Stephen A. Schwarzman Building > Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers

The New York Public Library
Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers

July 2009
Books by Cullman Center Fellows
(based on work done at the Center)

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

Hilary Ballon (Fellow) and Kenneth T. Jackson, eds., 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.

Carmen Boullosa, La Otra Mano de Lepanto, Fondo de Cultura Económica, Mexico, 2005.

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, The Other Half: The Life of Jacob Riis and the World of Immigrant America, W. W. Norton, 2008. Translation by Annette Buk-Swienty of Den ideelle amerikaner en biografi om journalisten, reformisten og fotografen 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.

Claudine Cohen, La femme des origines: images de la femme dans la préhistoire occidentale, Belin-Herscher (France), 2003.

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

Jennifer Egan, The Keep, Knopf, 2006.

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

Steve Fraser, Every Man a Speculator: A History of Wall Street in American Life, HarperCollins, 2005.

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

Paul Freedman, ed., Food: The History of Taste, University of California Press, 2007.

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

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

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

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

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

A. M. Homes, The Mistress’s Daughter, Viking, 2007.

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, 2008.

Roger S. Keyes, Ehon: The Artist and the Book in Japan, The 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, 2008.

Howard Markel, When Germs Travel, Pantheon, 2004.

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

Anne Mendelson, Milk: The Surprising Story of Milk Through the Ages Alfred A. Knopf, 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, HarperCollins, 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, Knopf, 2005.

José Manuel Prieto, Rex, Anagrama (Barcelona), 2007.Translated by Esther Allen and published as Rex: A Novel, Grove, 2009.

Francine Prose, The Lives of the Muses: Nine Women and the Artists They Inspired, HarperCollins, 2002.

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

Katherine Russell Rich, Dreaming in Hindi, Houghton Mifflin, 2009.

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.

Danzy Senna, Where Did You Sleep Last Night? A Personal History, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009.

Laurie Sheck, A Monster’s Notes, Knopf, 2009.

T. J. Stiles, The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt, Knopf, 2009.

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

Colson Whitehead, Sag Harbor, Doubleday, 2009.

Sean Wilentz, The Age of Reagan: A History 1974–2008, HarperCollins, 2008.

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