Alumni Authors

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Please note this web page covers books published within the last few years and in no way constitutes a comprehensive listing of Binghamton University alumni authors. We will add new books to this page regularly. E-mail us with information about alumni authors who should be included here.

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

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

Ana Aparicio '94 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.

Tom Bailey '91 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.

Seth Bates '98 is 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.

April M. Beisaw, MA ’98, PhD ’07 and James G. Gibb, MA ’85, PhD ’94 edited The Archaeology of Institutional Life (University of Alabama Press, 2009). Owen Lindauer ’79 authored a chapter in the book.

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.

Margot Berwin ’84 published her first novel Hothouse Flower and the Nine Plants of Desire  (Pantheon, 2009). It was optioned as a film by SONY Pictures, and will star Julia Roberts.

Perry Binder '81 is the author of Unlocking Your Rubber Room: 44 Off-the-Wall Lessons to Lighten and Transform Everyday Life (Langdon Street Press, 2009).

Chris Biscuiti ’01 published a poetry book Half a Lifetime More or Less (CreateSpace, 2009).

Patti Breitman '76 is co-author of How to Eat Like a Vegetarian, Even If You Never Want to Be One (Lantern Books, 2008)

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.

Roderick Bush, PhD ’92 is the author of The End of White World Supremacy: Black Internationalism and the Problem of the Color Line (Temple University Press, 2009). He is an associate professor of sociology and anthropology at St. John’s University in New York.

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.

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

Wayne Coffey '76 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."

Samuel Cohen ’95 is the author of After the End of History: American Fiction in the 1990s (University of Iowa Press, 2009). He is an assistant professor of English at the University of Missouri.

Paul M. Collins, Jr., MA ’03, PhD ’05 is an assistant professor of political science at the University of North Texas. He published his first book, Friends of the Supreme Court: Interest Groups and Judicial Decision Making (Oxford University Press, 2008).Mike Hudak '75, PhD '86 wrote Western Turf Wars: The Politics of Public Lands Ranching (Biome Books, 2007).

Michaeline A. Crichlow, MA '84, PhD ’88 is the author of Globalization and the Post-Creole Imagination (Duke University Press, 2009).

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

Jack Dann '69 published Jubilee (Tor Books, 2002), a major retrospective collection of his short fiction. He 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). He  also wrote 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 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 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 published a novel, Suburban Boy, (iUniverse, Inc. 2005). The protagonist Peter is trying to discover a sense of purpose, meaning and abandoned joyfulness.

Ronald G. Ehrenberg '66, professor at Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations and economics director of Cornell Higher Education Research Institute, published Tuition Rising: Why College Costs So Much (Harvard University Press, 2002).

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

John Ernest ’78 wrote Liberation Historiography: African-American Writers and the Challenge of History, 1794-1861 (UNC Press, 2009).  He is Eberly Family Distinguished Professor of American Literature at West Virginia University. 

Marjorie N. Feld '93 published Lillian Wald: A Biography (University of North Carolina Press, 2008). Feld is an assistant professor at Babson College in Babson Park, Mass.

Jeffrey Ford '79, MA '81 wrote 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 co-author of Birthing the Elephant: A Woman's Go-for-it! Guide to Overcoming the Big Challenges of Launching a Business (Ten Speed Press, 2008).

Charles R. Gallagher, MA ’91 wrote Vatican Secret Diplomacy: Joseph P. Hurley and Pope Pius XII (Yale University Press, 2008).

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

Jane Gottlieb ’76 is the author of Music Library and Research Skills (Prentice Hall, 2009).

Laurie (Levine) Graff '76 wrote The Shiksa Syndrome (Broadway, 2008), a book about a Jewish girl who pretends to be a shiksa (non-Jewish woman) to catch a Jewish guy. Laurie also wrote You Have to Kiss a Lot of Frogs (2004) and Looking for Mr. Goodfrog (2006).

Lisa Greenwald '02 wrote My Life in Pink & Green (Amulet Books, 2009).

