B-CC Alumni Authors

Jack P. Hailman (’54) and Elizabeth Davis Hailman (’54)—Hiking Circuits in Rocky Mountain National Park (University Press of Colorado, 2003); Backpacking Wisconsin (University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, 2000.)

Vernon M. Briggs (’55)—Mass Immigration and the National Interest: Policy Directions for the New Century (M.E. Sharpe: 2003)

Robert G. Krieger Sr. (’57)—A Reference Guide to Practical Electronics (McGraw Hill, 1981.)

Dr. Virginia THOMAS Brew Barnes (’58) & Michael McCabe—Exploring Arizona; Exploring California; Exploring Colorado

Diana Drake DeLanoy (’58)—Directory of Academic Library Consortia. This book enables libraries nationwide to share resources within a regionally logical network or grouping.

Dr. Robin HALL Hansen (’58)—Fox and Geese and Fences: A Collection of Traditional Maine Mittens; Knit Mittens: 15 Cool Patterns to Keep You Warm; Lost and Found Mittens; Sunny's Mittens: Learn-To-Knit Lovikka Mittens; Whistling with Olives: 54+ Plus Things to Do at Dinner Besides Eating (A delightful, quirky compendium of dinner table tricks for those of us who realize you're never too old to play with your food...or fold your napkin into a pet rat..."break" your nose on the table (great for impressing small children)...or explain solar eclipses using simple items at hand.)

Dr. Robin HALL Hansen (’58), Annette Spence & Camille Cusumano—Christmas: A Celebration; & Janetta Dexter—Flying Geese and Partridge Feet: More Mittens from Up North and Down East; & Birgitta Dandanell & Ulla Danielsson (translated)—Twined Knitting

Paul Heintz (aka Mr. Baron ’58)—Flying For Fun. This book is for anyone interested in flying: It is an aviation enthusiast`s sampler about the fun of flying airplanes.

Hal Isen (’58)—The Genesis Principle: A Journey into the Source of Creativity and Leadership

Dr. Sara GREENE Kiesler (’58)—Computing and Change on Campus; Culture of the Internet (ed. 1997). This book chronicles the computerization of Carnegie-Mellon University, now perhaps the most computer-intensive university in the world. Drawing on the results of an extensive and systematic research program, Sara Kiesler and other colleagues describe how available resources, behavior, and attitudes to computing evolved campus-wide over the period from 1981 to 1985.

Dr. Sara GREENE Kiesler (’58) & C. Kiesler—Conformity (1969); & R. Fogel, E. Hatfield & E. Shanas, (eds.)—Aging: Stability and change in the family (1981); & J. McGaugh (eds.)—Aging: Biology and behavior (1981); & J. Morgan & V. Oppenheimer (eds.)—Aging: Social Change (1981); & Lee Sproull—Connections: New ways of working in the networked organization (1991); & P. Hinds (eds.)—Distributed work (2002), Human Robot Interaction (forthcoming)

James G. Merrill (’58)—When Work Equals Life: The Next Stage in Workplace Violence. This book provides the reader with an understanding of why violence has occurred in work places, the warning signs and how organizations can reduce the possibilities of violence occurring in their organizations.

Rose JACOBSON Novak [under her nom de plume Marcia Rose] (’58)—Music of Love (1980), Second Changes (1981), Choices (1982), Connections (1983), Admissions (1984), Summer Times (1985), All for the Love of Daddy (1987), Songs My Father Taught Me (1989), A House of Her Own (1990), Hospital (1993), Like Mother, Like Daughter (1994), Nurses (1996), A Time to Heal (1998), Prince of Ice

(I. Stockton) Keith Reeves, V, FAIA (’58)—Architects Design Group., Inc.: 30 Years Of Design Excellence; Color and Its Effect on Behavior; Dunlawton: A Florida Sugar Mill Plantation; From the Spirits: Native Arts of The Americas; The People: Art Of Native Americans; & Gendon Herbert—The Koreshan Unity Settlement: 1884-1977 The book was the recipient of a Progressive Architecture Award for Research.

