SOMERVILLE AUTHORS

Many authors have made their home in Somerville. This is our unofficial bibliography of published writers who live (or have lived) in Somerville. There's sure to be something here to fill out your summer reading list!

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Juan M. Alonso. Killing the Mandarin (New Amsterdam, Hardcover or Paperback, 1995); The Passion of Robert Bronson.

Katherine Auspitz. The Radical Bourgeoisie: the Ligue de l'Enseignement and the Origins of the Third Republic, 1866-1885 (Cambridge UP, 1982).

David Barber. The Spirit Level (Northwestern UP, Hardcover, 1995).

E Sophie Belfort. The Lace Curtain Murders (Atheneum, 1986); The Marvell College Murders (D.I. Fine, 1991); Eyewitness to Murder (D.I. Fine, 1992).

Suzanne E Berger. These Rooms. (Penmaen Press, Paperback, 1980); Legacies (Alice James Books, Hardcover or Paperback, 1984); Horizontal Woman : The Story of a Body in Exile (Houghton Mifflin Co, 1996).

Barbara Blatner. The Pope in Space (Intertext, 1986).

Ben Brooks. The Icebox (Amelia Press, Paperback, 1987).

Steven Ford Brown. Astonishing World: the Selected Poems of Angel Gonzalez, 1956-1986 (Milkweed Editions, Paperback, 1993).
Invited Guest: An Anthology of Twentieth-Century Southern Poetry (University Press of Virginia, Hardcover or Paperback, 2001).
Edible Amazonia: Twenty Recipes from God's Amazonian Recipe Book, by Nicomenedes Suarez Arazuz, translated from the Spanish by Steven Ford Brown (Smith College Center for Amazonian Studies, paper, 2001).

Ed Cates. Remember Your Dreams (Olympic Music Publications, 1981).

Naomi Feigelson Chase. A Child is Being Beaten: Violence Against Children, an American Tragedy (Rinehart and Winston, 1975); Listening for Water (Archival Press, Paperback, 1980); Waiting for the Messiah in Somerville, Mass. (Garden Street Press, Paperback, 1993); The Judges Daughter (Garden Street Press, Paperback, 1995).

Dick Cluster. They Should Have Served That Cup of Coffee (South End Press, Hardcover or Paperback, 1979); Repulse Monkey (Dutton, 1989); Return to Sender (Dutton, 1987); Right to Housing: A Blueprint for Housing the Nation (Inst for Policy Studies, Paperback, 1989); Obligations of the Bone (St Martin's Press, 1992); Cubana : Contemporary Fiction by Cuban Women (Beacon Press, Hardcover or Paperback, 1998); The Cuban Mile (Latin Amer. Literary Review Press, Paperback, 1998); In the Cold of the Malecon and Other Stories (City Lights Books, Paperback, 2000).

Leah Hager Cohen. G Train Go Sorry: Inside a Deaf World (Houghton Mifflin, Revised Edition, 2000, 1995); lass, Paper, Beans: Revelations on the Nature and Value of Ordinary Things (Doubleday and Co., Hardcover or Paperback, 1997);Heat Lightning (Avon Books, Hardcover or Paperback, 1997).

Steven Cramer. The Eye That Desires to Look Upward (Galileo Pr Ltd, Hardcover, 1987); The World Book (Copper Beech Press, Paperback, 1992). Dialogue for the Left and the Right Hand : Poems (Brookline Books, Paperback, 1997).

Elaine Ford. Monkey Bay (Dell, 1984); The Playhouse (McGraw-Hill, 1980); Missed Connections (Random House, 1983); Ivory Bright (Viking, 1986); Life Designs (Zoland Books, Hardcover, 1997).

