Sidwell Authors
Below is a list of material authored by the talented Sidwell alumni, faculty, and staff. It is by no means a complete list. If you know of any other talented Sidwell alumni and friends, please email alumni@sidwell.edu with your updates. The list is sorted by author's last name.
| Author | Title |
|---|---|
| Daniel M. Abramson '81 | Building the Bank of England: Money, Architecture, Society, 1694-1942 Skyscraper Rivals: The AIG Building and the Architecture of Wall Street |
| Marc Abramson '87 | Ethnic Identity in Tang China |
| Elizabeth Alexander '80 | Antebellum Dream Book |
| Gigi Anders '75 | Jubana! : The Awkwardly True and Dazzling Adventures of a Jewish Cubana Goddess |
| Anne Applebaum '82 | Between East and West: Across the Borderlands of Europe Gulag: A History |
| Nicholas Arons '94 | Waiting for Rain |
| Andrew Aronson (faculty member; married to Cynthia Eyster '72) | Catullus and Horace Love and Betrayal: A Catullus Reader Selections from Caesar's De Bello Gallico |
| Robert Ashton '47 | This Old Man and the Sea: How my Retirement Turned into a Ten-Year Sail Around the World |
| Damali Ayo '90 | How to Rent a Negro |
| Author | Title |
| Amy Benesch '68 | Into the Dreamlands |
| George L. Bernstein '64 | Liberalism and Liberal Politics in Edwardian England |
| Margaret Cobey Black '40 | Hawaii Scandal |
| Ann Brashares '85 | Linus Torvalds: Software Rebel The Second Summer of the Sisterhood The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Steve Jobs: Think Different |
| Joel Brinkley '71 | The Circus Master's Mission Defining Vision: The Battle for the Future of Television Israel: The Historical Atlas: The Story of Israel from Ancient Times to the Modern Nation U.S. v. Microsoft: The Inside Story of the Landmark Case |
| Christopher Leslie Brown '86 | Moral Capital: Foundations of British Abolitionism (UCH Press, 2006) |
| Ralph Bryant (former Chair of Board of Trustees and former parent) | Controlling Money: The Federal Reserve and Its Critics Empirical Macroeconomics for Interdependent Economies Evaluating Policy Regimes: New Research in Empirical Macroeconomics External Deficits and the Dollar: The Pit and the Pendulum Financial Interdependence and Variability in Exchange Rates: A Staff Paper Global Macroeconomics: Policy Conflict and Cooperation International Coordination of National Stabilization Policies International Financial Intermediation Macroeconomic Policies in an Interdependent World Money and Monetary Policy in Interdependent Nations Notes on the Analysis of Capital Flows to Developing Nations and the Recycling Problem |
| Author | Title |
| Andrew Carroll '88 | 101 Great American Poems (introduction by Andrew Carroll) Golden Opportunities: A Volunteer Guide for Americans Over 50 In Our Own Words: Extraordinary Speeches of the American Century (edited by Andrew Carroll) Letters of a Nation: A Collection of Extraordinary American Letters Volunteer USA War Letters : Extraordinary Correspondence from American Wars |
| John Case (pseudonym for Carolyn and Jim Hougan, parents of Matthew Hougan '94) | The First Horseman The Genesis Code The Syndrome: A Thriller |
| Princess Setsuko Chichibu '28 (from Japan; deceased) | The Silver Drum: A Japanese Imperial Memoir |
| Jan Wolfle Christophersen '53 | A Journey to Hope |
| Helen Austern Colson '53 | Philanthropy at Independent Schools |
| Trevor C. Corson '87 | The Secret Life of Lobsters: How Fishermen and Scientists Are Unraveling the Mysteries of Our Favorite Crustacean |
| Author | Title |
| John Dickerson '87 | On Her Trail |