Dr. Louise NIGH Trygstad, PhD (’58), J.A.Garafalo-Ford, and B. Crew-Nelms—Applied Decision Making for Nurses (1979); & S. Jasmin—Behavioral Concepts in the Nursing Process (1979); & V. Baillie, and T. Cordoni—Effective Nursing Leadership (1989)

Sandy FOULIS Waugaman ('58)—Poor Man's Philanthropist: The Thomas Cannon Story (Palari Publishing, 2004); & Danielle Moretti-Langholtz, PhD—We're Still Here: Contemporary Virginia Indians Tell Their Stories (Palari Publishing, 2000)

Susan SCHADE Ward (’58) & Suzanne Farnham—Listening Hearts: Discerning Call in Community

Philip Katcher (’59)—The American Soldier; Armies of the American Wars, 1753-1815; Battle History of the Civil War; American Civil War Sourcebook; Brassey's Almanac American Civil War; The Army of Robert E. Lee; Lethal Glory; Great Gambles of the Civil War; Lincoln's Unsung Heros, The Army of Northern Virginia; Building the Victory; Sharpshooters of the Civil War; Encyclopedia of Briths, Provincial, and German Army Units, 1775-1783.

Kay Mills (’59)—A Place in the News: From the Women's Pages to the Front Pages (Dodd Mead, 1988); A Place in the News (Columbia University Press, 1990); This Little Light of Mine: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer (Plume, 1994); From Pocahontas to Power Suits: Everything You Need to Know About Women's History in America (Plume, 1995); Something Better for My Children: How Head Start Has Changed the Lives of Millions of Children (Plume, 1999); Changing Channels: The Civil Rights Case That Transformed Television (University Press of Mississippi, 2004).

Susan R. Rhodes, Ph.D. ('59) and Richard M. Steers—Managing Employee Absenteeism (Addison-Wesley, 1990); & Mildred Doering and Michael Schuster—The Aging Worker: Research and Recommendations (Sage, 1983).

Margaret George (’60)—The Autobiography of King Henry VIII (St. Martin's Griffin, 1986), Mary, Queen of Scotland and The Isles (St. Martin's Press, 1992); The Memoirs of Cleopatra (St. Martin's Publishing Group, 1997); Mary Called Magdalene (Viking, 2002); Helen of Troy (Viking Adult, 2006); Lucille Lost (Viking Juvenile, 2006), a children's book; Elizabeth I (Viking, 2011); The Confessions of Young Nero (Berkley, 2017), and its sequel, The Splendor Before the Dark (Berkley, 2018).

Margaret Hertz Brodkin ('61)—Every Kid Counts: 31 Ways to Save Our Children

Robert V. Friedenberg ('61)—Hear O Israel: The History of American Jewish Preaching 1654-1970 (University of Alabama Press,1989); Theodore Roosevelt and the Rhetoric of Militant Decency (Greenwood Press,1990); Rhetorical Studies of National Political Debates: 1960-1992 (Praeger, 1994); Rhetorical Studies of National Political Debates: 1996 (Praeger, 1997); Communication Consultants in Political Campaigns: Ballot Box Warriors (Praeger, 1997); Notable Speeches in Contemporary Presidential Campaigns (Praeger, 2002);
        & Judith S. Trent—Political Campaign Communication: Principles and Practices, fifth edition (Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2004).

Joe W. Haldeman (’61)—Cosmic Laughter, Science Fiction for the Fun of It, improbable people and zany machines are introduced in this collection of nine lighthearted tales (Henry Holt & Co., 1974); Forever War (St. Martins Press, 1974, Ballantine Books 1976, Berkley Pub Group, 1983); Mindbridge, interstellar colonization pioneer Jacques Lefavre is charged with finding an alternative to the imminent war of extinction (St. Martins Press, 1976); All My Sins Remembered interplanetary agent Otto McGavin must find himself among thirty-six unpleasant identities (St. Martins Press, 1977); Worlds: A Novel of the Near Future (Viking Press, 1981); Worlds Apart (Viking Press, 1983); Worlds Enough and Time: The Conclusion of the Worlds Trilogy (William Morrow & Co., 1992); The Forever War 3 (Nbm Pub Co., 1992); Saul's Death and Other Poems, (Anamnesis Press, 1996); Forever Peace (Ace Books, 1997); Forever Free (Ace Books, 1999, 2000); The Coming (Ace Books, 2000, 2001); Worlds (Avon Books, 1990, Victor Gollancz, 2002); Guardian (Ace Books, 2002).

