Rachel Adelson ('73)

Ms. Adelson has written a book entitled Staying Power:  Age-Proof Your Home for Comfort, Safety and Style.

Richard B. Ancowitz ('75)

Mr. Ancowitz has co-authored and served as editor-in-chief for numerous editions of Weitz on Automobile Litigation: The No-Fault Handbook.

Judith Baumel ('73) 

Ms. Baumel has written three books of poetry, The Weight of Numbers, Now, and The Kangaroo Girl.

Leonard Berger ('60)

Mr. Berger, has published an e-book of baseball poetry entitled, Coming Home: Baseball Poetry, authored under the name of Len Berger.

Patricia Coyne (Devaney) ('77)

Ms. Coyne has authored a new book, Schaum's Outline of Maternal-Newborn Nursing.

John Curl ('58)

Mr. Curl's books include For All The People: Uncovering the Hidden History of Cooperation, Cooperative Movements, and Communalism in America, Ancient American Poets (translations of Aztec, Maya, and Inca poets), Memories of Drop City (novelistic memoir), and Revolutionary Alchemy (poetry)

Miles David ('43)

Samuel R. (Chip) Delany ('60)

Mr. Delany is the author of numerous books including The Jewels of Aptor, The Towers of Toron, Captives of the Flame, City of a Thousand Suns, and many more.

E.L. Doctorow ('48)

Mr. Doctorow's novels include The March, City of God, The Waterworks, Welcome to Hard Times, The Book of Daniel, Ragtime, Loon Lake, Lives of the Poets, World's Fair, and Billy Bathgate.

 Ralph Adam Fine ('58)

Justice Fine's books include Mary Jane versus Pennsylvania, The Great Drug Deception, Escape of the Guilty, The How-To-Win Trial Manual, The How-To-Win Appeal Manual.

Peter Feibelman ('59)

Mr. Feibelman is the author of A PhD is Not Enough - A Guide to Survival in Science, a book on what it takes to get from a doctorate to a career in research.

Eric Frankel ('65)

Dr. Frankel is one of the editors and authors of, The Handbook of Food-Drug Interactions published in 2003 by CRC Press.

Raj Goel ('88)

Mr. Goel has published his first book entitled The Most Important Secrets for Getting Great Results from IT: Everything Your Computer Consultant Never Told You.

Marc Hirsch ('63)

Dr. Hirsch has published a novel called The Case.

Bart K. Holland ('73)

Dr. Holland has published four books so far, all from the Johns Hopkins University Press. These include "What Are The Chances? Voodoo Deaths, Office Gossip, and Other Adventures in Probability" (for the general public) and "Probability Without Equations: Concepts for Clinicians" (for medical students). Two are French-to-English translations: "Debunked! ESP, Telekinesis, and Other Pseudoscience" by Nobel laureate Georges Charpak, and a book by historian Patrice Bourdelais, "Epidemics Laid Low: A History of What Happened in the Rich Countries."

Elia Katz ('65)

Mr. Katz has authored a book, Armed Love, first published in 1971, it is a description of the author's experience in America's communes.

Paul Kirschner, ('68)

Mr. Kirschner has authored two books, Visualizing Argumentation and Ten Steps to Complex Learning, and Computer Supported Collaborative Learning. 

Peter Klein ('83)

Mr. Klein has a published a book entitled A Passion for Giving: Tools and Inspiration for Creating a Charitable Foundation.

David Kusnet ('69)

Mr. Kusnet is the author of several books including Love the Work, Hate the Job: Why America’s Best Workers Are More Unhappy than Ever and Speaking American: How the Democrats Can Win in the ‘90s.

Gerhard Loewenberg ('45) 

Mr. Loewenberg has published a memoir entitled Moved by Politics.

Andrew Lo ('77)

MIT Professor Lo has authored Hedge Funds: An Analytic Perspective (Advances in Financial Engineering).

Joseph Lelyveld ('54)

Mr. Lelyveld is a Pulitzer Prize winner and the author of several books including Omaha Blues: A Memory Loop; Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White; Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle with India.

William Millberg ('70)

Mr. Milberg has co-authored a book, The Essentials of Neuropsychological Assessment.

