Biographies & Memoirs

John Ayoola Akinyemi (M.S. '70)

• Coming 2 America: This is a Story about a Fifteen-Year-Old African Girl (story about his late wife, Agnes)

Joseph Baar Topinka (J.D. '93)

• Just Judy: A Citizen and Leader for Illinois (story about his mother, Illinois political leader Judy Baar Topinka) 

Richard F. Bales (J.D. '83)

• The Forgotten Literature of Nelson Algren

Joseph Balzer ('77)

• Flying Drunk: The True Story of a Northwest Airlines Flight, Three Drunk Pilots, and One Man's Fight for Redemption

Stuart Bendelow ('60, M.S. '62)

• Thomas "Tom" Bendelow: The Johnny Appleseed of American Golf

Melissa Blake ('05)

• Beautiful People: My Thirteen Truths About Disability

Mary Kay Blakely Koepp ('70, M.A. '73)

• Wake Me When It's Over
• American Mom:  Motherhood, Politics, and Humble Pie

Beverley Bare Buehrer ('69, M.S.Ed. '72)

• Boris Karloff: A Bio-Bibliography
• Cary Grant: A Bio-Bibliography

Joe Chiappetta ('89)

• Silly Daddy

Lorna Collier ('83)

• Tilli's Story

Kelly Ann Compton ('78, M.S.Ed. '86)

• Discombobulated: An Inspiring Journey of Hope Through Mental Illness

Lee Congdon (M.A. ’67, Ph.D. ’73)

• Solzhenitsyn: The Historical-Spiritual Destinies of Russia and the West

Rick Davis ('73)

• Butterbean: When Glory's Just a Whisper

Howard Farber (M.A. '74)

• Memories of a Holocaust Survivor

Anna Gouker ('11)

• Don't Ask Permission to Fly

Allan G. Hedberg ('60, M.A. '63)

• Jonathan Edwards: A Life Well Lived

Dr. Leon Higgs (M.S. '74)

• Barefoot to Boardroom: The Intriguing Story of a Poor Country Lad Turned College President

Robert Hughes ('71)

• Running With Walker

Mike Jaroch ('67)

• Extraordinary Lessons From an Ordinary Life

Beverly Johnson Biehr (M.S. '75)

• Casualties of Peacemaking

Joyce Lohse ('73)

• Unsinkable: The Molly Brown Story
• Justina Ford: Medical Pioneer
• General William Palmer: Railroad Pioneer
• First Governor, First Lady: John and Eliza Routt of Colorado
• Emily Griffith: Opportunity's Teacher
• Baby Doe Tabor: Matchless Silver Queen
• A Yellowstone Savage: Life in Nature's Wonderland

John Manderino ('73)

• Crying at the Movies

Marc Marin ('05)

• Resonance: Fear, Dread, and Love in the Crucible of Army Life

Bob O'Connor ('79, M.P.A. '82, J.D. '89)

• The Virginian Who Might Have Saved Lincoln

Eugene Patrizi ('59, M.A. '68)

• Everybody's Uncle

Diana Pavlac Glyer (M.S.Ed. '81)

• The Company They Keep: C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien as Writers of Community
• C.S. Lewis: Life, Works, and Legacy

Steve Peifer ('77)

• A Dream So Big: Our Unlikely Journey to End the Tears of Hunger

Olga Anastasia Pelensky ('68)

• Isak Dinesen: The Life and Imagination of a Seducer

Edward Piotrowski ('74)

• A Life Well Fished: "Reel" Adventures and the Stuff That Happened In Between

Barry Rozner ('84)

• Mark Grace: Winning With Grace

Toni Seymour

• Ricochet Through Life: Weaving Your Way Through a Brain Tumor

Richard Otto Stahl ('72, M.S.Ed. '74, Ed.Spec. '85)

• United States Army Europe: One Soldier's Story
• Back to Basic, Basic to School
• APO 96490: Vietnam Redux
• 428 West Center Street in Retrospect

Susan Uehara Rakstang ('72) 

• Cooking for Her Eyes: Transcription of a Sonata

Ryan G. Van Cleave ('94)

• Unplugged: My Journey Into the Dark World of Video Game Addiction

Ralph Wallis Jr. ('72)

• The Memoirs of a Rambling Mind

Glen R. Wherfel ('71)

• More Than Just the Numbers: My Dream Career in Accounting

James A. Wolter ('60, Ed.D. '80)

• Finding Miss Fong

Allan Zullo ('69)

• The Hero Inside of You
• The Greatest Survivor Stories Never Told
• The Greatest Firefighter Stories Never Told