Judith (Footer) Barr (’63)—Power Abused, Power Healed. Subtitle: Power, like lightning, is a raw, vibrant force of nature . . . with the potential for great harm and the possibility for magnificent good (Mysteries of Life, 2007). Weaving fairy tale with current life events, Judith reveals teachings about the misuse and abuse of power – and the vast healing that is possible individually and globally. In the first story, which relates how Judith came to write her book, Judith gives tribute to Charlie, her Student Government Executive Committee advisor . . . in actuality Charles Bryant, whom she had tried unsuccessfully to find over the years to thank him for the part he played in her life. Judith can be reached through her website: www.PowerAbusedPowerHealed.com

Geoff Kurland, M.D. (’63)—My Own Medicine: A Doctor's Life as a Patient, published 9/2002 by Times Books/Henry Holt, a memoir of the author's experience as a physician with a life-threatening illness (an unusual form of leukemia), favorably reviewed by the Sunday New York Times in October, 2002 and was also in the "Briefly Noted" section of the New Yorker in November, 2002. It is not a "How-to-Survive-Leukemia book..."

Dale C. Moss (’63)—We, the Japanese People: World War II and the Origins of the Japanese Constitution (Stanford University Press, 2002, published under author's former married name, Dale M. Hellegers.) "Based on scores of interviews with participants in the process, as well as exhaustive research in Japanese and American records, the book explores in vivid detail the thinking and intentions behind the drafting of the constitution" - Stanford University Press Winner of the 2002 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award.

Jeffrey Saint John Stuart (’63)—Twilight Teams, a historical account of the last season of the 1952 Boston Braves, 1953 St. Louis Browns, 1954 Philadelphia A's, 1957 New York Giants, 1957 Brooklyn Dodgers, and 1972 Washington Senators.

William K.S. Wang (’63)—Insider Trading (1996 & Supplement), originally published by Little, Brown & Co., a legal treatise discussing the various laws regulating insider trading and compliance programs that companies should adopt.

Paul Blustein (’69)—And the Money Kept Rolling In (and Out): Wall Street, the IMF, and the Bankrupting of Argentina (PublicAffairs, 2006) - Washington Post reporter covering the Argentinean crisis in 2001 learned how the country was encouraged to pile on more debt and the resulting crisis; The Chastening: Inside The Crisis That Rocked The Global Financial System And Humbled The IMF (PublicAffairs, 2001). Lael Brainard, member Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Review Essayy, Brookings: An accessible account of one of the most significant financial episodes of our generation, the Chastening follows the IMF’s managers from the early days of the Thai crisis in May 1997 through the contagion that beset Indonesia, South Korea, and eventually Russia, then to the gyrations that swept through U.S. financial markets and brought down Long Term Capital Management, and ends with Brazil’s financial stabilization in April 1999. The Chastening The Chastening follows the IMF’s managers from the early days of the Thai crisis in May 1997 through the contagion that beset Indonesia, South Korea, and eventually Russia, then to the gyrations that swept through U.S. financial markets and brought down Long Term Capital Management, and ends with Brazil’s financial stabilization in April 1999.

Linda Reid (Yolanda Stassinopoulos (’70) and Deborah Shlian—Dead Air (Ocean Publishing, 2009)

Tamara Meyer (’72)—Help Your Baby Build A Healthy Body (Crown Publishers, Japan Uni Agency, 1984)

Paul Karasik (’74) and Judy Karasik—The Ride Together: A Brother and Sister's Memoir of Autism in the Family.

Steven Feldman (’76)—Compartments: How the Brightest, Best Trained, and Most Caring People Can Make Judgments That Are Completely and Utterly Wrong (2010)

Julia Slavin ('77)—The Woman Who Cut Off Her Leg at the Maidstone Club: and Other Stories (Henry Holt & Co., 1999; Picador, 2000);Tin House (Squatters) (Volume 5) (Tin House, 2004); Carnivore Diet: A Novel (W. W. Norton & Co., 2005).

