Alumnae Authors
Chapin counts many published authors among its alum community. Listed below are the names of alum authors and the books they have recently published or that will be published within the year.
Alum Authors and Their Books
Cristina Alger ’98
Girls Like Us
G.P. Putnam's Sons, July 2019
The Banker's Wife
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2018
Alexandra Andrews ’02
Who is Maud Dixon?
Little, Brown and Company, March 2021
Amanda Brickell Bellows ’04
American Slavery and Russian Serfdom in the Post-Emancipation Imagination.
University of North Carolina Press, 2020
Sara Bliss ’91
Take the Leap: Change Your Career, Change Your Life
Simon & Schuster, 2018
Samantha Boardman ’90
Ready for Anything: How to Build Resilience and Cope with Daily Stress
Penguin, 2021
Marlen Suyapa Bodden ’79
Arrows of Fire
Roatan Hall Press LLC, 2019
Tonya Bolden ’76
Saving Savannah
Bloomsburg YA, Jan 2020
Dark Sky Rising: Reconstruction and the Dawn of Jim Crow
Scholastic Focus, Jan 2019
Pathfinders: The Journeys of 16 Extraordinary Black Souls
Harry N. Abrams, 2017
Heather Bryant ’95
My Trans Parent
Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2020
Tara Burton ’09
Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World
PublicAffairs, June 2020
Social Creature: A Novel
Doubleday, 2018
Seeta Changati ’85
Strange Footing: Poetic Form and Dance in the Late Middle Ages
The University of Chicago Press, 2018
Flora Collins ’12
Nanny Dearest
MIRA, November 2021
Coline Covington ’71
For Goodness Sake: Bravery, Patriotism and Identity
Phoenix Publishing House, 2020
Holly Curtis ’81
Large Fry Small Fry Medium Orange
2017
Jenny Fran Davis ’13
Everything Must Go: A Novel
Wednesday Books, 2017
Virginia Lynch Dean ’73
Chief Crazy Snake: The Untold Story of Roy Hoffman & Chitto Harjo
Indy Pub, 2021
Beth Dennison ’67
Body Up! A Co-Regulation Handbook
2019
Mary McClintock Dusenbury ’60
Electoral Rules and Democracy in Latin America
Oxford University Press, 2018
Rachel Felder ’85
Red Lipstick
Harper Collins Publishers, 2019
Melissa Free ’86
Beyond Gold and Diamonds: Genre, the Authorial Informant, and the British South African Novel
State University of New York Press, 2021 (Paperback to follow in July 2021)
Makenna Goodman ’03
The Shame
Milkweed Editions, 2020
Kate Greathead ’01
Laura & Emma
Simon & Schuster, 2018
Cynthia Lang ’55
Clifford's Ghost: An Art Mystery
Mill City Press, 2019
Camilla Wall Lee ’61
Life Stories: From Reno to the Azores
EBook Bakery, May 2019
Louise Earl Loomis ’46
The Cognitive Six: A Guide to Teaching Thinking
With Tom Smith
Think Well Center, LLC, 2017
Kahdeidra Monét Martin ’99
Classroom Talk for Social Change
Teachers College Press, 2020
Joanna Massey ’86
CULTURE SHOCK: Surviving Five Generations in One Workplace
TVGuestpert Publishing, May 2020
Communicating During a Crisis: Influencing Others When the Stakes Are High
JDMA Publishing, April 2020
Neylan McBaine ’95
Pioneering the Vote: The Untold Story of Suffragists in Utah and the West
Shadow Mountain, Aug 2020
Vanessa McGrady ’86
Rock Needs River: A Memoir About a Very Open Adoption
Little A, 2019
Booth Moore ’90
American Runway: 75 Years of Fashion and the Front Row
2018
Where Stylists Shop: The Fashion Insider's Ultimate Guide
Regan Arts, 2017
Sheila Nickerson ’60
Blackbird Flying, a memoir
Fuze Publishing, 2019
Hitchhiking the Highway of Tears
Moonpath Press, 2017
Galt Niederhoffer ’93
Poison
St. Martin's Press, 2017
Jenna Orkin ’71
How To Say "F--- Your Mother" in Chinese: A Teacher's Guide
2021
Ground Zero Wars: The Fight to Reveal the Lies of the EPA in the Wake of 9/11 and Clean Up Lower Manhattan
CreateSpace Independent Publishing, 2017
Annis Pratt ’54
The Battle for the Black Fen
Moon Willow Press, 2017
Caroline Schley ’01
The Weight of the Sky
May 2021
Lizbeth Shafer ’62
Wellsprings
Finishing Line Press, 2019
Alexandra Shapiro ’82
Presumed Guilty
New Degree Press, 2021
Alison Turner ’58
The Second Split Between
Catamaran Literary Reader, 2021
Anne Walker ’91
Rowdy Meadow: House - Land - Art
Vendome Press, 2021
Life at the Top: New York's Most Exceptional Apartment Buildings
With Kirk Henkels, Photographs by Michel Arnaud
Vendome Press, 2017
Patricia Cutler Warner ’39
Will You Love Me When I'm Fat?: A Mother and Daughter Story
Todd Pond Press, 2017
Ellen Warner ’65
The Second Half; Women Reveal Life After 50
Brandeis University Press
Catharine Pierce Wells ’64
Oliver Wendell Holmes: A Willing Servant to an Unknown God
Cambridge University Press, January 2020
Janine Wiedel ’65
Black Power Black Panthers 1969
Café Royal Books, 2017
Grace Wilentz ’03
Holding Distance
Green Bottle Press, 2019
Lauren Willig ’95
The Lost Summers of Newport
William Morrow, 2022
Band of Sisters
William Morrow, March 2021
The Summer Country
William Morrow, June 2020
Shelley Wiseman ’74
The Farm Cooking School: Techniques and Recipes That Celebrate The Seasons
With Ian Knauer, Photographs by Guy Ambrosino
Burgess Lea Press, 2017
Alexandra Wolfe ’98
Valley of the Gods: A Silicon Valley Story
Simon & Schuster, 2017
If you have any questions, please contact Irina MacGuire, Director of Alumnae Affairs, at 212.570.4916 or imacguire@chapin.edu.