Alumni Authors
This list has been compiled from books submitted to The Reporter since the fall of 2013. To add your book to the list, please email [email protected].
Winter 2025
The Innermost House
Cynthia Blakeley ’81
Bright Leaf, 2024; 256 pages
A Home in Woods Hole: Life and History on Eel Pond
Elizabeth Heslop Sheehy ’86
The History Press, 2024; 208 pages
The Keeper
Joan Vincent IDP’86
North Street Publishing, 2023; 395 pages
What’s Next: A Backstage Pass to The West Wing, Its Cast and Crew, and Its Enduring Legacy of Service
Melissa Fitzgerald and Mary McCormack ’91
Dutton, 2024; 588 pages
Scratch My Itch: A Caregiver’s Honest, Humorous, and Healing Stories about the Horrors of ALS
Cyndy Mamalian ’92
Resource Publications, 2024; 151 pages
Around Every Corner of Connecticut: 100 Towns to Explore Every Season
Sarah Cody ’95
Globe Pequot, 2024; 192 pages
Fall 2024
The Logic of Zionism: From Nationalist Myth to the Gaza Genocide
David W. Green ’71, under the pen name David North
Mehring Books, 2024; 83 pages
The Origins of Social Care and Social Work: Creating a Global Future
Mark Henrickson ’77
Policy Press of Bristol University Press, 2022; 232 pages
HIV, Sex and Sexuality in Later Life
Edited by Mark Henrickson ’77, Casey Charles, Shiv Ganesh, Sulaimon Giwa, Kan Diana Kwok, and Tetyana Semigina
Policy Press of Bristol University Press, 2022; 224 pages
Seafarer: New Poems with Earthling and Forever
James Longenbach ’81
W.W. Norton, 2024 (published posthumously); 177 pages
Sebastian the Speedy Sloth
Jessica Brierley ’98
Mascot Kids, 2023; 33 pages
Spring 2024
The Legal Tech Ecosystem: Innovation, Advancement & the Future of Law Practice
Colin S. Levy ’06
Ramses House Publishing, 2023; 211 pages
Slavery, Capitalism, and Women’s Literature: Economic Insights of American Women Writers, 1852–1869
Kristin Allukian M’06
The University of Georgia Press, 2023; 213 pages
Winter 2024
Leon Trotsky and the Struggle for Socialism in the Twenty-First Century
David W. Green ’71, under the pen name David North
Mehring Books, 2023; 276 pages
Designing-Women’s Lives: Transforming Place and Self
Toby Israel ’74
ORO Editions, 2023; 179 pages
The Children’s Front: The True Story of an Orphanage in Wartime France
Marty Parkes ’81
Indie Books International, 2023; 117 pages
Peril at Price Manor
Laura Parnum ’95
HarperCollins, 2023; 292 pages
Spring 2023
Strategy in Politics: Plotting Victory in a Democracy
Christopher Arterton ’65
Oxford University Press, 2023; 246 pages
The Way We Were: The Making of a Romantic Classic
Tom Santopietro ’76
Applause Theatre & Cinema Books, 2023; 312 pages
The New Cold War, China, and the Caribbean: Economic Statecraft, China and Strategic Realignments
Scott B. MacDonald ’78
Palgrave Macmillan, 2022; 302 pages
The Kennedy Withdrawal: Camelot and the American Commitment to Vietnam
Marc J. Selverstone ’84
Harvard University Press, 2022; 325 pages
Without Restraint: How Skiing Saved My Son’s Life
Robert C. DeLena ’91 and Ryan C. DeLena
Falcon Press/Globe Pequot, 2023; 272 pages
Winter 2023
Queer Screams: A History of LGBTQ+ Survival Through the Lens of American Horror Cinema
Abigail Waldron M’20
McFarland & Company, 2022; 231 pages
Fall 2022
The Door-Man
Peter M. Wheelwright ’72
Fomite, 2022; 369 pages
Endangered Species Act: Law, Policy, and Perspectives
