Books by Medill Alumni
Votes of Confidence: A Young Person’s Guide to American Elections
Jeff Fleischer (MSJ03) Every four years, coverage of the presidential election turns into a horse-race story about who’s leading the polls and who said what...
Read MoreBylines and Blessings
Judy Rosenfeld Gruen (MSJ86) What happens when career ambition begins to clash with a commitment to religious and personal values? In “Bylines and Blessings,” award-winning...
Read MoreDoorman Wanted – A Novel
Glenn Miller (MSJ90) Henry Franken has a problem with money – he has too much of it. When his unprincipled father dies, thirty-three-year-old Henry inherits...
Read MoreMy Fighting Family: Borders and Bloodlines and the Battles That Made Us
Morgan Campbell (BSJ99) Morgan Campbell comes from “a fighting family,” a connection and clash that reaches back to Chicago in the 1930s. His parents’ families...
Read MoreCoyotes Among US
Kerry Luft (BSJ87) Coyotes Among Us is an eye-opening volume of research and photographs exploring one of North America’s most persistent—and misunderstood—predators. The coyote. Even...
Read MoreCuring Cancer-phobia How Risk, Fear, and Worry Mislead Us
David Ropeik (BSJ72, MSJ73) In some ways our fear of cancer exceeds the risk, and the fear does great harm all by itself. “Curing Cancer-phobia...
Read MoreThe Blues Brothers
Daniel de Visé (MSJ90) In the first half of this exhaustively researched, highly informative book, de Visé, the author of King of the Blues and...
Read MoreKeep This Off The Record
Arden Joy (BSJ16) Abigail Meyer and Freya Jonsson can’t stand one another. But could their severe hatred be masking something else entirely? From the moment...
Read MoreWhat Music! The Fifty-Year Friendship Between Beethoven and Nannette Streicher, Who Built His Pianos
Laurie Lawlor (BSJ75) Inspiring, little-known story of two artists who changed each other’s lives and the course of musical history. Illustrated picture book for music...
Read MoreEverybody Here is Kin
BettyJoyce Nash (MSJ88) On Boneyard Island, Georgia, where everyone’s weirdly kin, thirteen-year-old Lucille is marooned when her mother goes AWOL with an old flame, leaving...
Read MoreHigher Power: An American Town’s Story of Faith, Hope, and Nuclear Energy
Casey Bukro (BSJ58, MSJ61) Nuclear power once promised to be the solution to the world’s energy crisis, but that all changed in the late twentieth...
Read MoreMind Game: An Inside Look at the Mental Health Playbook of Elite Athletes
Julie Kliegman (BSJ13) “In Mind Game: An Inside Look at the Mental Health Playbook of Elite Athletes,” Julie Kliegman offers insight into how elite athletes...
Read MoreInto the Soul of the World
Brad Wetzler (MSJ91) This powerful memoir shares an adventure journalist’s story of a decade-long, round-the-world quest to overcome his drug addiction and to understand and...
Read MoreThe Psilocybin Handbook for Women: How Magic Mushrooms, Psychedelic Therapy, and Microdosing Can Benefit Your Mental, Physical, and Spiritual Health
Jennifer Chesak (BSJ03) The Psilocybin Handbook for Women: How Magic Mushrooms, Psychedelic Therapy, and Microdosing Can Benefit Your Mental, Physical, and Spiritual Health by Jennifer...
Read MoreWho We Are Now
Lauryn Chamberlain (BSJ14) Four friends. Fifteen years. Who We Are Now is a story of Sliding Doors moments, those seemingly small choices of early adulthood...
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