| John Dos Passos (attended SFS 1902-1903) | Adventures of a Young Man Afterglow and Other Undergraduate Writings (Archive of Literary Documents, I) The American Lawyer: As He Was - As He Is He Can Be The Best Times: An Informal Memoir The Bomb Brazil on the Move Century's Ebb: The Thirteenth Chronicle Chosen Country Commercial Trusts: The Growth and Rights of Aggregated Capital, an Argument Delivered Before the Industrial Commission at Washington DC District of Columbia Easter Island; Island of the Enigmas Facing the Chair: Story of the Americanization of Two Foreign Born Workmen (Civil Liberties in American History) First Encounter The Forty Second Parallel Grand Design The Ground We Stand On John Dos Passos (Twayne's United States Author Series) John Dos Passos: A Twentieth-Century Odyssey John Dos Passos' Correspondence with Arthur K. McComb or 'Learn to Sing the Carmagnole' Journeys Between Wars La Grosse Galette Manhattan Transfer Men Who Made the Nation Midcentury Mr. Wilson's War Number One One Man's Initiation: 1917, a Novel Orient Express The Portugal Story The Prospect Before Us The Shackles of Power: Three Jeffersonian Decades State of the Nation Streets of Night Theme is Freedom Thomas Jefferson: the Making of a President Three Soldiers Tour of Duty USA: The 42nd Parallel/1919/The Big Money The 42nd Parallel: Volume One of the USA Trilogy 1919: Volume Two of the USA Trilogy The Big Money: Volume Three of the USA Trilogy |
| Brett Dakin '94 | Another Quiet American: Stories of Life in Laos |
| Brandel France de Bravo '78 | Trees Make the Best Mobiles: Simple Ways to Raise Your Child in a Complex World (with Jessica Teich) |
| Willoughby Deming '74 | Re-thinking Religion: A Concise Introduction |
| Liza Donnelly '73 | Funny Ladies: The New Yorker's Greatest Women Cartoonists and their Cartoons |
| John Dickerson '87 | On Her Trail |
| Diana Lady Dougan '60 | Arab and Muslim Countries: Profiles in Translation |
| Author | Title |
| Peggy Eastman '60 | Godly Glimpses: Discoveries of the Love That Heals |
| Alice Echols '69 | Daring to Be Bad: Radical Feminism in America, 1967-75 Demise of Female Intimacy in the Nineteenth Century Scars of Sweet Paradise: The Life and Times of Janis Joplin |
| Margaret Edson '79 | Wit: A Play |
| Ann Clark Espuelas '84 | The Real Food Revival: Aisle by Aisle, Morsel by Morsel (Co-author with Sherri Brooks Vinton) |
| Author | Title |
| Sarah Bennett Farmer '75 | Martyred Village: Commemorating the 1944 Massacre at Oradour-sur-Glane |
| Stephanie Faul '67 | The Xenophobe's Guide to the Americans |
| Francois Furstenberg '90 | In the Name of the Father: Washington's Legacy, Slavery, and the Making of a Nation |
| Author | Title |
|---|---|
| Michael Gallant '99 | Getting the Most from Study Abroad (Students Helping Students) |
| John Rolfe Gardiner '55 | Going on Like This Great Dreams From Heaven In the Heart of the Whole World The Incubator Ballroom: A Novella and Four Stories The Magellan House Somewhere in France Unknown Soldiers |
| Bryan K. Garman (Upper School Principal; faculty member) | A Race of Singers: Whitman's Working Class Hero from Guthrie to Springsteen |
| James K. Glassman '65 | Dow 36,000: The New Strategy for Profiting From the Coming Rise in the Stock Market (Authors James K. Glassman and Kevin A. Hassett) The Secret Code of the Superior Investor: How to Be a Long-Term Winner in a Short-Term World |
| Catherine O'Neill Grace '68 | 1621: A New Look at Thanksgiving (with Margaret Bruchac) Amazing Mysteries of the World Best Friends, Worst Enemies: Understanding the Social Lives of Children (with Michael Thompson and Lawrence Cohen) Computers, Those Amazing Machines The Daffodil Farmer Dogs on Duty How & Why: A Kids' Book About the Body I Want to be an Astronaut I Want to be a Chef I Want to be a Dancer I Want to be an Engineer I Want to be an Environmentalist I Want to be a Firefighter I Want to be a Fashion Designer I Want to be a Veterinarian Natural Wonders of North America You Won't Believe Your Eyes Mayflower 1620: A New Look at a Pilgrim Voyage The White House: An Illustrated History The Daffodil Farmer (poems) |
| Lorraine Gray '69 | The Global Assembly Line (documentary film) With Babies and Banners (documentary film) |
| Grant Gustafson (former faculty member) | The Art of Guitar: Beginning Class Method |
| Frederick Albert Gutheim '27 (deceased) | Alvar Aalto The Federal City: Plans and Realities: The History The Potomac (preface by Gutheim) A Quest for Grandeur: Charles Moore and the Federal Triangle (with Sally Kress Tompkins and Jack E. Boucher) |