Edited by Donald C. Baur ’76 and Ya-Wei Li
American Bar Association, 2021; 551 pages
Phase Six
Jim Shepard ’78
Vintage Books, 2021; 244 pages
The Printer as Author in Early Modern English Book History: John Day and the Fabrication of a Protestant Memory Art
William E. Engel ’80
Routledge, 2022; 220 pages
The Shakespearean Death Arts: Hamlet Among the Tombs
Edited by William E. Engel ’80 and Grant Williams
Palgrave Macmillan, 2022; 346 pages
The Culture of Male Beauty in Britain: From the First Photographs to David Beckham
Paul R. Deslandes ’87
The University of Chicago Press, 2021; 414 pages
The Great Courses: Notorious London: A City Tour [DVDs and Course Guidebook]
Paul R. Deslandes ’87
The Teaching Company, 2021
The Cord
Jim O’Loughlin ’88, P’20
BHC Press, 2022; 242 pages
A Cultural Arsenal for Democracy: The World War II Work of U.S. Museums
Clarissa J. Ceglio M’05
University of Massachusetts Press, 2022; 224 pages
Winter 2022
There Was a Time
George H. Wittman ’51
Casemate Publishers, 2021 (published posthumously); 299 pages
Bricked Bats
Gian Lombardo IDP’80
Quale Press, 2021; 67 pages
The Centaur & The Bacchante
Maurice de Guérin; translated by Gian Lombardo IDP’80
Quale Press, 2021; 78 pages
Asylum: A Memoir of Family Secrets
Judy Bolton-Fasman ’82
Mandel Vilar Press, 2021; 227 pages
Gathering Crowds: Catching Baseball Fever in the New Era of Free Agency
Paul Hensler M’08
Rowman & Littlefield, 2021; 339 pages
Fall 2021
The Constitutional Question to Save the Planet: The People’s Right to a Healthy Environment
Franklin L. Kury ’58
Environmental Law Institute, 2021; 224 pages
The New York Times’ 1619 Project and the Racialist Falsification of History: Essays and Interviews
Edited by David W. Green ’71, under the pen name David North, and Thomas Mackaman
Mehring Books, 2021; 339 pages
Functional Variations in English: Theoretical Considerations and Practical Challenges
Edited by Ram Ashish Giri, Anamika Sharma, and James D’Angelo ’81
Springer, 2020; 340 pages
Funadaiku Nasu Seiichi To Nagaragawa No Ubune Wo Tsukuru (Building the Nagara River Ubune with Boatbuilder Seiichi Nasu)
Douglas Brooks ’82
Tokyo National Research Institute for Cultural Properties, 2020; 131 pages
Spring 2021
The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, Volume Nine, Catastrophe and Rebirth, 1939–1973
Edited by Samuel D. Kassow ’66, Charles H. Northam Professor of History, and David G. Roskies
Yale University Press, 2020; 1,014 pages
Vegetables for Breakfast from A to Z: Change Your Breakfast, Change Your Life
Nancy Wolfson-Moche ’77
Pomegranate Gallery, 2020; 116 pages
Roosevelt and Churchill, The Atlantic Charter: A Risky Meeting at Sea that Saved Democracy
Michael Kluger ’78, P’13 and Richard Evans
Frontline Books, 2021; 203 pages
A Question of Freedom: The Families Who Challenged Slavery from the Nation’s Founding to the Civil War
William G. Thomas III ’86
Yale University Press, 2020; 418 pages
The Last Caucus in Iowa
Jim O’Loughlin ’88
Ice Cube Press, LLC, 2020; 171 pages
Migration, Mobility, and Sojourning in Cross-Cultural Films: Interculturing Cinema
Ishani Mukherjee and Maggie Griffith Williams ’02
Lexington Books, 2021; 166 pages
It Is Wood, It Is Stone
Gabriella Burnham ’09
One World, 2020; 228 pages
Spring 2020
Transnational Mobility and Global Health: Traversing Borders and Boundaries
