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Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers

Books published and forthcoming by former Fellows as of February 2008
Note: titles in boldface are forthcoming.


Donald Antrim, The Afterlife, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006.

Hilary Ballon (Fellow) and Kenneth T. Jackson (editors), Robert Moses and the Modern City: The Transformation of New York, W. W. Norton, 2007.

Andrea Barrett, The Air We Breathe, W. W. Norton, 2007.

Thomas Bender, A Nation Among Nations: America’s Place in World History, Hill and Wang, 2006.

David Blight, A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Harcourt, 2007.

Emily Braun (Fellow), Emily D. Bilski, Leon Botstein, Shira Brisman, Barbara Hahn, and Lucia Re, Jewish Women and Their Salons: The Power of Conversation, Yale University Press, 2005.

Tom Buk-Swienty, Jacob A. Riis, W.W. Norton, August 2008.

Tom Buk-Swienty, Jacob A. Riis, Gyldendal (Denmark), 2005.

D. Graham Burnett, Trial by Jury, Knopf, 2001.

Pamela Clemit (Fellow) and Gina Luria Walker, ed., William Godwin’s Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Broadview, 2001.

Andrew Delbanco, Melville: His World and Work, Knopf, 2005.

Jennifer Egan, The Keep, Knopf, 2006.

Nathan Englander, The Ministry of Special Cases, Knopf, 2007.

Steven Fraser, Every Man a Speculator: A History of Wall Street in American Life, Harper Collins, 2005.

Paul Freedman (editor), Food: The History of Taste, University of California Press, 2007.

Paul Freedman, Out of the East: Spices and the Medieval Imagination, Yale University Press, March 2008.


Walter Frisch, German Modernism: Music and the Arts, University of California Press, 2005.

Linda Gordon (Fellow) and Gary Y. Okihiro, editors, Impounded: Dorothea Lange and the Censored Images of Japanese American Internment, W. W. Norton, 2006.

Francisco Goldman, The Divine Husband, Grove Atlantic, 2004.

Francisco Goldman, The Art of Political Murder: Who Killed the Bishop?, Grove Atlantic, October 2007.

Anthony Holden, The Wit in the Dungeon: A Life of Leigh Hunt, Little, Brown, 2005.

A.M. Homes, This Book Will Save Your Life, Viking, 2006.

Ada Louise Huxtable, Frank Lloyd Wright, Viking, 2004.

Eiko Ikegami, Bonds of Civility, Cambridge University Press, 2005.

Susan Jacoby, Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism, Metropolitan Books, 2004.

Patrick Radden Keefe, Chatter: Inside the Secret World of Global Eavesdropping, Random House, 2005.

Elizabeth Kendall, Autobiography of a Wardrobe, Pantheon, April 2008.

Roger S. Keyes, Ehon: The Artist and the Book in Japan, New York Public Library, 2006.

Sheila Kohler, Bluebird, or The Invention of Happiness, Other Press, 2007.

Allen Kurzweil, The Grand Complication, Hyperion, 2001.

Hermione Lee, Edith Wharton, Knopf, 2007.

Phillip Lopate, Waterfront: A Journey Around Manhattan, Crown, 2004.

Colum McCann, Zoli: A Novel, Random House, 2007.

Jill McDonough, Habeas Corpus, Salt Publishing, June 2008.

Howard Markel, When Germs Travel, Pantheon, 2004.

Meier, Andrew, The Lost Spy: An American in Stalin’s Secret Service, W. W. Norton, August 2008.

Douglas Morris, Justice Imperiled: The Anti-Nazi Lawyer Max Hirschberg in Weimar Germany, University of Michigan Press, 2005.

Josip Novakovich, April Fool’s Day, Harper Collins, 2004.

Joseph O’Connor, Redemption Falls, Free Press, 2007.

Philip J. Pauly, Fruits and Plains: The Horticultural Transformation of America, Harvard University Press, 2008.

Caryl Phillips, Dancing in the Dark, Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.

José Manuel Prieto, Rex, Anagrama (Barcelona), 2007.

Francine Prose, The Lives of the Muses: Nine Women and the Artists they Inspired, Harper Collins, 2002.

Melanie Rehak, Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her, Harcourt, 2005.

Harvey Sachs, The Letters of Arturo Toscanini, Knopf, 2002.

Raymond P. Scheindlin, The Song of the Distant Dove: Judah Helevi’s Pilgrimage, Oxford University Press, 2007.

Stacy Schiff, A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America, Henry Holt, 2005.

Jeff Talarigo, The Ginseng Hunter, Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, April 2008.

Colm Tóibín, Lady Gregory’s Toothbrush, University of Wisconsin, 2002.

Jeremy Treglown, V.S. Pritchett: A Working Life, Random House, 2005.

David Waldstreicher, Runaway America: Benjamin Franklin, Slavery, and the American Revolution, Hill & Wang, 2004.

Edmund White, Hotel de Dream, Ecco, 2007.

Serinity Young, Courtesans and Tantric Consorts: Sexualities in Buddhist Narrative, Iconography, and Ritual, Routledge, 2004.