Alumni Authors Collection
The Tudor Library at the Dahod Family Alumni Center proudly showcases the Alumni Authors Collection, a wonderful assortment of books authored by BU alumni. Generously donated by our talented graduates, these literary gems await your discovery. Take a glimpse into the captivating world of authors featured in the Collection and then head over to the Center to indulge in one (or two).
Biography, autobiography, and memoir
- Matthew N. Lupsha (GRS’81) Olly Olly Oxen Free
- Gillian Guzman (UNI’90) Helen Suzman
- Janet Ruth Young (GRS’87) New York Year: Burglars Bedbugs, Broadway
- Thomas Denenberg (GRS’95,’02)
- Wallace Nutting and the Invention of Old America
- Weatherbeaten Winslow Homer and Maine
- Col Owens (LAW’77) Bending the Arc Towards Justice
- Jennifer Martelli (Wheelock’84) My Tarantella | The Queen of Queens
- Ariel Burger (UNI’08) Witness
- Sheila Cordner (GRS’12) Who’s Hiding In This Book? Meet Ten Famous Authors
- Stephen Davis (CFA’69) Golden Dust Woman The Biography of Stevie Nicks
- Patrick Diamond (Wheelock’73) The Incredible Joy of Collecting African American Art
- Thomas J. Mickey (COM’73) All About Flowers
- Thomas W. Jones (Questrom’78) From Willard Straight to Wall Street
- Bernice Lerner (Wheelock’01) All the Horors of War
- Clare Hodgson Meeker (CFA’75)
- Partner in Revolution
- I Could Not Keep Silent
- Matthew Phillips (COM’93) Everything but Snakes
- Anthony Tommasini (CFA’82) The Indespensable Composers
- Irene Goldman-Price (GRS’86) My Dear Governess
- Joanne Lannin (COM’85) Who Let Them In?
- Katz-Darby Audrey (CAS’62) Koci (1904-1983)
Children's & young adult
- Amy Evans (CAS’80) I love You, Eugene (2021)
- Audry Lynch (Wheelock’67) Ruben’s Tales from the Amazon Jungle
- Clare Hodgson Meeker (CFA’75)
- A Tale of Two Rice Birds
- Arctic Journey
- Charge Ahead
- Lootas: Little Wave Eater
- Manorah The Bird Princess
- Who Wakes Rooster
- Hansa: The True Story of an Asian Elephant Baby
- Raakhee Mirchandani (CGS’01, COM’03) Super Satya Saves The Day
- Ralph Tufo (Wheelock’75) Seemore the Seagull
- William Mannetti (CAS ’69) Hog Wash
Educational
- Richard Ekstrom (Questrom’68) The Backwards Dictionary
- Amy Evans (CAS’80) Solstice Celebrations, History, Crafts, Food (2017)
- Thomas L. Higgins (CAMED’78, CAS’78)
- Cardiopulmonary Critical Care
- The High Risk Patient: Management of the Critically Ill
- Stewart O’Nan (ENG’83) On Writers and Writing (Edited by O’Nan)
- Carla Meskill (Wheelock’82, ’88) Digital Screen Mediation in Education
- Darcy Devney (COM’86) Organizing Special events and Conferences
- Catherine Burns (COM’91) How to Tell a Story
- Anne Wheelock (SSW’75)
- Locked in/Locked out: Tracking and Placement Practices in BPS
- The Way Out: Student Exclusion Practices in Boston Middle Schools
- Before It’s Too Late: Dropout Prevention in the Middle Grades
- Safe to Be Smart: Building a Culture for Standards-bbaWheelock reform in the Middle Grades
- Crossing the Tracks; how Untracking can Save America’s Schools
- Dirk Baker (CGS’89, COM’91, Wheelock’93,’98) Baseball and Softballs Drills
- David Biespiel (CAS’86) Every Writer Has a Thousand Faces
- Hallie M. Franks (CAS’01) The World Underfoot
- Jan Karlin (CFA’78) What’s Next?