Peter H. Koehn ’66
Routledge, 2019; 259 pages
The Seven Seat: A True Story of Rowing, Revenge, and Redemption
Daniel J. Boyne ’82
Lyons Press, 2019; 180 pages
The Lion’s Binding Oath and Other Stories
Ahmed Ismail Yusuf IDP ’97
Catalyst Press, 2018; 193 pages
Winter 2020
Kurt Vonnegut Remembered
Edited by Jim O’Loughlin ’88, P’20
The University of Alabama Press, 2019; 242 pages
Daily Life in the Industrial United States, 1870–1900
Julie Husband and Jim O’Loughlin ’88, P’20
ABC-CLOI, LLC, 2019; 289 pages
Why Will No One Play with Me? The Play Better Plan to Help Children of All Ages Make Friends and Thrive
Caroline Maguire ’97, with Teresa Barker
Grand Central Publishing, 2019; 355 pages
Burn the Ice: The American Culinary Revolution and Its End
Kevin Alexander ’03
Penguin Press, 2019; 371 pages
A Frog Hollow Childhood: A Memoir of Hartford
Lynn Davis M’85
Page Publishing, 2019; 168 pages
Bob Steele on the Radio: The Life of Connecticut’s Beloved Broadcaster
Paul Hensler M’08
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2019; 186 pages
Fall 2019
Understanding Connecticut’s Freedom of Information Act
Mark J. Sommaruga ’88
Pullman & Comley, LLC, 2018; 146 pages
An Introduction to Complex Systems: Making Sense of a Changing World
Joe Tranquillo ’97
Springer, 2019; 396 pages
Patience Perseverance Prayer: A Devotional for Entrepreneurs
Russell Fugett ’01
2017; 49 pages
Spring 2019
Hope Is a Small Barn
Gregory LeStage ’88
Antrim House, 2017; 76 pages
The Technoskeptic
Mo Lotman ’91, Editor-in-Chief
Quarterly periodical
Miracle Village
Nadjeda Estriplet ’10
Amazon Digital Services, 2018; 172 pages
Winter 2019
Medicine from Cave Dwellers to Millennials
Jonathan L. Stolz, M.D. ’65
Telemachus Press, 2018; 365 pages
The Heritage We Defend: A Contribution to the History of the Fourth International
David W. Green ’71, under the pen name David North
Mehring Books, 2018; 559 pages
Oh What a Move! Profiles of Hartford Basketball Players 1954–1984
Howard Greenblatt ’71 and Michael Copeland
Fox Hall Press, 2017; 368 pages
Landscapes with Donkey/Paisajes con burro
José Manuel Marrero Henríquez; translated by Ellen Skowronski-Polito ’93
Green Writers Press, 2018; 98 pages
Fall 2018
Gerrymandering: A Guide to Congressional Redistricting, Dark Money, and the U.S. Supreme Court
Franklin L. Kury ’58
Rowman & Littlefield, 2018; 111 pages
Deep Drama: Exploring Life as Theater
Karl E. Scheibe ’59
Palgrave Macmillan, 2017; 215 pages
The Storied Nature of Human Life: The Life and Work of Theodore R. Sarbin
Karl E. Scheibe ’59 and Frank J. Barrett
Palgrave Macmillan, 2017; 321 pages
Why To Kill a Mockingbird Matters: What Harper Lee’s Book and the Iconic American Film Mean to Us Today
Tom Santopietro ’76
St. Martin’s Press, 2018; 305 pages
Spring 2018
Checkers: An Autobiography
Gordon West ’54
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2018; 219 pages
Dylan’s Autobiography of a Vocation: A Reading of the Lyrics 1965–1967
Louis A. Renza ’62
Bloomsbury, 2017; 200 pages
Determinants of Health: An Economic Perspective
Michael Grossman ’64
Columbia University Press, 2017; 806 pages
The Demand for Health: A Theoretical and Empirical Investigation
Michael Grossman ’64
Columbia University Press, 1972, reissued 2017; 172 pages
Snow Raining on Glass: Poems by Lois Mathieu
