For this special book issue of DAM we have identified 34 published authors in the class of 1966. There are, undoubtedly, more.

Our author classmates are or have been doctors, lawyers, scientists, businessmen, bankers, investors, and civil servants as well as educators and journalists. Subjects covered in the hundreds of books classmates have written range from geology, ethics, computers, economics, history, art, and the brain to self-help, family medicine, biographies, travel, and skiing. There’s also plenty of fiction, essays, and poetry, plus translations into English of works originally in French, German, and Japanese.

Here are our class authors, in alphabetical order, with the name of one of their books: Tom Brady (History of the PET Bottle), Peter Cleaves (Bureaucratic Politics and Administration in Chile), Peter Dorsen (Men Over 60: Don’t Quit Now!), Bill Dowling (Oliver Wendell Holmes in Paris), Chuck Forester (I Throw Like a Girl), Don Glazer (Uninvited Guests), Dave Godine (Godine at Fifty), Doug Greenwood (Settling in in Hanover), John Hargraves (The Executor: A Comedy of Errors), Stephen Hayes (The Dance Man), Chuck Horn (Lessons by the Hour), Saleh Jabarin (My Journey), Angus King (A Senator’s Eye), Chris Langley (Lone Pine in the Movies), Jim Lenfesty (A Marriage Book), Nelson Lichtenstein (A Fabulous Failure: The Clinton Presidency and the Transformation of American Capitalism), Tom Lips (Most Valuable Player), Barry Machado (In Search of a Usable Past: The Marshall Plan and Postwar Reconstruction Today), Ken Meyercord (112 Ways to Alienate Most Everybody), Will Morgan (Monadnock Summer), Steve Nash (Picasso and the War Years), John Nevison (The Little Book of BASIC Style), Mead Over (Confronting AIDS), John Pappenheimer (Fast Hands), Peter Prichard (Killing Grace: A Vietnam War Mystery), William Rodarmor (Tamata and the Alliance), Bill Rose (How the Rock Connects Us), Allan Ryan (Yamashita’s Ghost), Ken Sharpe (Practical Wisdom: The Right Way to Do the Right Thing), Jeff Stein (Mediaevil), Howard Weiner (The Brain Under Siege), Jonathan Wiesel (Cross-Country Ski Vacations), Will Willkoff (Coping With a Picky Eater), and Bill Wilson (The Beginner’s Guide to Haiku).

For further information about each author and a more comprehensive review of their published works, including photos of many book covers, visit Dartmouth66.com. Gentlemen—thank you and keep writing!

—Larry Geiger, 93 Greenridge Ave., White Plains, NY 10605; (914) 860-4945; lgeiger@aol.com