Local Authors of Pelham, NY

This list includes novelists, journalists, historians and essayists who live or lived in Pelham and the surrounding area. Many of the writers have held readings and other events at the Town of Pelham Public Library to share their work with the community. Come explore these titles in our display! Know someone who should be on this list but isn’t? Email librarian Tasha Gross at NGross@wlsmail.org.

Adams, Mark

• Meet Me In Atlantis
• Turn Right At Machu Picchu: Rediscovering the Lost City One Step at a Time
• Tip of the Iceberg: My 3,000-mile Journey Around Wild Alaska, the Last Great American Frontier

Birger, Jon

• Date-onomics: How Dating Became a Lopsided Game

Browning, Dominique

• Slow Love: How I Lost My Job, Put On My Pajamas & Found Happiness
• The New Garden Paradise: Great Private Gardens of the World
• Paths of Desire: the Passions of a Suburban Gardener
• Around the House and in the Garden: a Memoir of Heartbreak, Healing, and Home Improvement

Carcaterra, Lorenzo

• Midnight Angels
• Apaches
• Chasers
• Paradise City
• The Wolf

Chafets, Zev

• The Project
• Cooperstown Confidential
• Rush Limbaugh: An Army of One

Coto-Chang, Carolina

• It’s Not So Bad After All!

Cullen, Rachel

• Only Summer
• Second Chances
• The Way I’ve Heard It Should Be
• The Last Summer Sister
• First Came Us

Driesen, Jeremy

• Vinyard Noir: Scenes from an Island; Photographs

Dukess, Karen

• The Last Party

Dunbar, Anthony P.

• Against the Grain: Southern Radicals and Prophets, 1929-1959

Fenlon, Thomas B.

• The Emmet Firm: a History of the New York Law Firm of Emmet, Marvin and Martin, LLP from 1805 to 1999
• Pelham, New York: Memories of a Century After Incorporation

Forte, David

• The Red Light Screenplays: Three Stories Hollywood Loved to Hate

Freedman, Paul

• Food: the History of Taste
• Out of the East: Spices and the Medieval Imagination
• American Cuisine: and How it Got This Way
• Ten Restaurants That Changed America

Kaplan, Janice

• The Botox Diaries
• Mine Are Spectacular

Klein, Joe

• The Running Mate
• Woody Guthrie: A Life
• Politics Lost: How American Democracy Was Trivialized By People Who Think You’re Stupid
• The Natural: the Misunderstood Presidency of Bill Clinton
• Charlie Mike: a True Story of Heroes Who Brought Their Mission Home

Kleiner, Art

• The Age of Heretics: Heroes, Outlaws, and the Forerunners of Corporate Change

Klots, Alexander B. and Elise Broughton

• Insects of North America
• 1001 Questions Answered About Insects

Konigsberg, Ruth Davis

• The Truth About Grief: the Myth of Its Five Stages and the New Science of Loss

Miner, Brad

• The Compleat Gentleman: the Modern Man’s Guide to Chivalry

Montaigne, Fen

• Fraser’s Penguins: a Journey to the Future in Antarctica

Morris, Edwin T.

• Fragrance: the Story of Perfume from Cleopatra to Chanel
• The Gardens of China: History, Art, and Meanings

Nagorski, Andrew

• Last Stop Vienna
• Hitlerland: American Eyewitnesses to the Nazis Rise to Power
• The Nazi Hunters
• The Year Germany Lost the War: 1941

Navin, Rhiannon

• Only Child

Poultney, Sherman K.

• Memorial Day in Leominster
• No Safe Haven

Salama, Jordan

• Every Day the River Changes (coming soon!)

Seely, Julie L.

• Skinny House: a Memoir of Family

Van Ogtrop, Kristin

• Just Let Me Lie Down: Necessary Terms for the Half-Insane Working Mom
• Did I Say That Out Loud? Midlife Indignities and How to Survive Them

Volpe, Joseph

• The Toughest Show On Earth: My Rise and Reign at the Metropolitan Opera

Wahls, Zach

• My Two Moms: Lessons of Love, Strength, and What Makes a Family

Weschler, Lawrence

• Everything That Rises: a Book of Convergences
• Vermeer in Bosnia
• Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder
• Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: a Life of Contemporary Artist Robert Irwin

Winter, Brian

• Pelé: Why Soccer Matters

Yak, Patricia

• What Color Are Kisses? A Collection of Poems for Children

Zahradnik, Rich

• Drop Dead Punk
• Last Words 
• Lights Out Summer 
• A Black Sail