Lois Mathieu M’77
Antrim House, 2018; 36 pages
The New Boys of Summer: Baseball’s Radical Transformation in the Late Sixties
Paul Hensler M’08
Rowman & Littlefield, 2017; 301 pages
Winter 2018
Dispatches
Deyan Ranko Brashich ’62
New Meridan Arts, 2017; 237 pages
Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Nine Political Wives
Anne Michaud ’82
Ogunquit Press, 2017; 279 pages
The Singing Ship
Rebecca Winterer ’87
Del Sol Press, 2017; 210 pages
Stories of Identity among Black, Middle Class, Second Generation Caribbeans: We, Too, Sing America
Yndia S. Lorick-Wilmot ’99
Palgrave Macmillan/Springer, 2017; 292 pages
The Shiny Penny
Mark L. Barry M’96
Guiding Star Books, 2017, 35 pages
Hopes and Expectations: The Origins of the Black Middle Class in Hartford
Barbara J. Beeching M’96
SUNY Press, 2017; 270 pages
Fall 2017
Errors, Blunders, and Lies: How to Tell the Difference
David S. Salsburg M’63
CRC Press, 2017; 154 pages
Spring 2017
Travels on the Green Highway: An Environmentalist’s Journey
Nathaniel Pryor Reed ’55, H’87
Reed Publishing Company, 2016; 301 pages
Women Under Siege
Lois Mathieu M’77
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016; 282 pages
The Memory Arts in Renaissance England: A Critical Anthology
Edited by William E. Engel ’80, Nick B. Williams Professor of English, Sewanee: The University of the South; Rory Loughnane; and Grant Williams
Cambridge University Press, 2016; 377 pages
The Art of the Bribe: Corruption Under Stalin, 1943–1953
James Heinzen ’84
Yale University Press, 2016; 406 pages
Dean Dean Dean Dean
Jim O’Loughlin ’88, P’20
Twelve Winters Press, 2017; 129 pages
Unleash Possible: A Marketing Playbook that Drives Sales
Samantha Stone ’93
Marketing Advisory Network, 2016; 224 pages
Winter 2017
The Knot of King Gordius
Peter Bundy ’62 and Per Andersen
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016; 248 pages
A Quarter Century of War: The U.S. Drive for Global Hegemony, 1990-2016
David W. Green ’71, under the pen name David North
Mehring Books, 2016; 483 pages
The Frankfurt School, Postmodernism and the Politics of the Pseudo-Left: A Marxist Critique
David W. Green ’71, under the pen name David North
Mehring Books, 2015; 297 pages
The Russian Revolution and the Unfinished Twentieth Century
David W. Green ’71, under the pen name David North
Mehring Books, 2014; 386 pages
The Ferryman Institute
Colin Gigl ’08
Gallery Books, 2016; 426 pages
Fall 2016
The Evolution of Glory Loomis
Michael Bassen ’66
Cedar Grove Publishing, 2015; 354 pages
Getting Better with Age: Improving Marketing in the Age of Aging
Peter B. Hubbell ’81
LID Publishing Inc., 2015; 303 pages
The Old Rush: Marketing for Gold in the Age of Aging
Peter B. Hubbell ’81
LID Publishing Inc., 2014; 166 pages
A Practical Guide to Software Licensing for Licensees and Licensors, 6th Edition
Ward Classen ’82
American Bar Association, 2016; 834 pages
The Tapping Solution: A Revolutionary System for Stress-Free Living
Nick Ortner ’99
Hay House, Inc., 2013; 233 pages
The Tapping Solution for Pain Relief
Nick Ortner ’99
Hay House, Inc., 2015; 220 pages
The Big Book of Hugs: A Barkley the Bear Story
Nick Ortner ’99
Hay House, Inc., 2016; 32 pages
Spring 2016
The Road Taken: The History and Future of America’s Infrastructure
Henry Petroski H’97
