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NOTABLE NEW BOOKS BY ALUMNI

Budd Schulberg '36, Academy Award-winning screenwriter, novelist and witness of five decades of fights, delivers a knockout of a sportswriting collection in Ringside A TreaSury of Boxing Reportage (Ivan R. Dee).

Andrew Pincus '51, author and music critic, releases his first novel about a son who must find his own path after the death of his failed businessman father in A LovingSon (Bookloft).

Robert Sullivan '75, editor of LIFE Books and former sportswriter for Sports Illustrated arid Time, collects his best golf essays in You 're Still Away: Golfing forFun, Golfing for All of Us (Maple Street Press).

Steve Lazarus '52, managing director of ARCH Venture Partners and associate dean of the University of Chicago Business School, describes the 20-year effort by ARCH to transfer ideas from university labs to the marketplace in Mind Into Matter (Gondolier).

Lynmar Brock '55, Tu'56, CEO of food services company Brock & Co., offers an historical tale for young adult readers about a young Quaker colonist deciding whether to fight in the American Revolution in MustThee Fight (BookSurge).

Edward Multer '65, professor of history and director of the urban studies program at the University of Pittsburgh, examines a formative half century of urban planning in Before Renaissance:Planning in Pittsburgh, 1889- 1943 (University of Pittsburgh Press).

Ted Baehr '69, an entertainment expert and chairman of the Christian Film & Television Commission, tells the story of a leader of the anti-slave trade movement during early 19th-century London in The Amazing Graceof Freedom: The Inspiring Faith of WilliamWilbetforce (New Leaf Press) and teams up with legendary musician Pat Boone to offer an understanding of cultural messages in light of the scripture in The Culture-WiseFamily: Upholding Christian Values in a MassMedia World (Regal),

Frank Drislane '71, M.D., an associate professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School, offers the neurological clinician a comprehensive review of the most serious and challenging nervous system disorders in Status Epileptics:A Clinical Perspective (Humana Press).

Carl Little '76, director of communications and marketing at the Maine Community Foundation and author of numerous art books, explores the sea, air and landscape of Maine in Ocean Drinker:New & SelectedPoems (Deerbrook Editions).

Steven Solomon '77, a licensed clinical psychologist and founding director of the Relationship Institute in La Jolla, California, offers a new way of understanding the causes and types of infidelity and how to rebuild a relationship after an affair in What ComesAfter Infidelity (New Harbinger Publications).

Scott Straus '92, a social scientist and former journalist in East Africa, examines the forces behind mass murder in The Orderof Genocide: Race, Power andWar in Rwanda (Cornell University Press).

Kim Marra '80, an associate theater professor at the University of lowa, spotlights three impresario-actress relationships that influenced 20th-century theater in StrangeDuets: Impresarios and Actresses in the American Theatre, 1865-1914 (University of lowa Press).

Doug White '81, a national leader in the philanthropic community and chair of the National Capital Gift Ethics Committee, demystifies what the public should expect from the charitable sector in Charity OnTrial (Barricade Books).

Jenna Dixon '81 (designer), Norah Lake '06 (author), Dan Lambert '90 (author), Kevin Peterson '84 (funder), Anne Margolis '01 (author) and Chuck Wooster '89 (author, editor) contribute to an anthology of essays by local writers exploring the nature of New Hampshire and Vermont in The OutsideStory (Northern Woodlands).

Ted Demopoulos '83, president of his own technology consulting firm, unravels the buzz about blogs and explains how to tap into their power in Bloggingfor Business (Kaplan Publishing). A companion book, WhatNo One Ever Tells You About Bloggingand Podcasting (Kaplan), includes interviews with 101 successful business bloggers.

Matthew Dickerson '85, an environmental studies professor at Middlebury College, examines the underlying environmental philosophy in Tolkien's major works in Ents, Elves and Eriador: The EnvironmentalVision of J.R.R. Tolkien (The University Press of Kentucky).

Bill Gifford '88, an award-winning writer and editor at Men's Journal, traces the adventures of Dartmouth's first outdoorsman in Ledyard: In Search of the First AmericanExplorer (Harcourt).

Heidi Julavits '90, author of The Effects ofLiving Backwards, a New York Times Notable Book of 2003 and founding editor of TheBeliever magazine, writes about a 17-year-old girl in West Salem, Massachusetts, who possibly faked her own abduction, and the reaction upon her return home in the novel The Uses of Enchantment (Random House).

Lance Lazar '86, an assistant history professor at Assumption College, illuminates the understanding of religious reform, popular devotion and changing attitudes toward charity in 16th- and early-17th-century Italy in Vineyard of the Lord:Jesuit Confraternities in Early Modern Italy (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005), which won the Howard Marraro Prize from the American Catholic Historical Association.

Michael Lowenthal '90, author of The SameEmbrace and Avoidance, digs up a little-remembered WWI-era government campaign to imprison women with venereal disease in the historic fiction novel CharityGirl (Houghton Mifflin).

Magdale Labbe Henke '92 reflects on her upbringing in Brooklyn as the child of two emmigrants from Haiti through stories, poems and recollections in The Shedding of the Girl:In and Out of the City (Xlibris).