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

Erik Hage '96, MA '98 is the author of The Words and Music of Van Morrison (Praeger, 2009). Erik is an associate professor of journalism at SUNY Cobleskill.

Roger L. Hall, MA '72 wrote Lincoln and Liberty: Music from Abraham Lincoln's Era (PineTree Press, 2009).

Mike Halperin '68 is the author of True Tales of the Tide (Dorrance Publishing, 2009).

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

Mike Hudak '75, PhD '86 wrote Western Turf Wars: The Politics of Public Lands Ranching (Biome Books, 2007).

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

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

Nick Jezarian ’97, Josh Abraham ’97 and Geoff Wolinetz ’98 are a three-man writing crew known as YankeePotRoast.org. They wrote Underrated (Citadel, 2008).

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

Jesse Kalfel ’71, MS ’76 is the author of So You’re Cremated…Now What? (iUniverse, 2009).

Peter M. Kash '83 is the co-author of Freedom from Disease: The Breakthrough Approach to Preventing Cancer, Heart Disease, Alzheimer's, and Depression by Controlling Insulin (St. Martin's, 2008).  Kash is also the co-author of Restart: Life Tactics for Today's Economy (White River Press, 2009).

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

Steven G. Kellman '67 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 article in the July 25, 2005 edition of The New Yorker.

Patricia Kennealy Morrison ’67 has published the first two books of The Rock & Roll Murders: The Rennie Stride Mysteries, her Sixties murder mystery series: Ungrateful Dead: Murder at the Fillmore (Lizard Queen Press, 2007) and California Screamin’: Murder at Monterey Pop (Lizard Queen Press, 2009). She is also the author of Strange Days: My Life With and Without Jim Morrison and The Keltiad science-fantasy series.

Rob Kirkpatrick, PhD '03 wrote Cecil Travis of the Washington Senators: The War-Torn Career of an All-Star Shortstop (McFarland, 2006). Kirkpatrick is also the editor of The Quotable Sixties (The Lyons Press, 2006), a collection of memorable quotations from this bellwether decade in American culture.

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).

Jonathan Landers '04 is co-author of the science fiction book Set Sail for the Stars (Photon Communications, 2008).

Jennifer E. Langdon, PhD '00 wrote Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood (Columbia University Press, 2009). The book discusses the challenges that Hollywood radicals faced within the studio system.  Scott was a film producer for RKO blacklisted at the peak of his career.

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 published his second novel Dark & Light: A Love Story (Permanent Press, 2006) and Cheater (Dutton, 2008), his second novel for young readers.

Dr. Timothy J. Legg, MS '00 is the co-author of Disaster Nursing (Jones & Bartlett, 2008). The book is designed for nursing students and working nurses; it covers, among other topics, being a first responder, disaster volunteering and disaster preparedness.

David Lemm '02 wrote Regain Control: Financial Endurance For Life (Financial Endurance.com, 2009), a book geared toward surviving the economy through forward financial thinking.

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

Edith Linn ’75 published Arrest Decisions: What Works for the Officer (Peter Lang, 2008), a study of how police officers’ arrest choices are influenced by overtime, post-work commitments and other personal factors. The book is based on her 21 years as a member of the NYPD. She received a doctorate in criminal justice from CUNY Graduate Center in 2004 and is a professor at Berkeley College in Manhattan.

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

William Luis '71 is Chancellor's professor of Spanish at Vanderbilt University. He is the author of Juan Francisco Manzano. Autobiografía del esclavo poeta y otros escritos. (Frankfurt – Madrid: Iberoamericana - Vervuert, 2007).

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).

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

Rafe Martin '66 wrote 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.

William G. Martin ’78, MA, PhD ’85 is co-editor of From Toussaint to Tupac: The Black International since the Age of Revolution (UNC Press, 2009). Martin is a professor of sociology at Binghamton University.

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

Sheila Massoni, PhD ’07 is the author of Morgan: Writing Through Grief (Finishing Line Press, 2009).

Larry N. Mayer '83 published Who will Say Kaddish? A Search for Jewish Identity in Contemporary Poland (Syracuse University Press, 2002) along with photographer Gary Gelb.