Stephen R Fox. The Guardian of Boston: William Monroe Trotter (Atheneum, 1970); John Muir and His Legacy: The American Conservation Movement (Little Brown, Paperback, 1981); The Mirror Makers: a History of American Advertising and Its Creators (Morrow, 1984); Blood and Power: Organized Crime in Twentieth Century America (Morrow, 1989); The Unknown Internment: an Oral History of the Relocation of Italian Americans During World War II (Twayne Publishers, 1990); Big Leagues: Professional Baseball, Football, and Basketball in National Memory (Bison Bks Corp, Paperback, 1998).

Michael Franco. The Journals of the Man Who Kept Bees (Small Press Distribution, Paperback, 1996); How to Live as a Single Natural Being: The Dogmatic Nature of Experience (Zoland Books, Paperback, 1998).

Elizabeth Graver. Have You Seen Me? (Echo Press, 1993); Unraveling (Hyperion, Hardcover or Paperback, 1997); The Honey Thief: A Novel (Hyperion Press, Hardcover, Paperback or Large Print, 1999).

Jean Hardisty. Mobilizing Resentment: Conservative resurgence from the John Birch Society to the Promise Keepers (Beacon Press, Hardcover or Paperback, 1999).

Paul Kafka-Gibbons. Love Enter (Houghton Mifflin Company, Paperback, 1993).

Pagan Kennedy. Platforms (St. Martin's Press, 1994); Stripping : And Other Stories (Serpents Tail, Paperback, 1994); Zine: How I Spent Six Years Of My Life In The Underground & Finally Found Myself, I Think (St. Martin's Press, 1995); Spinsters (Serpent's Tail, Paperback, 1995); Pagan Kennedy's Living: A Handbook for Maturing Hipsters (St. Martin's Press, Paperback, 1997); The Exes (Simon and Schuster, 1998).

Ellen Kushner. Basilisk, ed. (1980); Outlaws of Sherwood Forest, Illustrated by Judith Mitchell. (Bantam Books, 1985); Mystery of the Secret Room, Illustrated by Judith Mitchell. (Bantam Books, 1986); Swordspoint: a Melodrama of Manners (Tor Books, Paperback, 1987); Knights of the Round Table, Illustrated by Judith Mitchell. (Bantam Books, 1988); Thomas the Rhymer: a Romance (Tor Books, Paperback, 1991); St. Nicholas and the Valley Beyond the World's Edge (Penguin Studio, Hardcover, 1994); The Horns of Elfland, ed. (New American Library, Paperback, 1997).

Estelle Leontief. Genia and Wassily: A Russian American Memoir (Zepher Press, 1987). Sellie and Dee : A Friendship (Chicory Blue Press, Paperback, 1993).

Denise Levertov. Pig Dreams: Scenes from the Life of Sylvia (Countryman Press, 1981); Candles in Babylon (New Directions, Paperback, 1982); Breathing the Water (New Directions, Paperback, Paperback, 1987); A Door in the Hive (New Directions, Paperback, 1989); Evening Train (New Directions, Paperback, 1992); This Great Unknowing : Last Poems (New Directions, Hardcover or Paperback, 1999).

Robin Lippincott. The Real, True Angel (Fleur-de-lis Press, Paperback, 1996); Mr. Dalloway (Sarabande Books, Hardcover or Paperback, 1999).

Dick Lourie. Anima (Hanging Loose Press, 1977); Ghost Radio (Hanging Loose Press, Hardcover or Paperback, 1998).

Stephen McCauley. The Object of My Affection (Simon & Schuster, Paperback, 1987); The Easy Way Out (Simon & Schuster, Paperback, 1992); The Man of the House (Simon & Schuster, Paperback, 1996).

Scott McCloud. Understanding Comics; the Invisible Arts (Kitchen Sink Press, Hardcover or Paperback, 1993); Zot! (Kitchen Sink Press, Paperback, 1998); "Superman Adventures of the Man of Steel: Adventures of the Man of Steel" (DC Comics, 1998); Reinventing Comics (Harperperennial Comics, Paperback, 2000).

Elizabeth McCracken. Here's Your Hat What's Your Hurry (Turtle Bay/Random House, 1993); The Giant's House (Dial Books, Hardcover or Paperback, 1996).