David Simon (’78) and Edward Burns—The Corner: A Year in the Life of An Inner City Neighborhood, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and HBO miniseries.

A.M. Homes (’79)—Things You Should Know, The Safety of Objects which is being made into a movie starring Glenn Close and Dermot Mulroney, and Jack which is going into production at Showtime.

Sandy Burke (’80)—Let the River Run Silver Again! How One School Helped Return the American Shad to the Potomac River (McDonald & Woodward, 2005).

Tracy Chevalier (’80)—Girl With a Pearl Earring (no. 1 on the New York Times paperback fiction bestseller list in 2001) and Falling Angels.

Laurie Strongin (’83)—Saving Henry (2010), an account of the author's experience giving birth to and raising a boy with a rare chromosomal disease: the medical and ethical issues her family confronted and, most importantly, the lessons learned from a young boy who faced immeasurable challenges but lived his life to the very fullest.

Aaron Mendelsohn (’84)—Creator and screenwriter of Disney's Air Bud movies, among other feature films, television movies and series; screenwriter of Action Abramowitz, bought by New Line and shooting this spring, starring Ray Romano; currently writing Twice in a Lifetime for James Cameron.

Laura Hillenbrand (’85)—Seabiscuit - An American Legend (no. 1 on the New York Times hardcover nonfiction bestseller list in 2001) which is being made into a movie by Universal Studios starring Tobey Maguire and Jeff Bridges.

Sarah Pekkanen (’85)—The Opposite of Me (2010), a fictional account of the experiences of twin sisters who have very different looks and personalities.

Jennifer Toth (’85)—The Mole People: Life in the Tunnels Beneath New York City, Orphans of the Living, and What Happened to Johnnie Jordan - The Story of a Child Turning Violent.

Matthew Zapruder (’85)—American Linden, a book of poetry which won the 2001 Tupelo Press Editor's Prize; The Pajamist (2006).

Stefanie Zadravec (’86)—Honey Brown Eyes, a play about the war in Bosnia, was a finalist for the 2007 Smith Prize and a semi-finalist for the 2008 Princess Grace Award, and its world premiere at Theater J in Washington DC in the fall of 2008.

Michael Lowenthal (’87)—The Same Embrace (Dutton, '98), and Avoidance (Graywolf, '02).

Mariam Naficy (’87)—The Fast Track: The Insider's Guide to Winning Jobs in Management Consulting, Investment Banking and Securities Trading.

Alexandra Zapruder (’87)—Salvaged Pages: Young Writers' Diaries of the Holocaust.

Matthew von Unwerth (’88)—Freud's Requiem: Memory, Mourning, and the Invisible History of a Summer Walk (Riverhead/Penguin, 2005)

Yassy Naficy (’89)—Author and screenwriter of The Rogue, a political thriller, to be released in 2012 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1060269/ More information on Yassy Naficy at http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2202390/bio.

Matthew von Unwerth (’88)—Freud’s Requiem: Memory, Mourning and the Invisible History of a Summer Walk (Riverhead/Penguin, 2005).

Seth Resnik (’90) and Ron Moskovitz—were awarded the 20th anniversary Don and Gee Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting for their work Fire in a Coal Mine in 2005.

Sarah Erdman (’92)—Nine Hills to Nambonkaha: Two Years in the Heart of an African Village, a book based on her two years working as a Peace Corp volunteer in a West African village (Picador, 2004).

Molly Blank (’94)—Testing Hope, a film about education in South Africa, was screened on March 15, 2008 at the DC International Film Festival (www.testinghope.com.)

Michael Shipler (’95)—The Dancing Country and Other Stories.

Carolyn Feigenbaum (ESOL Department 1981-1999)—A Bench in London: The Story of an American Soldier (2012), a children's book about an American soldier from Chicago who served in the US Army in London during World War II. The book is illustrated by Jordan Cutler (’96) and edited by Deborah Kalb (’81).