Alumni Authors Bookshelf

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Dr. Ted Baehr ’69

This engaging book takes readers on a captivating journey, as told through candid interviews and Dr. Ted Baehr’s personal recollections of his late father, Ted Baehr ’29, who had the stage name Robert Allen, a once-celebrated figure in Hollywood.

Athanase Kadita Tshibaka ’70, TU’71

Orphaned at three in the Congo, A.K. Tshibaka rose from poverty to Dartmouth MBA and Citigroup leadership. This sweeping memoir chronicles eighty years through coups, prison, and unwavering faith—proof that God still turns ashes into beauty.

Ford von Reyn ’67, MED’69, ’17 HON

Frank Cadwallader lies in a hospital bed recovering from surgery, haunted not by his illness but by a memory of a woman. Love from Afar: Finland is a deeply emotional story of love, longing, and a man’s enduring fascination with Finland and its people. 

Aviva Sapers ’90

For too many Americans, taking command of financial wellness and preparing for eventual retirement is a process that is put off for “someday.” In this call-to-action book, knowing that “Someday is not a day of the week,” we help you increase your financial literacy to help build the financial future you want.

Dr. Marcus R. Pyle, ADV’18

Deconstructed Divas reclaims opera’s femme fatale—Carmen, Salome, Lulu—not as victim but as force. Pyle shows how this “dangerous” trope fractured musical form, birthed modernism, and became an avatar of resistance for Black opera divas.

Scott D. Anthony ’96

A kaleidoscopic look at how eleven disruptive innovations—including the iPhone, transistor, disposable diapers, and Julia Child’s The Art of French Cooking—reshaped industries and societies, propelling humanity toward new frontiers.

Paul Miller, TU’98

The job market can be brutal for new grads. What started as notes for my college-age sons turned into the guide many of us could have used when we were starting out. Written by a Tuckie with 35 years in tech and consulting. Available on Amazon.

Mal Wrenn Corbin ’96

From a childhood shaped by poverty, violence, and loss to becoming a first-generation Dartmouth graduate, Raising Wrenns is a poignant memoir about resilience, belonging, and finding the courage to rewrite the story you believe about yourself.

Suzanne Leonard ’96

A Feminist Guide to Marriage is part crash course in feminism, part social guide, part memoir, and part manifesto. With chapters on dating, weddings, money, sex, and children, it will teach you how to use feminist ideals to live, think, act, and love.

Dr. Thomas Fisher ’96

The Emergency: A Year of Healing and Heartbreak in a Chicago ER by Thomas Fisher is the riveting, pulse-pounding story of a year in the life of an emergency room. Fisher offers a fresh vision of health care as a foundation for humanity and justice.

Michelle Villalobos ’96

A whimsical, rhyming adventure in the spirit of Dartmouth alum Dr. Seuss, But I Want To Fly! is a beautifully illustrated hardcover that inspires dreamers of all ages, making it the perfect gift for any milestone celebration.

Emily Katz Anhalt ’80

Herodotus offers nonpartisan strategies for countering poisonous ideologies and political violence. Empowering resistance to persuasive falsehoods, he fosters our willingness and ability to assemble facts and make humane moral judgments.

Hannah Fries ’04

In this beautifully illustrated collection of short essays and reflections, poet Hannah Fries employs the vocabulary of trees to provide insight into the intricate workings of the forest—and the human mind. 

Shelley Nadel ’85 CFP®, CLTC®, LUTCF

Financial confidence isn’t reserved for people who speak Wall Street. Shelley Nadel pairs the tools of cooking with the tools of wealth—so taking charge of your money feels less like an exam and more like Sunday brunch.

Steve Rand, ADV’18

This deeply moving memoir captures the beauty and heartbreak of growing up in the shadow of illness. Told through the eyes of a son, a poignant story of family, resilience, and the enduring bond between a mother and her children unfolds. 

Fredric Price ’67

A modern retelling of the Jacob and Esau story from Genesis: returning to the gritty working-class streets of his childhood in 1955, Army vet Jay deVenezia discovers his father and brother are involved in a scheme to bribe NYC officials to build an expressway that will destroy the heart of the Bronx.

Emily Smith Arons ’85

When eleven-year-old Jimmy Aster’s father vanishes on an environmental mission, he journeys across planet Miro with his loyal otter, Otto, healer Tala, inventor Derek, and their animal companions. Together, they uncover buried secrets, face mounting threats, and race to protect their world. An award-winning sci-fi eco-adventure for readers ages 9–12.

Giano Cromley ’95

A charming and comic debut novel about a quirky ensemble embarking on an epic quest to find Bigfoot. Part spooky adventure story, part wry and heartwarming tale of friendship, found family, the power of belief, and our sacred bond to nature. Think: The Blair Witch Project, if it had been written by John Irving.