Bloomsbury, 2016; 323 pages
Winter 2016
Letter from a Young Poet
Hyam Plutzik ’32 (posthumously)
Trinity College and the Estate of Hyam Plutzik, 2015; 109 pages
Japanese Wooden Boatbuilding
Douglas Brooks ’82
Floating World Editions, 2015; 282 pages
State Capitalism’s Uncertain Future
Scott B. MacDonald ’78 and Jonathan Lemco
Praeger, 2015; 206 pages
In Those Nightmarish Days: The Ghetto Reportage of Peretz Opoczynski and Josef Zelkowicz
Edited by Samuel D. Kassow ’66, Charles H. Northam Professor of History
Yale University Press, 2015; 311 pages
Fall 2015
Apparitions: Architecture That Has Disappeared from Our Cities
John Hughes ’68
The Images Publishing Group, 2015; 156 pages
In the Aftermath of Grief
Harper Follansbee, Jr. ’71
Antrim House, 2015; 73 pages
Ocean and Coastal Law and Policy
Donald C. Baur ’76, Tim Eichenberg, Georgia Hancock Snusz, and Michael Sutton
American Bar Association, 2015; 898 pages
The Euthanist
Alex Dolan ’93
Diversion Books, 2015; 272 pages
Spring 2015
Why Are You Here? A Primer for State Legislators and Citizens
Franklin L. Kury ’58
University Press of America, Inc., 2014; 104 pages
Reconnaissance in Sonora: Charles D. Poston’s 1854 Exploration of Mexico and the Gadsden Purchase
Gilbert Storms ’64
The University of Arizona Press, 2015; 193 pages
Tender is the Night & F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Sentimental Identities
Chris Messenger ’65
The University of Alabama Press, 2015; 281 pages
The Sound of Music Story
Tom Santopietro ’76
St. Martin’s Press, 2015; 324 pages
The Kind Worth Killing
Peter Swanson ’90
William Morrow, 2015; 313 pages
Winter 2015
A Connecticut Yankee in Lincoln’s Cabinet: Navy Secretary Gideon Welles Chronicles the Civil War
Edited by J. Ronald Spencer ’64, Lecturer in History and Associate Academic Dean, Emeritus
The Acorn Club, 2014; 188 pages
Queen of the Valley: The Days of XYZ
Henry F. Stocek, Jr. ’65
Dog Ear Publishing, 2014; 303 pages
Invisible Streets
Toby Ball ’89
The Overlook Press, 2014; 323 pages
Staging the Blues: From Tent Shows to Tourism
Paige A. McGinley ’99
Duke University Press, 2014; 286 pages
Oh How We Danced
Jolene Goldenthal M’69
Bleich/Bear Books, 2013; 229 pages
Doughboys on the Great War: How American Soldiers Viewed Their Military Experience
Edward A. Gutiérrez M’04
University Press of Kansas, 2014; 308 pages
Fall 2014
“Death does seem to have all he can attend to”: The Civil War Diary of an Andersonville Survivor
Edited by Ronald G. Watson ’50
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2014; 246 pages
Sooner: A Crown of Sonnets & New Post-9/11 Poems
Leland Jamieson ’57
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014; 135 pages
Contrary Views: Columns from the Litchfield County Times 2003-2013
Deyan Ranko Brashich ’62
Scrisul Romanesc Foundation–Publisher, 2014; 288 pages
The Correspondence of Thomas Hutchinson, Volume I: 1740-1766
Edited by John W. Tyler ’73
The Colonial Society of Massachusetts, 2014; 625 pages
Machines We Have Built
Gian Lombardo IDP ’80
Quale Press, 2014; 86 pages
Rejected Prophets: Jesus and His Witnesses in Luke-Acts
Jocelyn McWhirter ’82
Fortress Press, 2013; 144 pages
Understanding the Connecticut Freedom of Information Act and Access to Public Meetings and Records
Mark J. Sommaruga ’88
Pullman & Comley, LLC, 2013; 97 pages