Ifeanyi Menkiti. Affirmation (Third World, 1971); The Jubiliation of Falling Bodies (Pomegrante, 1978).

Neil Miller. In Search of Gay America: Women and Men in a Time of Change (Harper & Row, 1989); Out in the World: Gay and Lesbian Life From Buenos Aires to Bankok (Random House, 1992); Out of the Past: Gay and Lesbian History from 1869 to the Present (Vintage Books, 1995); Gay Life (David McKay Co, 1999).

Gary Miranda. The Seed That Dies: 12 Elegies (1973); Grace Period (1983); Listeners at the Breathing Place (1979); Grace Period (1983).

William Patrick. Roxa: Voice of the Culver Family (Abbatoir Editions, Paperback, 1989); These Upraised Hands (BOA Editions, Hardcover or Paperback, 1995); We Didn't Come Here for This (BOA Editions, Paperback, 1999).

Mark Pawlak. Grace Period (1983); All The News (Hanging Loose Press, Paperback, 1987); New & Selected Poems (Hanging Loose Press, 1992).

Sydelle Pearl. Elijah's Tears, Stories for the Jewish Holiday (Henry Holt and Co., Hardcover, 1996).

Patricia Powell. A Small Gathering of Bones (Heinemann Educational, 1993); Me Dying Trial (Heinemann Educational, Paperback, 1993); Pagoda: A Novel (Knopf, Hardcover or Paperback, 1998).

Liam Rector. The Sorrow of Architecture (Dragon Gate, 1984); The Day I was Older (Story Line, Hardcover or Paperback, 1989); American Prodigal (Story Line Press, Paperback, 1994).

Marilyn Root. Women at the Wheel: 42 Stories of Freedom, Fanbelts and the Lure of the Open Road (Sourcebooks, Inc., Paperback, 1999)

Catherine Sasanov. Traditions of Bread and Violence (Four Way Books, Paperback, 1996).

Lloyd Schwartz. These People (Wesleyan University Press, 1981); Elizabeth Bishop and Her Art (University of Michigan Press, 1983); Goodnight, Gracie (University of Chicago, Hardcover or Paperback, 1992); Cairo Traffic (Univ. of Chicago Press, Hardcover or Paperback, 2000).

Delia Sherman. Through a Brazen Mirror (Ace, Paperback, 1989); The Porcelain Dove (Dutton, 1993).

Lauren Slater. Welcome To My Country (Doubleday & Co., Paperback, 1997); Prozac Diary (Random House, Hardcover or Paperback, 1998); Lying (Random House, Hardcover, 2000).

Jonathan Strong. Tike and Five Stories (Little Brown, 1969); Ourselves (Little Brown, 1971); Elsewhere (Ballantine Books, 1985); Secret Words (Zoland Books, Paperback, 1993); An Untold Tale (Zoland Books, 1993); Companion Pieces (Zoland Books, 1993); Offspring (Zoland Books, Paperback, 1995); The Old World (Zoland Books, Paperback, 1997); The Haunts of His Youth (Xlibris, Hardcover or Paperback, 1999); A Circle Around Her (Zoland, Paperback, 2000).

Alexandra Todd. Double Vision (UP of New England, Hardcover or Paperback, 1994).

Joseph Torra. Gas Station (Zoland Books, 1996); Keep Watching the Sky (Zoland Books, Paperback, 1996); Watteau Sky (Quale Press, Paperback, 1999).

Kate Wheeler. Not Where I Started From (Houghton Mifflin, Paperback, 1993); When Mountains Walked (Houghton Mifflin, Hardcover, 1993).

Dan Zevin. Entry-Level Life: A Complete Guide to Masquerading as a Member of the Real World (Bantam Books, Paperback, 1994); Nearly-Wed Handbook: How to Survive the Happiest Day of Your Life (Avon Books, Hardcover, 1998).