- Michael Luca (GRS’10,’11) & Max H. Bazerman The Power of Experiments
- Steven McFadden (COM’75) Deep Agroecology
- Philip Napoli (COM’94) Social Media and the Public Interest
- Katie Novak (Wheelock’09) & Caitlin Tucker UDL and Blended Learning
- Karen Panetta (ENG’85) & Katianne Williams Count Girls In
- Christopher Shelley (CFA’92) Best Ceremony Ever
- Michael Luca (Questrom’91) The power of Experiments
- Joseph M. Bagley (CAS’06) Boston’s Oldest Buildings and Where to Find Them
- Nancy Rivenburgh (COM’82) Envisioning Better Cities
- Lisa Hinrichsen (GRS’07,’08) Remediating Region
- Max A. Greenberg (Wheelock’17) 12 Weeks to Change a Life
- Harlan Russell Green (COM’81) Building Community
- Don Colliver (COM’94) Wink
- David Glusker (STH’68) & Thom Blackstone Words for New Weddings
- Kevin O’Connor (Questrom’99) The Best Homes from This Old House
- Frederick Romano (CAS’85,’86) The golden age of Boxing on Radio and Television
Fantasy & science-fiction
- Tom Bartlett (Wheelock’88) Sailing from Plymouth
- Tulasi Srinivas (UNI’01) The Cow In the Elevator
Historical fiction
- Stewart O’Nan (ENG’83) A Good Day to Die
- Lincoln Phillips (Pardee’76) The Interact Configuration
- Alice Lichtenstein (GRS’83) The Crime of Being
- Rishi Reddi (GRS’01) Passage West
- Amy Weintraub (CAS’73) Temple Dancer
- Xuefei Jin (GRS’93)
- War Trash
- Waiting
- Susan Chan Egan (Questrom’81) & Pai Hsien-Young A Companion To The Story of the Stone
- Daphne Kalotay (GRS’94, UNI’98) Blue Hours
- Corinne Joy Brown (CFA’71) Hidden Star
- Xuefei Jin (GRS’93) A Song Everlasting
Historical nonfiction
- Edward L. Bell (CAS’85, GRS’87) Persistence of Memories of Slavery and Emancipation in Historical Andover
- Thomas L. Higgins (CAMED’78, CAS’78)
- Images of America: Longmeadow, Massachusetts
- Images of America: Baystate Franklin medical Center
- Images of America: Baystate Medical Center
- Stewart O’Nan (ENG’83) Faithful (written w Stephen King)
- Michael Van Buskirk (CAMED’68)
- The Van Buskirks of Indiana, Western Migration from new Netherlands
- Daughter, Doctor, Resurrections. A true story about medical body snatching in 19th century america
- Elizabeth G Macalaster (COM’78) War Pigeons: Winged couriers in the US Military, 1878-1957
- Leigh Lewis (Questrom’02) Pirate Queens: Dauntless Women Who Dared to Rule the High Seas
- Priscilla Donham (Wheelock’60)
- The Voyages of Arthur Blackwell Mitchell
- Fitting In, a horse’s tale
- Frederick Romano (CAS’85,’86) The Boxing Filmography
- Gabriel Donio (CAS’95) Images of America: Hammonton
- Norman Finkelstein (Wheelock’63,’64,’83) The Shelter and The Fence
- Silas K. Baker (ENG’56) Descendants of William Baker, Jr. (d. Concord, MA, 1702)
- Thomas Denenberg (GRS’95,’02) Painting a Nation
- John P. Mason (GRS’71)
- Left-Handed in An Islamic World
- Island of the Blest: Islam in a Libran Oasis Community
- Seth Blumenthal (GRS’13) Children of the Silent Majority
- Rachel Carnell (GRS’89,’95) Backlash: libel, impeachment, and populism in the reign of queen anne
- Abigail Carroll (GRS’07) Three Squares: The invention of the American Meal
- Leslie Epstein (Par SSW’98) Hill of Beans
- Peggy Gavan (MET’12) The Cat Men of Gotham
- Mary Ann Mayer (SAR’78) Kissing The Shuttle: A Lyric History
- Nadija Mujagic (MET’19) Ten thousand Shells & Counting
- David Netherton (CAS’70) The Persistance of Liberty: An American Philosophy
- Lyle Nyberg (LAW’73) Summer Suffragists
- James R. Turcotte (CAS’80, CGS’78) Four Brothers From Lowell
- Timothy D. Walker (GRS’90,’01) Sailing to Freedom
- Kenneth Partridge (Par CAS’03) Hell of a hat
- Katherine J. Chen (GRS’22) Joan
- Cheryl C. Boots (GRS’94,STH ’14) Singing for Equality
Inspirational, self-help, & religious books
- Charlene Marie-Laure Vincent (STH’11) Return from Exile
- James Farber (Questrom’85) Some People are stupid, but not you
