Following is a list of River Forest authors assembled by the River Forest Public Library and updated as they receive word of additional authors. This list is available on the website for the public to see. Go to www.riverforestlibrary.org. Click on the “What’s New” link on the left side of the page. Scroll down to view pictures of the event and click on the indicated link to see our list thus far. Any authors who are not seen on the list should contact Blaire Valentine, administrative assistant/PR, River Forest Public Library, 366-5205.
? Ted Anton – Eros, Magic and the Murder of Professor Culianu-Won, Carl Sandburg Award in Nonfiction from the Friends of the Chicago Library and nominated for a National Book Award from Investigative Reporters and Editors; “Bold Science: Seven Scientists Who Are Changing Our World, A Review of Academic Life” (article in Lingua Franca), nominated for a National Magazine Award in Reporting in 1993
? Joan Bauer – Best Foot Forward; Stand Tall; Hope Was Here; Backwater; Rules of the Road; Sticks; Thwonk; Squashed
? John Binder – The Chicago Outfit
? Doris Christopher – Come to the Table: A Celebration of Family Life; The Pampered Chef; The Pamered Chef: The Story of One of Americas Most Beloved Companies (2005)
? Walter H. Cheely – Naperville’s First Builder; The Oldest Log Building in Illinois; Shakes, Shooks and Shingles, Forest Pharmacy; Aromatic Cedar; Plywood in Ancient Times; The Return of an American Expatriate Species; Chips of Wood: The History of Toothpicks
? Ulrich Danckers, M.D ?#34; Early Chicago
? Andrew Davis ?#34; Treatise on Geochemistry (editor)
? Paul Faherty – The Windows of Saint Luke Church, River Forest, Illinois
? Al Gini – Why It’s Hard to be Good; The Importance of Being Lazy: In Praise, of Play, Leisure and Vacations; My Job, My Self: Work and the Creation of the Modern Individual; Philosophical Issues in Human Rights; It Comes With the Territory: An Inquiry Into the Nature of Work; Case Studies in Business Ethics; Heigh-Ho! Heigh-Ho! Funny, Insightful, Encouraging and Sometimes Painful Quotes about Work; Working Ourselves to Death (play that he wrote and produced); Letters of a Consumaholic (play that he wrote and produced)
? Cathleen M. Giustino – Tearing Down Prague’s Jewish Town: Ghetto Clearance and the Legacy of Middle-Class Ethnic Politics around 1900
? John Hagensick ?#34; Carving the Rose; Magic Relief Carving; Carving Realistic Flowers
? Paul Harvey – Paul Harvey’s The Rest of the Story
? Harriet Hausman ?#34; Reflections: A History of River Forest
? Donald J. Heimburger – Denver & Rio Grande Western Narrow Gauge Plans (1976); Rio Grande Steam Locomotives (1981); Wabash (1984); Along the East Broad Top (1987); Wabash Standard Plans and Reference (1993); Illinois Central: Main Line of Mid-America (1995); The American Streamliner, Pre-War Years (1996); The American Streamliner, Post-War Years (2001); Classic Vintage Crawlers & Dozers Vol. I (2003)
? Thomas J. Hickey – History of Twentieth Century Philosophy of Science; Introduction to Metascience: An Information Science Approach to Methodology of Scientific Research
? William A. Hoisington, Jr. – The Casablanca Connection: French Colonial Policy, 1936-1943; Taxpayer Revolt in France: The National Taxpayers’ Federation
? Susan L. Adler Hoke, LCSW, ACSW – My Body Is Mine, My Feelings Are Mine: A Stroybook About Body Safety for Young Children with an Adult Guidebook; Raising Sexually Healthy Children (video)
