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Manchester University Alumni Authors

 

Are you a Manchester alumni book author? Send your information to the Alumni Office for inclusion on this special web page. (For faculty publications, click here.)

Many of these books are available on Amazon.com as well as on the publishers' websites.

Paula Sheller ’55 Adams, Forest Grove, Ore.

  • this  little space – poems

           Amherst Writers & Artists Press

James Beard ’65, Salisbury, N.C.

  • Environmental Chemistry in Society
    CRC Press

Marv Bittinger ’63, Carmel, Ind.

  • Basic Mathematics, Basic College Mathematics, Introductory and Intermediate Algebra, and scores of other textbooks and teacher guides on mathematics
  • You Can Teach Hitting, about baseball, co-authored with Dusty Rhoades
  • The Faith Equation, One Mathematician's Journey in Christianity

George Boudreau ’87, Philadelphia, Pa.

  • Independence: A Guide to Historic Philadelphia

           Westholme Publishing

Donal Carbaugh ’77, Easthampton, Mass.

  • Cultures in Conversation

Norm Coots ’89, Indianapolis, Ind.

  • Stop Wasting Money, Your Common Sense Money Management Guide for Everyday Life, published with wife, Carol

Jeffrey Courtright '79, Bloomington, Ind.

  • Inspiring Cooperation and Celebrating Organizations: Genres, Message Design and Strategies in Public Relations, with Peter M. Smudde
  • Power and Public Relations, with Peter M. Smudde

Linda Crill '71, Reston, Va., with illustrator Kevin L. Miller '71

  • Blind Curves, One Woman’s Unusual Journey to Reinvent Herself and Answer: What Now?
    Linda's website

Christine Deavel '80x, Seattle, Wash.

  • Woodnote, poetry, many set in North Manchester and northern Indiana 

           Bear Star Press

Mary Alice Bagwell '52 Dillman, Delaware, Ohio

  • Gratitude: A Legacy of a Life, an autobiography

           Modern Memoirs Inc.

Loren Finnell ’64, Larchmont, N.Y.

Myrna Grove ’71, Bryan, Ohio

  • Alexander Mack: A Man Who Rippled the Waters, a children's book for the 300th anniversary of the Church of the Brethren
  • The Path to America, from Switzerland to Lancaster County

            Myrna Grove Books

Brian Hartz ’00, Bloomington, IN

  • Harley, C.I., crime fiction co-written with Tom Gratz
    FriesenPress

James Hollis ’62, Houstin, Texas

  • Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life: How to Finally, Really Grow Up
    Gotham Books

Robert C. Johansen ’62, Granger, Ind.

  • The National Interest and the Human Interest: An Analysis of U.S. Foreign Policy
  • Toward a Dependable Peace: A Proposal for an Appropriate Security System
  • Toward an Alternative Security System: Moving Beyond the Balance of Power in the Search for World Security

Ruthann Knechel ’64 Johansen, Granger, Ind.

  • The Narrative Secret of Flannery O'Conner: The Trickster as Interpreter
  • Listening in the Silence, Seeing in the Dark: Reconstructing Life after Brain Injury

Janis Clark '69 Johnston, Oak Park, Ill.

  • It Takes A Child to Raise a Parent: Stories of Evolving Child and Parent Development

Norman Jones ’58x, Crystal Lake, Ill.

  • Growing Up in Indiana: The Culture & Hoosier Hysteria Revisited

           AuthorHouse

Scott Kreiger ’88, Fort Wayne, Ind.

  • Four Sunny Saturdays, The Story of the Canterbury Lady Caviliers' 2008 State Championship

           AuthorHouse

Joe Krom ’67, Argos, Ind.

  • Heart of a Warrior: The True Saga of Sweet Breeze and William Wells
    Eel River Traders

Ralph G. McFadden ’55, Elgin, Ill.

Michael Morris ’71, Fort Wayne, Ind.

  • Along the Way
    CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Anne Ott ’78, Churubusco, Ind.

  • Windswept: A Love Story

Gladden Schrock ’58, South Bristol, Maine

  • Letters from Alf, nominated for Pulitzer Prize in fiction
  • Glutt, Tapps and Madam Popov, theatrical productions

         

Lori Caskey ’94 Sigety, Mishawaka, Ind.

  • In The Family of Trees, poetry

Craig Smith ’71, Elizabethtown, Pa.

  • Every Monday-Finding God on Tough Days, for church leaders

E. Timothy Smith '75, Fort Lauderdale, Fla.

  • Opposition Beyond the Water's Edge: Liberal Internationalists, Pacifists and Containment, 1945-1953
  • The United States, Italy and NATO, 1947-52

R. Jan Thompson ’59, Bridgewater, Va.

Roma Jo Thompson ’75, Mesa, Ariz.

  • Beyond Our Means, How the Brethren Service Center Dared To Embrace the World
    Brethren Press

Gary Tisor ’57x, Struthers, Ohio

Tom Wagner ’82, Whitehall, Mich.

  • Work and Hope: Further Thoughts on Living Faith, essays from Muskegon County Cooperating Churches newsletter
  • A Pilgrim’s Provender: Selected Ponderings on Life and Faith

           Brethren Press

Ruth Esther Walters ‘62 Vawter, Indianapolis, Ind.

Phil West ’60, Missoula, Mont.

  • Yenching University and Sino-Western Relations, 1916-1952, nominated for Pulitzer Prize in history
    Harvard University Press

Flora Williams,  Lafayette, Ind.

  • The Shepherd’s Guide through the Valley of Debt and Financial Change: A Comprehensive Manual for Financial Management, Counseling Techniques, and Spiritual Guidance
    AuthorHouse, Flora's website   
  • Hand in Hand with God: Witnessing on the Way
    PublishAmerica   
  • Renewal: A Collection of Flora’s Poetry

Jeanine Wine ’76, North Manchester, Ind.

  • Mrs. Tibbles and the Special Someone
  • Silly Tilly
    GoodBooks Publishing