The Siege of LZ Kate
Arthur G. Sharp M’72
Stackpole Books, 2014; 233 pages
Germany’s Economic Renaissance: Lessons for the United States
Jack Ewing M’98
Palgrave Macmillan, 2014; 185 pages
The House with Sixteen Handmade Doors: A Tale of Architectural Choice and Craftsmanship
Henry Petroski H’97
W.W. Norton, 2014; 297 pages
Spring 2014
Zen for a Frogman: Other Tales and Poems
Gilbert H. Mackin ’61
Patuxent River Press, 2013; 216 pages
Leadership and Elizabethan Culture
Edited by Peter Iver Kaufman ’68
Palgrave Macmillin, 2013; 238 pages
Religion Around Shakespeare
Peter Iver Kaufman ’68
The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2013; 256 pages
American Painters on Technique: The Colonial Period to 1860
Lance Mayer ’73 and Gay Myers
Getty Publications, 2011; 249 pages
American Painters on Technique: 1860-1945
Lance Mayer ’73 and Gay Myers
Getty Publications, 2013; 298 pages
A History of Land Use in Mongolia: The Thirteenth Century to the Present
Elizabeth Endicott ’74
Palgrave Macmillan, 2012; 228 pages
The Girl with a Clock for a Heart
Peter Swanson ’90
William Morrow, 2014; 292 pages
Africa’s World Cup: Critical Reflections on Play, Patriotism, Spectatorship, and Space
Edited by Peter Alegi ’92 and Chris Bolsmann
The University of Michigan Press, 2013; 256 pages
The Coven: Fire and Ice
Verdell Walker ’09
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013; 454 pages
Love Feeds Among the Lilies
David S. Salsburg M.S. ’63
Black Rose Writing, 2013; 147 pages
Winter 2014
Playing with Einstein: Reflections on E=mc2
Joseph R. Breton ’53
The Foundation for Theoretical Physics, 2013; 114 pages
Legendary Locals of Newtown
Daniel J. Cruson, Jr. ’67
Arcadia Publishing, 2013; 127 pages
Narcissus in Treatment: The Journey from Fate to Psychological Freedom
Richard I. Feinberg ’76
Karnac Books, 2013; 108 pages
Small Gods of Summer
Gregory LeStage ’88
Antrim House, 2013; 72 pages
Flat Water Tuesday
Ron Irwin ’92
St. Martin’s Press, 2013; 355 pages
Wife and War: The Memoir
Amalie Flynn ’98
2013; 409 pages
The Art Lover’s Pocket Guide: Where to View the World’s Great Masterpieces
Henry P. Traverso M’64
iUniverse, 2013; 897 pages
Pygmalion’s Chisel: For Women Who Are “Never Good Enough”
Tracy M. Hallstead M’09
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013; 138 pages
Fall 2013
Home from the Banks
Arthur William Raybold ’52
Wigeon Publishing, 2012; 69 pages
Chasing the Muse: Poems by A L Lieber
Arnold L. Lieber ’59
Xlibris Corporation, 2012; 78 pages
Favorite Words of Famous People
Lewis Burke Frumkes ’61
Marion Street Press, 2011; 125 pages
Great White Fleet: Celebrating Canada Steamship Lines Passenger Ships
John Henry ’61
Dundurn, 2013; 142 pages
Letters from America: Essays with a New York State of Mind
Deyan Ranko Brashich ’62
Scrisul Romanesc Foundation–Publisher, 2013; 263 pages
Deborah Buck: Exhibition Catalog
Deborah Buck ’78
Buck House, 2012; 82 pages
The Four Seasons of Buck House
Deborah Buck ’78
Buck House, 2013; 80 pages
Tableau
Deborah Buck ’78
Buck House, 2009; 82 pages
The Franchise MBA: Mastering the Four Essential Steps to Owning a Franchise
Nick Neonakis ’93
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013; 221 pages
Compassion Commitment Community
Edited by Devika Waney (Mokhtarzadeh) ’96 and Natalie Marr
2012; 103 pages