| Author | Title |
| Louise Hawes '61 | The Vanishing Point Waiting for Christopher Rosey in the Present Tense Crisis! (Mercy Hospital #1) The Best Medicine (Mercy Hospital #2) Don't Tell the Patient (Mercy Hospital #3) Doctor Cute (Mercy Hospital #4) Tales from the Cafeteria #1: Spaghetti and Spooks Tales from the Cafeteria #2: Things That Go Bump in Your Soup Nelson Malone Saves Flight 942 Nelson Malone Meets the Man from Mush-Nut Willem deKooning: The Life of an Artist Stretching the Truth (Sweet Valley Twins #13) Outcast (Sweet Valley Twins #9) New Girl (Sweet Valley Twins #6) Sneaking Out (Sweet Valley Twins #5) |
| J. Roderick Heller (former parent) | The Confederacy Is on Her Way Up the Spout: Letters to South Carolina, 1861-1864 |
| Sharon Smull Hinckley '63 | Watercolor Basics: Painting Flowers |
| Tony Horwitz '76 | Baghdad Without a Map: And Other Misadventures in Arabia Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War The Devil May Care: Fifty Intrepid Americans and Their Quest for the Unknown One for the Road: An Outback Adventure One for the Road: Hitchhiking Through the Australian Outback (Edited by Pat Mulcahy) James R. (Randy) Hostetler '81 Happily Ever After Tell Me Where is Fancy Bred (musical composition) |
| Caroline Hougan (parent of Matthew Hougan '94) | Blood Relative The Romeo Flag Shooting in the Dark |
| Jim Hougan (parent of Matthew Hougan '94) | Decadence: Racial Nostalgia, Narcissism, and Decline in the Seventies Kingdom Come Secret Agenda: Watergate, Deep Throat, and the CIA Spooks: The Haunting of America: The Private Use of Secret Agents |
| Author | Title |
| Xiao-bin Ji '85 | Politics and Conservatism in Northern Song China: The Career and Thought of Sima Guang |
| Greg Jones '87 | Beyond Da Vinci |
| Author | Title |
| Julie Silard Kantor '87 | I Said Yes! |
| John Katzenbach '68 | Day of Reckoning First Born: The Death of Arnold Zeleznik, Age Nine: Murder, Madness, and What Comes After Hart's War In the Heat of Summer Just Cause The Mean Season The Shadow Man State of Mind The Traveler |
| Alexander Levering Kern ‘89 (editor) | Becoming Fire: Spiritual Writing from Rising Generations |
| Philip S. Khoury '67 | French Imperialism in Syria, 1927-1936 (with Peter A. Shambrook) The Modern Middle East: A Reader (Ed. with Albert Hourani and Mary C. Wilson) Recovering Beirut: Urban Design and Post-War Reconstruction (Social, Economic, and Political Studies of the Middle East, Vol. 47) (Samir Khalaf, Editor) Syria and the French Mandate: The Politics of Arab Nationalism 1920-1945 (Princeton Studies on the Near East) Tribes and State Formation in the Middle East (Also edited by Joseph Kostiner.) Urban Notables and Arab Nationalism: The Politics of Damascus 1860-1920 |
| Wendy Kline '87 | Building a Better Race: Gender, Sexuality, and Eugenics from the Turn of the Century to the Baby BoomBuilding a Better Race: Gender, Sexuality, and Eugenics from the Turn of the Century to the Baby Boom |
| Christopher Allan Knowles '67 | Murder in Martha's Vineyard Lodge: A Masonic Allegory Murder in Sugarbush Lodge: A Study in Brotherhood A Matter of Perception |
| Author | Title |
| Richard A Lanham '53 | The Electronic Word: Democracy, Technology, and the Arts A Handlist of Rhetorical Terms Revising Business Prose Revising Prose To Tell a Story: Narrative Theory and Practice (Earl Miner, et al.) |
| Dorie McCullough Lawson '86 | Along Comes A Stranger |
| Edward Lazarus '77 | Black Hills, White Justice: The Sioux Nation vs. The United States: 1775 to the Present Closed Chambers: The Rise, Fall, and Future of the Modern Supreme Court |
| Charles Augustus Lindbergh (attended 1913-1915) | Autobiography of Values The Spirit of St. Louis The Wartime Journals of Charles A. Lindbergh We |
| Richard Lodish (Lower School Principal) | A Child in the Principal's Office: Laughing and Learning in the Schoolhouse |
| Author | Title |
|---|---|
| William R. MacKaye '51 and Mary Anne MacKaye '51 (deceased) | Mr. Sidwell's School: A Centennial History 1883-1983 |