Morton D. Paley ('52)

Mr. Paley is the author of several books including Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the Fine Arts; The Traveller in the Evening: The Last Works of William Blake; Coleridge's Later Poetry; Portraits of Coleridge; The Continuing City: William Blake's "Jerusalem"; The Apocalyptic Sublime.

Richard Price ('67)

Mr. Price is the author of several screenplays and many novels including The Wanderers, Bloodbrothers, Ladies' Man, The Breaks, Clockers, and Freedomland.

Dr. Charles E. Rosenberg ('52)

Dr. Rosenberg has authored the following books: The Cholera Years: The United States in 1832, 1849 and 1866; The Trial of the Assassin Guiteau: Psychiatry and Law in the Guilded Age; The Care of Strangers: The Rise of America's Hospital System; Explaining Epidemics; No Other Gods. On Science and American Social Thought; Our Present Complaint: American Medicine, Then and Now.

Jeffrey H Rudell ('57)

Dr. Rudell has published a book entitled Exercise Physiology for Swimmers and Divers.

William Safire ('47)

Pulitzer Prize winner William Safire's books include Fumblerules: A Lighthearted Guide to Grammar and Good Usage; On Language; Good Advice: More Than 2,000 Quotations to help You Live Your Life; Sleeper Spy; Let a Simile Be Your Umbrella; Leadership; Good Advice on Writing; Watching My Language: Adventures in the Word Trade; I Stand Corrected; Heroes of chivalry and romance; Take My Word for It; You Could Look It Up; Spread the Word; Whats the Good Word; Safire's Washington.

David Saperstein ('52)

David Saperstein is most famous for The Cocoon Trilogy, which was made into the Oscar-winning 1985 motion picture Cocoon.  He has also written several novels including A Christmas Gift, A Christmas Passage, Red Devil, and many others.  He has written for several media, including screenplays, librettos, film, television, and video. 

Helen Schulman ('79)

Ms. Schulman's novels include This Beautiful Life: A Novel (P.S.), A Day at the Beach, and Out of Time.

Constance Shames, M.D. (Jan. '51)

Dr. Shames has published a book entitled Death of a Scholar.

Stephen Shepard ('56)

Mr. Shepard has written a book entitled Deadlines and Disruptions.

Helen Silverman, PhD ('53) 

Helen Silverman co-edited a book, Love: Psychoanalytic Perspectives published by NYU Press. Dr. Silverman also has an article in the book.

April Smith ('67)

Ms. Smith's novels include White Shotgun, Judas Horse, Good Morning Killer, North of Montana and Be the One.

Dava Sobel ('64)

Ms. Sobel's books include Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love; Longitude: The Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time; A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos.

Click here for a New York Times review of A More Perfect Heaven.

Larry Stempel ('59)

Fordham Professor Larry Stempel has authored Showtime: A History of the Broadway Musical Theater.

Henry Michael Strage ('51)

Henry Michael Strage has published a book entitled Management Milestones.

Edward Taub ('56)

Dr. Edward A. Taub M.D. has written several books on the subject of Wellness Medicine including:  Stress Management in Today’s World: The Wellness Solution. Balance Your Body; Balance Your Life: 28 Day Permanent Weight Loss Plan;  Balance Your Body, Balance Your Life: Total Health Rejuvenation and others. 

William Taubman ('58)

Pulitzer Prize winning author, William Taubman, has published several books including Khrushchev: The Man and His Era Stalin's Amer Policy, Moscow Spring, The view from Lenin Hills: Soviet youth in ferment.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson ('76)

Dr. Tyson's books include Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier; Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries.

Gene Weingarten ('68)

Mr. Weingarten is a Pulitzer Prize winning writer and author of several books including, Old Dogs: Are the Best Dogs; The Fiddler in the Subway: The Story of the World-Class Violinist Who Played for Handouts; I'm with Stupid: One Man. One Woman. 10,000 Years of Misunderstanding Between the Sexes Cleared Right Up; The Hypochondriac's Guide to Life. And Death.

Gary Weiss ('71)

Gary Weiss has authored the book Ayn Rand Nation.

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