? Melvin G. Holli – Reform in Detroit (1969); Detroit (1975); Ethnic Chicago: A Multicultural Portrait (1981), 3d edition, 1995 – Nonfiction prize Society Midland Authors, and the Best book award Illinois Political Science Association in 1985; Bashing Chicago Traditions (1989); Restoration: Chicago Elects a New Daley (1991); The Mayors: The Chicago Political Tradition (1995); The American Mayor: The Best and Worst Big City Leaders (1999); From Mid-Century to Millennium: A View From Chicago’s City Hall (1999); The University of Illinois at Chicago: A Political History (2000); The Wizard of Washington: Emil Hurja, Franklin Roosevelt, and the Birth of Public Opinion Polling (2002); World War II Chicago (2003); Biological Dictionary of American Mayors 1820-1980
? Clifford Johnson – Up There with the Big Boys: The Cliff Johnson Story (as told by F. Dean Lueking)
? Andrew Kopan – Education and Greek Immigrants in Chicago 1892 ?#34; 1973: A Study in Ethnic Survival (European Immigrants and American Society); Rethinking Educational Equality (series on contemporary educational issues)
? Marcy Kubat ?#34; Sketches from a Sojourner’s Notebook; Skimming the Surface; Phi Sigma Lectures
? Hillel Levin – Grand Delusions; John De Lorean: The Maverick Mogul; co-authored with Robert Cooley: When Corruption Was King
? Dr. F. Dean Lueking – Preaching: The Art of Connecting God and People; The Last Long Pastorate: A Journey of Grace, Grace Under Pressure; A Century of Caring; Let’s Talk Marriage: A Guide for Couples Preparing to Marry
? John F. McDonald – Economic Analysis of an Urban Housing Market (1979); Employment Location and Industrial Land Use in Metropolitan Chicago (1984); Fundamentals of Urban Economics (1997); Economics of Urban Highway Congestion and Pricing (1999); Urban Economics: Theory and Policy (2005)
? Dr. Victor A. Mirelman – Jewish Buenos Aires, 1890-1930: In Search of an Identity (Jewish Holocaust Studies)
? Virginia Moe ?#34; Animal Inn: The Stories of a Trailside Museum
? G.E. Murray ?#34; ARTS of a Cold Sun
? Richard H. Neal ?#34; Army Medic: World War II, 1943-1946, A Memoir
? John Nicholas – Competitive Manufacturing Management: Continuous Improvement; Customer-Focused Quality, and Lean Production; Project Management for Business and Engineering: Principles and Practice; The Portal to Lean Production: Proven Methods for Doing More with Less
? Steve Schmidt – Guide to Fly Fishing in Utah
? Linda Schwab (writing as Emily Maxwell) – The Wicked Count; Queen of Hearts; An Easter Disguise
? James Park Sloan – War Games; Jerzy Kosinski: A Biography
? Lenny and Robin Soffer ?#34; Financial Statement Analysis: A Valuation Approach
? Ellen FitzSimmons Steinburg ?#34; Teach Me: An Ethnography of Adolescent Learning; Irma: A Chicago Woman’s Story, 1871-1966
? Patrick H. Tolan ?#34; Multi-systemic Structural-strategic Intervention for Child and Adolescent Behavior Problems; Researching Community Psychology: The Integration of Theories and Methods; Handbook of Clinical Research and Practice with Adolescents; What Works in Reducing Adolescent Violence: An Empirical Review of the Field; Memoirs del Seminar Internacional Sobre Prevencion Temprano de al Violencia; Developing Psychology’s National Agenda for Children’s Mental Health: APA’s Response to the Surgeon General’s Action Agenda for Children’s Mental Health; Preventing Youth Substance Abuse: Science-based Programs for Children and Adolescents
? Vladimir A. Tsesis, M.D. – All in the Family: Doctor Included; Who’s Yelling in My Stethoscope, honored with a Parent’s Choice Approved seal; Children, Parents, Lollipops, 1997 Small Press Book Awards Finalist
? Michele Weldon – I Closed My Eyes; Writing to Save Your Life
? Rinna McCarthy Williams – From Royal Garden to Gothic Cathedral; The History of St. Andrew’s Cathedral; Mhealani and the King of Hawai’i; Deaths and Funerals of Major Hawaiian Ali’i