| Alex MacLean '65 (with Julie Campoli and Elizabeth Humstone) | Above and Beyond: Visualizing Change in Small Towns and Rural Areas |
| Campbell McGrath '80 | American Noise Aristophanes, 2: Wasps, Lysistrata, Frogs, the Sexual Congress (Penn Greek Drama Series) (translation by McGrath) Capitalism Road Atlas: Prose and Other Poems Spring Comes to Chicago |
| Eliza Lowen McGrew '90 | Two Covenants: Representations of Southern Jewishness |
| Ellen M. McLaughlin '76 | The Narrow Bed Tongue of a Bird |
| Nancy Winston Milford (attended SFS 1947-1949; would have graduated in 1956) | Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay The Selected Poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay Zelda: A Biography Zelda Fitzgerald: A Biography |
| Author | Title |
| Richard Nixon (father of Julie Nixon Eisenhower '66, left '61, and Patricia Cox '64) | 1999: Victory Without War China Calls: Paving the Way for Nixon's Historic Journey to China I Want to Make One Thing Perfectly Clear; The Illuminations of Richard M. Nixon Leaders Nixon: The First Year of His Presidency Nixon: The Second Year of His Presidency Nixon: The Fourth Year of His Presidency No More Vietnams The Poetry of Richard Milhous Nixon Real Peace The Real War Richard M. Nixon: 37th President of the United States (Presidents of the United States) RN: The Memoirs of Richard Nixon Seize the Moment: America's Challenge in a One Superpower World The Wit and Wisdom of Winston Churchill: A Treasury of More Than 1,000 Quotations and Anecdotes (James C. Humes, Richard M. Nixon (Foreword)) |
| Bill Nye '73 | Bill Nye, The Science Guy's Big Blast of Science |
| Author | Title |
| Karen Olsson '90 | Waterloo |
| K. K. Ottesen '89 | Great Americans |
| George Ovitt (former faculty for ten years) | The Restoration of Perfection: Labor and Technology in Medieval Culture |
| Author | Title |
| Ben "Todd" Parnell III '65 | Mom at War |
| Carol F. Peck '91 | From Deep Within: Poetry Workshops in Nursing Homes |
| Sara Elise Phang '89 | The Marriage of Roman Soldiers (13 B.C.-A.D. 235): Law and Family in the Imperial Army |
| Dan Pinck '42 | Journey to Peking: A Secret Agent in Wartime China |
| Gautam Prakash '87 | The Insider's Guide to Management Consulting: Opportunities for Undergraduates |
| Author | Title |
| Dan I. Rather (father of Dawn Rather '76 and Daniel M Rather '78) | The Camera Never Blinks Twice: The Further Adventures of a Television Journalist Deadlines and Datelines |
| Nancy Reagan (attended SFS 1925-28) | How Should the War on Drugs be Waged (Opposing Viewpoints) I Love You, Ronnie My Turn: The Memoirs of Nancy Reagan Nancy Ronald Reagan: The Great Communicator (Introduction by Nancy Reagan) A Shining City: The Legacy of Ronald Reagan (Ronald Reagan, et al.) To Love a Child |
| Antonio Reyes-Guerra '39 | El Gringo |
| Carol Barbier Rolnick '69 (left in '66) | Wish You Were Here: A Guide to Baltimore for Natives and Newcomers |
| Dax-Devlin Ross '93 | Beat of a Different Drum: The Untold Stories of African Americans Forging Their Own Paths in Work and Life (2006) |
| John F. Ross '77 | Living Dangerously: Navigating the Risks of Everyday Life The Polar Bear Strategy: Reflections on Risk in Modern Life |
| Jay Roudebush (faculty member) | Mary Cassatt |
| Joanna Stratton Roze '72 | Pioneer Women, Voices from the Kansas Frontier |
| Author | Title |
|---|---|
| Cheryl J. Sanders '71 | Cheryl J. Sanders '71 Living the Intersection: Womanism and Afrocentrism in Theology Ministry at the Margins Saints in Exile |
| Susan Richards Shreve '57 | Ann Dunn Quits School Warm Springs: Traces of a Childhood at FDR’s Polio Haven (forthcoming) |
| Robert Lawrence Smith (former Head of School, 1965-1978) | A Quaker Book of Wisdom: Life Lessons in Simplicity, Service, and Common Sense |
| Lorin Stein ’91 (translator) | The Mystery Guest by Gregroire Boullier |
| Alison Clare Steingold '98 | Small Bites, Big Nights |
| Lauren Stevenson '95 | Third Space: When Learning Matters (Lauren Stevenson and Richard Deasy, 2005) |
