Luis Zalamea ’42, after a 70-year career as a bilingual reporter, novelist and poet, offers his long-awaited memoir, in Spanish, Memories of Dilettante (Taller de Edicion).

Scott Lasser ’84 tells the story of a woman who goes in search of her brother’s lost child after the brother disappears on 9/11 in his third novel, The Year That Follows (Knopf).

Gregory Michael Dorr ’90, a visiting assistant professor in law, jurisprudence and social thought at Amherst College, blends social, legal, medical and cultural history in his examination of eugenic theory in Segregation’s Science: Eugenics & Society in Virginia (University of Virginia Press).

Brad Parks ’96 draws on his experiences as a staff writer at The Washington Post and the Newark, New Jersey, Star-Ledger to create investigative reporter Carter Ross in his debut novel, Faces of the Gone: A Carter Ross Mystery (St. Martin’s Press).

Photographer Eli Burakian ’00 (formerly Burak), with contributions from his wife, Julia Burakian ’01 (formerly Martiesian), combines images, essays and anecdotes in his gorgeous tribute, Moosilauke: Portrait of a Mountain (Fresh Tracks).

Tom Campbell ’65, a partner in the Chicago law office of Baker & McKenzie, focuses on the role Illinois and its abolitionists played in the fight against slavery in Fighting Slavery in Chicago (Ampersand).

Janet Mitchell ’86 has won the Starcherone Prize for Innovative Fiction with The Creepy Girl and Other Stories (Starcherone Books), her debut collection of 15 stories about families and childhood, small towns and prophets, boys and girls, life and death.

Eve Kushner ’90, a student of Japanese, offers a guide to the history, construction and cultural contexts of written Japanese characters in Crazy for Kanji: A Student’s Guide to the Wonderful World of Japanese Characters (Stone Bridge Press).