The Book Seminar

Samuel G. Freedman

Without Sam, most of us in the seminar would not be authors. He has set a fine example of writing narrative nonfiction himself with his six books and numerous magazine and newspaper articles.

• Small Victories (1990)
• Upon This Rock (1993)
• The Inheritance (1996)
• Jew Vs. Jew (2000)
• Who She Was (2005)
• Letters to a Young Journalist (2006)

Leah Hager Cohen

• Train Go Sorry* (1994)
• Glass, Paper, Beans (1997)
• Heat Lightning (1997)
• The Stuff of Dreams (2001)
• Heart, You Bully, You Punk (2003)
• House Lights (2005)
• Without Apology (2005)

Elizabeth Kadetsky

• First There Is a Mountain (2004)

S.H. Fernando Jr.

• The New Beats* (1994)

Julian Rubinstein

• Ballad of the Whiskey Robber (2004)

Tara Bahrampour

• To See and See Again* (1999)

Philippe Wamba

• Kinship* (1999)

Ken Baker

• Man Made (2001)
• They Don't Play Hockey in Heaven (2003)
• Hollywood Hussein (2005)

Sasha Abramsky

• Hard Time Blues (2002)
• Ill-Equipped (2003; with Jamie Fellner and Human Rights Watch)
• Conned (2006)
• American Furies (2007)

Leslie Chang

• Beyond the Narrow Gate* (1999)

Gary Andrew Poole

• The Galloping Ghost (2008)

Brian McDonald

• My Father's Gun* (1999)
• Indian Summer (2003)
• Safe Harbor (2006)
• Last Call at Elaine's (2008)

Phyllis Vine

• Household and Kin (1980; with Renate Bridenthal, Amy Swerdlow, and Joan Kelly)
• Families in Pain (1982)
• One Man's Castle (2004)

Leron Kornreich

• Ivory Towers (2001)

Josh Wolk

• Cabin Pressure (2007)

Sadanand Dhume

• My Friend the Fanatic (2008)

Patrick J. McCloskey

• The Street Stops Here* (2009)

David M. Lawrence

• Upheaval from the Abyss* (2002)
• Huntington's Disease (2009)

Alice Sparberg Alexiou

• Jane Jacobs (2006)

Shira Boss-Bicak

• Green with Envy (2006)

Adam Fifield**

• A Blessing Over Ashes (2000)
• Rudy! (2001; with Wayne Barrett)

Adam Zagoria

• She's Got Handle*** (2001)
• Ultimate (2005)

Elisabeth Eaves

• Bare* (2002)

Cheryl Pientka

• Frommer's Paris from $80 a Day 2001 (2000; with Jean Agid)
• France for Dummies (2003; with Darwin Porter and Danforth Prince)
• Paris for Dummies (2003, 2007)

Jana A. Karam

• Into the Breach* (2002)

Jacob Levenson

• The Secret Epidemic* (2004)

Sandy Edry

• The Best American History Quiz Book (2002; with Tom Demichael and Laura Lee)

Pam Winnick

• A Jealous God (2005)

John Authers

• The Victim's Fortune* (2002; with Richard Wolffe)

Harry Brunius

• Better for All the World* (2006)

Ivor Hanson****

• Life on the Ledge* (2006)

S. Mitra Kalita

• Suburban Sahibs* (2003)

Brad Tuttle

• The Ellis Island Collection (2004)
• How Newark Became Newark (2009)

Jonathan Englert

• The Collar* (2006)

Minal Hajratwala

• Leaving India* (2009)

David Houze

• Twilight People* (2006)

Mirta Ojito

• Finding Mañana* (2005)

Holley Bishop

• Robbing the Bees* (2005)

Thai Jones

• A Radical Line* (2004)

Liel Liebowitz

• Aliya* (2006)

Joan Quigley

• The Day the Earth Caved In* (2007)

Kerry Sheridan

• Bagpipe Brothers* (2004)

Michael Bobelian

• Children of Armenia* (2009)

Murray Greenberg

• Passing Game* (2008)

Lindsay Pollack

• The Girl with the Gallery* (2006)

Kavitha Rajagopalan

• Muslims of Metropolis* (2008)

Kelly McMasters

• Welcome to Shirley* (2008)

Adam Pitluk

• Standing Eight* (2006)

Jessica Snyder Sachs

• Encyclopedia of Inventions (2001)
• Time of Death (2002)
• Good Germs, Bad Germs* (2007)

Brian Eule

• Basketball for Fun! (2003)
• Match Day* (2009)

Alyssa Katz

• Our Lot* (2009)

Alia Malek

• Amreeka* (2009)

* Book from seminar

** Adam Fifield was encouraged to drop out of Columbia by Sam because he was already an excellent writer. We include him as an honorary member of the seminar.

*** Book developed from a master's project supervised by Sam

**** Ivor Hanson graduated in 1998, but was invited to audit the seminar in 2000