- Constance Lanseigne-Case (Wheelock’56,’67) A rewarding life
- Helen Robinson (CAS’71) In the Heave of a Sigh
- Amy Evans (CAS’80) Fantastically Fabulous February, Recalibrate, Recharge, Renew (2015)
- Kelle Keyles (CGS’17, CAS’18) Adrift
- Deborah Katchko Gray (Wheelock’79) Book 1: 3 Generations of Cantorial Art Book 2: Prayerful Creations
- Darcy Devney (COM’86) The Volunteer’s Survival Manual: the only practical guide to giving your time and money
- Kathryn Ellis (SAR’19) Sex and Intimacy for Wounded Veterans: a Guide to Embracing Change
- Cynthia Wilcox (SSW’67) Simple Therapy Snippets
- Peter H Davies (GRS’94) A Lie Someone Told You About Yourself
- Dan Dworkis (CAMED’13) The Emergency Mind
- Isaac Mamaysky (LAW’08) Letter to a One L Friend
- Dora Mwangi (CGS’12, Questrom’14) Little Fires That Float
- Jill Sherer Murray (COM’88) Big Wild Love
- Sue William Silverman (CGS’66, COM’68) How to survive death and other inconveniences
- Christine R. Lund (CAS’84) Me and Her Shadow
- Terri Bacow (GRS’02,’08) Goodbye Anxiety
- Scott Burnham (COM’91) This Could …
- Edwin Fuller (Questrom’68) You Can’t Lead With Your Feet On The Desk
- Ellen Louise Lafleche (CAS’75) Walking into Lightening
- Reverend Gilbert H. Caldwell (STH’58) Something Within
- Spencer C. Reese (CAS’10) The Military Money Manual
- Daphne Kalotay (GRS’94 UNI’98) Blue Hours
- Alice Stephens (CGS ’87, CAS’89) Famous Adopted People
- Shelby Raebeck (GRS’87) Sparrow Beach
Poetry and short essays
- Catherine Burns (COM’91)
- The Moth Presents Occasional Magic
- The Moth Presents All These Wonders
- The Moth
- Tom Bartlett (Wheelock’88) Songs from the Lifeboats
- Susan Barba (GRS’12) Geode
- Willy Conley (GRS’91) Listening Through The Bone
- Marcia Karp (UNI’96,02) If By Song
- Sue William Silverman (COM’68) If the Girl Never Learns
- Lee Varon (CAS’72) Letters to a Pedophile
- James R. Whitley (SPH’94) Songs for Solo Voice
- Leanne Hoppe (CAS’13, GRS’15) Take A Teacher, Make A Friend
- Max Heinegg (Wheelock’98) Good Harbor
- Gian Lombardo (GRS’81) Bricked Bats
- Xuefei Jin (GRS’93) A Distant Center
- Miriam Levine (CAS’11) Saving Daylight
- Giovanni Zelko (COM’96 ) Book of Poetry
Romance
- Amy Evans (CAS’80) Resin, A novel (2017)
- Lilian Li (COM’21) House of Koi
- Nicole Trilivas (COM’05) Girls Who Travel
- Stewart O’Nan (ENG’83) A World Away
- Amy Gallant Sullivan (COM’96) Pleasing my Italian Grnadma: The Holy Trinity – Pasta, Church, and Men
- Molly McCloskey (GRS’19) Straying
- Shawna Rodrigues (SSW’02) Beyond the Pear Blossoms
Thriller, mystery, and true crime
- Stewart O’Nan (ENG’83)
- The Good Wife
- The Night Country
- Bev Kaukas (COM’68) & Bruce M. Kaukas (CFA’68)
- Thoreau in Phantom Bog
- Thoreau on Wolf Hill
- Thoreau on Devil’s Perch
- Lincoln Phillips (Pardee’76) Stop the Americans
- Ed Fuller (Questrom’68) Red Hotel
- Stephen Barry (CFA’66) Blink Factor
- Mark Bergin (COM’88) Apprehension
- J.L Doucette (Wheelock’78,’84) On A Quiet Street
- Erica Ferencik (GRS’89) Into the Jungle
- David Ricciardi (CAS’89)
- Rouge Strike
- Black Flag
- Diana Rodriguez Wallach (COM’00) Lies that Bind
- Kevin Chapman (LAW’86) Righteous Assassin
- Erica Ferencik (GRS’89) Girl in Ice
- Douglas Starr (COM’83) The Killer of Little Shepards
- Casey Sherman (COM’93) Hell Town
- Stewart O’Nan (ENG’83)
- Emily, Alone
- Snow Angels
- Everyday People
- Songs for the Missing
- The Speed Queen
- The Names of the Dead
- In the Walled City
- A Prayer for the Dying
- Ocean State
- The Odds
- Henry, Himself
- Wish You Were Here
- West of Sunset
- Last Night at the Lobster
- City of Secrets
- The Circus Fire
- Jonathan Wallach (CAS’92) The Speed of Water
To donate your book and share your literary achievement with the BU community, kindly send a copy to the following address:
Boston University Alumni Association Dahod Family Alumni Center
225 Bay State Road
Boston, MA 02215