J. P. Polidoro ’72G has written his seventh and final
novel, Tattoo – Incident at The Weirs. He lives in Laconia, New Hampshire,
and works in the biopharmaceutical/toxicology industry. Also a songwriter,
guitarist, performer, poet, and photography buff, he writes, “I will
cease writing books so that I can embark on a one- to two-year promotional
agenda to hype all my books to date.”
Margaret Andersen Rosenfeld ’73G, ’76G, a faculty member, former
vice provost, and former dean of Arts and Sciences at the University
of Delaware, was recently awarded a named professorship there. She
is the author of a new book published through the Mystic Seaport Museum
titled On Land and On Sea; A Century of Women
in the Rosenfeld Collection. Visit www.mysticseaport.org for more information on the collection.
Jim Ciullo ’74G is retired from the Massachusetts Department of Mental
Retardation and consults in the human services and education fields
while writing novels. His second, Orinoco, was released this summer.
His first, A Tango in Tuscany was published in 2002. He lives in Pittsfield.
Merrie Fidler ’76G is the author of The
Origins and History of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball
League. The book was voted
one of the five best baseball histories or biographies for 2006 by
the Society for American Baseball Research. For more information visit
www.merriefidler.com.
Michael Vilardi ’82, ’84G lives in Sound Beach, New York, and is the
author of The Time of His Coming. For more information visit www.thetimeofhiscoming.com.
Andrew Hoffman ’83, a professor of sustainable enterprise and codirector
of the Erb Institute for Global Sustainable Enterprise at the University
of Michigan in Ann Arbor, is the author of four published books: Organizations,
Policy and the Natural Environment: Institutional and Strategic Perspectives;
From Heresy to Dogma: An Institutional History of Corporate Environmentalism-Expanded
Edition; Competitive
Environmental Strategy: A Guide to the Changing Business Landscape; and Global
Climate Change: A Senior Level Dialogue at the Intersection of Economics,
Strategy, Technology, Science, Politics and International Negotiation. Two more books on climate change will be published in
September and next spring. For more information or to order, visit
webuser.bus.umich.edu/ajhoff/.
Mark Latour ’84G is the author of American
Government and the Vision of the Democrats. From his home in Palm Springs, California, he writes,
“The book is being used as a college textbook in American government,
it covers policy options related to environmental preservation, universal
healthcare, the decline of America’s manufacturing industry, the loss
of America’s family farms, job outsourcing, and other topics.”
Shirley F. B. Carter ’85G published her memoir about growing up as
a “colored girl” in New England during the Great Depression. Colored,
of Course, was pubished in conjunction with Goose River Press in Waldoboro,
Maine. Shirley is semiretired and lives in Worcester, where she is
at work on her second book, a retelling of her grandmother’s oral history.
Steven Moore ’85G lives in Concord and just published Full
Medical,
a techno-thriller about cloning. He writes, “It’s set in the near future
and is a scary extrapolation of today’s current events.”
Rebecca Thatcher Mucia ’86 published her tenth book, a biography of
Carl Sandburg, titled Poets and Playwrights: Carl
Sandburg, in February.
Amy Hoffman ’90G is the author of An
Army of Ex-Lovers: My Life at the Gay Community News. She is the editor of Women’s Review of Books.
Ana Maria Diaz-Marcos ’03G was a Fellow Researcher at the University
of Oviedo, Spain, before accepting a position at the Department of
Modern and Classical Languages at the University of Connecticut. She
writes, “I am very enthusiastic about moving back to New England with
my husband and daughter, Amelia.” Last year she published two books:
one based on her UMass Amherst dissertation entitled La
Edad de Seda: Representaciones de la Moda en la Literatura Española, translated The
Age of Silk: Representations of Fashion in Modern Spanish Literature, and an edition of La
Casa de Muñecas, The Doll’s House, by Rosario
de Acuña. “That edition was also inspired by one of my graduate papers
at UMass. I really feel that my time there was worthy, and I can’t
wait to visit Amherst and friends up there.”
