vickroy, PhD '90, associate professor of English at Bradley University, has published Trauma and Survival in Contemporary Fiction (University of Virginia Press, 2002).

Anita Page, Jean Darling and Diana Serra Cary. Of the silent film stars author Tony Villecco '98 interviewed for his new book, Silent Stars Speak: Interviews with Twelve Cinema Pioneers (McFarland, $28), only those three are alive today.

Chris Voparil '91, MA '93 had his book Richard Rorty: Politics and Vision (Rowman and Littlefield Press, 2006). The book is his first full-length work devoted to Rorty, one of America's greatest living philosophers, from the perspective of political theory.

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Peter C. Wallin '84 wrote In Pursuit of Business (Word Association, 2007), a guide to relationship-building and networking.

Tamar Warga '93 has published A Taste of Freedom: Recipes for Passover (or Anytime) Without Wheat, Dairy, Eggs, Nuts and Fish (InstantPublisher, 2004), a food allergy cookbook.

Gary Wassner '73 is the author of Revenge of the Elves (Windstorm Creative, 2007).

Adam Weiner '92 wrote Don't Try This At Home! The Physics of Hollywood Movies (Kaplan Publishing, 2007)

Napoleon Wells '02 has published A Field Negroes Handbook (iUniverse, 2005), which takes a hard look at issues of manhood, fidelity, responsibility and survival within the African-American community.

Debra Weinstein '83 has published Apprentice to the Flower Poet Z (Random House, 2004), a novel. "When Annabelle G., a working-class student of poetry, lands a part-time job assisting the renowned Flower Poet Z., she thinks her dreams have been realized," reads a Library Journal review by Eleanor J. Bader.

Suzanne Weyn '77 has published The Bar Code Tattoo (Scholastic Paperbacks, 2004) a novel.

Alison Wylie, MA '79, '82 has published Thinking from Things: Essays in the Philosophy of Archaeology (University of California Press, 2002).

Danny Yankelevits '88, an executive at Dreamworks SKG, has published his first book, Hollywood Dealmaking: Negotiating Talent Agreements (Allworth Press, 2002), which he co-authored with Dina Appleton.

Jillian C. York '04 wrote Culture Smart! Morocco (Kuperard, 2006).

Tom Yulsman '77 has published Origins: The Quest for our Cosmic Roots (Institute of Physics Publishing, 2003).

George Zebrowski '69 has published In the Distance, and Ahead in Time (Five Star, 2002), a collection of 10 stories.

Steven Zwickel '71 and William S. Pfeiffer have just published the Pocket Guide to Technical Presentations & Professional Speaking (Prentice Hall, 2005)

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Last updated/reviewed on 3/21/08.