| Andrew Szanton '81 | The Recollections of Eugene P. Wigner Have No Fear: the Charles Evers Story |
| Author | Title |
| Alden Todd '35 | Minding the Money: A Practical Guide for Volunteer Treasurers |
| Baratunde R. Thurston '95 | Better Than Crying: Poking Fun at Politics, the Press, & Pop Culture |
| Adam Trachtenberg '93 | PHP Cookbook Upgrading to PHP 5 |
| Barbara Taeusch Tufty '41 | 1001 Questions About Storms 1001 Questions Answered About Natural Land Disasters Cells: Units of Life Finding Wildflowers in the Washington-Baltimore Area |
| Author | Title |
| Gore Vidal '43 (left in 1936) | 1876: A Novel America First!: Its History, Culture, and Politics The American Presidency At Home: Essays, 1982-1988 The Best Man The Best of the Nation: Selections from the Independent Magazine of Politics and Culture (Victor Navasky, ed., et al) Burr The City and the Pillar Collected Essays, 1952-1972 Collected Stories, 1939-1976 (Introduction by Vidal) Confessions of an Art Addict: A Memoir (Peggy Guggenheim, et al.) Creation Dangerous Voyage Dark Green, Bright Red (Verde Oscuro, Rojo Vivo) Decline and Fall of the American Empire Deadly Sins Death Before Bedtime Death in the Fifth Position Death Likes It Hot Dreaming War: Blood for Oil and the Cheney-Bush Junta Duluth Empire The Essential Gore Vidal: A Gore Vidal Reader An Evening with Richard Nixon Following the Equator and Anti-Imperialist Essays; A Journey Around the World and Anti-Imperialist Essays, 1897, 1901, 1905 (Introduction by Gore Vidal) The Golden Age The Golden Bowl (Introduction by Vidal) Gore Vidal, 1876 Gore Vidal Sexually Speaking: Collected Sex Writings Great American Families Hollywood: A Novel of America in the 1920s Homage to Daniel Shays; Collected Essays, 1952-1972 Inventing a Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson The Invention of Heterosexuality The Judgement of Paris Julian Kalki Lincoln Live from Golgotha: The Gospel According to Gore Vidal Matters of Fact and of Fiction: Essays 1973-1976 Messiah Money and Politics: Financing Our Elections Democratically (David Donnelly, et al.) Myra Breckinridge and Myron Myron: A Novel The Norton Book of American Autobiography (Preface by Gore Vidal) Of Human Bondage (W. Somerset Maugham, et al.) Palimpsest: A Memoir Reflections Upon a Sinking Ship Romulus Screening History Search for the King Second American Revolution and Other Essays Selected Speeches and Writings (The Library of America) (Introduction by Gore Vidal) The Smithsonian Institution Tarzan of the Apes (Introduction by Gore Vidal) A Thirsty Evil: Seven Short Stories Three by Box: The Complete Mysteries of Edgar Box Two Sisters Una Memoria United States: Essays: 1952-1992 Vidal in Venice Views from a Window: Conversations with Gore Vidal (Bob Stanton and Gore Vidal) Visit to a Small Planet and Other Television Plays Washington DC: A Novel Weekend Where Joy Resides: A Christopher Isherwood Reader (Christopher Isherwood, et al.) Williwaw |
| Tran Vinh '90 | The Harvard Guide to Shopping (Koolhaas, Editor; Chuihua Judy Chung, Editor; Judy Chung, Jeffrey Inaba, et al.) |
| Author | Title |
| Mark Wilson '88 | The Business of Civil War: Military Mobilization and the State, 1861-1865 |
| Kristen Walton '88 | Catholic Queen, Protestant Patriarchy: Mary, Queen of Scots and the Politics of Gender and Religion |
| Author | Title |
| Bonnie Yochelson '70 | Berenice Abbott: Changing New York The Committed Eye: Alexander Alland's Photography New York to Hollywood: The Photography of Karl Struss (Barbara McCandless, et al.) Pictorialism into Modernism: The Clarence H. White School of Photography (Bonnie Yochelson, ed.) |
| Andrew Yarrow '75 | Forgive Us Our Debts |
| Lisa Yockelson '72 | Baking for Gift-Giving Brownies and Blondies Cobblers, Crisps, and Deep-Dish Pies A Country Baking Treasury: Pies, Cakes, Cookies Country Cakes: A Homestyle Treasury Country Cookies: An Old-Fashioned Collection County Pies The Efficient Epicure Fruit Desserts: Delectable Seasonal Sweets Glorious Gifts from Your Kitchen Layer Cakes and Sheet Cakes |