Robert Garnett ’69

With the 1925 publication of The Great Gatsby, 28-year-old F. Scott Fitzgerald seemed destined for a brilliant literary career. At his death 15 years later, he was a hack screenwriter in Hollywood. What went wrong? Taking Things Hard tracks the ordeal of a great talent battling both misfortune and himself.

John Hanley ’71

Complexity driven by social/technical, economic/financial, and political interactions increasing at a hyperbolic rate requires adapting problem-solving paradigms and techniques. Operational gaming deals with complexity better than any alternatives.

Michael J. Hession MED’80

Nearly dying from a critical medical illness was something I had never considered. During my recovery I learned how unprepared our healthcare system is in caring for survivors. I share the strategies that I used in my recovery in what I hope will be a useful road map for patients and family members. 

Michelle Duster ’85

Born enslaved, Ida B. Wells went on to become a pioneering journalist, anti-lynching crusader, and suffragist. Michelle Duster tells the story of her often overlooked and underestimated great-grandmother through a contemporary lens, connecting her work to people and movements which continue today.

Aimee Loiselle ’92

Peter C. Rollins Book Prize winner. Hollywood took the biography of Crystal Lee Sutton, a Southern textile worker, and transformed it into the movie, Norma Rae. This fascinating book reveals how the film and its pop icon erased the complicated labor history.

John H. Wasson ’67

An award-winning historical novel about an unlikely partnership between a neuroscientist and a combat veteran—and why, after 70 years, the science and spirit of psilocybin are back. Available in book, audiobook and podcast.

Jeff Stern, TU’00

Jeff’s deeply personal exploration of creativity, presence, and discovery across all seven continents. Part visual memoir, part creative manifesto, part sensory field guide, the book invites readers to slow down, awaken their senses, and experience the world around them with greater awareness, intention, and curiosity.

William Kinnard ’82

Dr. Kinnard recreates the world of the American tuberculosis sanatorium with historical accuracy and emotional depth. I Will Lie Down Lean combines vivid storytelling, memorable characters, authentic medical history, and a compelling mystery with a thought-provoking solution.

Ben Szuhaj ’19

Wayfinding, a modern business fable about a CEO given a ninety-day ultimatum to develop an AI strategy or be fired, brings to life the urgent challenges executives face as artificial intelligence rewrites the rules of competition.

Gray Christie ’20

This spring I printed, sewed, glued, case-bound, and hand-painted fifty copies of my first book, The Poetics of Information. The physical product, along with its content, meditates on simple facts of our age: mass communication is inherently distorted, and feeling offers us a way through it.

John C. Moffitt ’55

John Moffitt, a behind-the-scenes legend of comedy, worked with everyone you might want to know more about and he can prove it.  If you like showbiz memoirs, this is a great collection of many entertaining stories. You won’t see these anywhere else.

Kimberley Tait ’01

Four Class of 2001 graduates are reeling from their first heartbreaks as they enter the world on the eve of September 11th. When the Twin Towers fall, the tragedy intertwines their lives and futures in supernatural ways, linked by an undelivered love letter.

Don Dixon ’75

CEASED? uses over 1,000 verses and analysis to show 1) 9 Gifts are valid today 2) how Holy Spirit can be with, in and upon us and 3) issues in key Catholic teachings.

Fred Groos ’80

A tale of struggle, courage, and finding one’s family where least expected, Sandy The Wonder Dog and the Spanish version, Sandy la Perra Maravillosa, is a serious adventure for children ages 6-11. Find at Bookshop.org.

Teresa Boucher ’85

After the bombing of Guernica, the Basque Government in exile sent Manu de la Sota to Idaho to seek support from Basque Americans there. Trip to Idaho 1938 is Boucher’s translation of his diary, an entertaining and informative snapshot of early 20th-century western U.S. on the cusp of WWII.

Charles A. Hobbie ’67

In describing the early years of the ROK’s transformation from a war-torn country under a military dictatorship to a world-class economic power and democracy, Hobbie’s account earned a congressional commendation at the Library of Congress in 2011.

Daniel Zehner ’66

“The poems in On the Outskirts court nostalgia but never give in to sentimentality as the speaker moves from estrangement to reconciliation to contentment: Zehner is an alchemist of words, showing us how golden art can be spun out of leaden experience.”

— R.G. Evans, author of Imagine Sisyphus Happy

Vladimir Svesko ’69

The novel takes our American reality twenty years into the future. It follows a couple living in NYC—the wife an elementary school teacher who becomes pregnant and the husband an ER doctor—as they navigate the challenges of living in an environment radically transformed by the end result of current American cultural and political forces.