Timothy Mayers, MA '90 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.

Dr. Jodi Mindell '84 co-authored a parenting book entitled Take Charge of Your Child's Sleep: The All-in-One Resource for Solving Sleep Problems in Kids and Teens.

Julie Lumpkin Moran '85 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.

Bonnie J. Morris, MA ’85, PhD ’88 published Revenge of the Women’s Studies Professor (Indiana University Press, 2009). She is a member of the faculty in the women’s studies program at George Washington University.

Nathan Naparstek '77 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).

Neil O’Donnell, MA '99 published a fantasy novel, People of the Sword (A-Argus Books, 2009). He lives in Lancaster, N.Y., and teaches critical theory and anthropology courses at Canisius College.

Molly Peacock '69 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,  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 Philion '73 published his first novel Baggattaway (Wordclay, 2009). Modern Chippewa stake their lives on the resurrection of their sacred game (lacrosse) in the 2010 World Championships.

Claire Puccia Parham '01 wrote The St. Lawrence Seaway and Power Project: An Oral History of the Greatest Construction Show on Earth (Syracuse University Press, 2009).

Margi Preus, MA '83 is the author of The Peace Bell (Henry Holt, 2008), a picture book based on the true story of the American-Japanese Friendship Peace Bell.

Rachel Rashkin-Shoot '00 published two self-help books for children and adolescents: Feeling Better: A Kid’s Book about Therapy (APA/Magination Press, 2005) and An Umbrella for Alex (PDAN Press, 2006).

Hillary Raphael '98 published a novel Ximena (Future Fiction London, 2008). She also wrote I Love Lord Buddha, which was adapted for screen.

Karen Remmler '79 is 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.

Kenton Wing Robinson '74 published a poetry collection, The Water Sonnets (Antrim House, 2008). Robinson lives in Connecticut is a career newsman, who writes poems about love and the newspaper business.

Liz Rosenberg, PhD '97 wrote Home Repair (Avon, 2009), her first novel for adults and a Target "Breakout Book" for June 2009.

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

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

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

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

Jeffery Lyle Segal, MA '79 is co-producer and co-author of book, music and lyrics for I Come for Love, a musical presented last fall at the New York Musical Theater Festival. It’s the story of an alien girl in search of romance who crashes her flying saucer at Roswell, N.M., in 1949, and falls for a reporter who thinks she’s a nice, down-to-Earth girl.

Evan Selinger '96 is 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).

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

John J. Sosik '95 is lead author of The Dream Weavers: Strategy-Focused Leadership in Technology-Driven Organizations (Information Age Publishing, 2004). He is also the author of Leading with Character: Stories of Valor and Virtue and the Principles They Teach (Information Age Publishing, 2006).

Art Spiegelman 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.

Robert S. Swiatek '72 published Press 1 for Pig Latin (Swiatek Press, 2008) and Take Back the Earth: The Dumb, Greedy Incompetents Have Trashed It (Swiatek Press, 2008), an Indie Excellence Book Award Finalist.

Deborah A. Symonds, MA '81, PhD '85 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.

Eddie Tafoya, PhD '97 wrote The Legacy of the Wisecrack: Stand-up Comedy as the Great American Literary Form (BrownWalker Press, 2009). He is an associate professor of American literature and creative writing at New Mexico Highlands University in Las Vegas, N.M., and a professional comedian.

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.

Cullen Thomas ’92 wrote Brother One Cell (Viking Adult, 2007), which chronicles his three-year prison term in South Korea. The story was scheduled to be part of an episode of “Locked Up Abroad” on the National Geographic Channel. Thomas discussed his book at Landmark on Main Street in his hometown of Port Washington, N.Y.

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.

Chris Voparil '91, MA '93 published 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.

Napoleon Wells '02 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.

Henry Weinfield, MA ’73 published The Music of Thought in the Poetry of George Oppen and William Bronk (University of Iowa Press, 2009).

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

George Zebrowski '95 is the author of Empties (Golden Gryphon Press, 2009).

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