Category Archives: Alumni Authors
Trey and the Streets of Israel
Boston College graduate and basketball star Tyrese Rice has published a second children’s book featuring his characters Trey and Marcus. In Trey and the Streets of Israel, Trey learns about different people and their culture through his new friend, Kyle. … Continue reading
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A case of murder
Dermot Sparhawk has another murder case to solve in a new novel by writer Tom MacDonald, who graduated from Boston College with an MBA in 2002. The Murder of Vincent Dunn is MacDonald’s fifth book to feature the Boston-based private … Continue reading
A haunted house in Maine
Mark Lance, a former labor reporter who graduated from Boston College in 1971, has published his first book, The Weber House (2022). It’s a young adult mystery that tells the story of Nicole who has moved into a house on … Continue reading
A kid’s guide to the First Amendment
Boston College graduate Clelia Gore, a former literary agent and vice president of a boutique literary agency, has co-authored a children’s book, Your Freedom, Your Power (Running Press Kids/Hachette, 2023). Writing under the name Clelia Castro-Malaspina, she and her co-author … Continue reading
Mystery on Cape Cod
Boston College graduate Ted (T.M.) Murphy, writing under the pen name Declan Rush, has published a new novel set on Cape Cod. In the suspense thriller Macabre Trophies (Dark Waters Books, 2023), J.T. O’Rourke’s life has entered another downward spiral, … Continue reading
Animals in the Bible
In What Does the Bible Say About Animals? (New City Press, 2022) author Jaime Waters surveys all the different ways that animals appear in the Bible. She highlight animals as a part of creation—as something that’s blessed and cared for … Continue reading
Welcome to Shiver-by-the-Sea
Boston College grad Erin Dionne, a children’s book author, has created a silly, spooky new chapter book series about friendship, community restoration and involvement, and helping your neighbors . . . even if some of them may be monsters. The … Continue reading
Murder runs in the family
Bestselling author James Patterson and Boston College graduate Mike Lupica, an acclaimed sports journalist and bestselling author, have teamed to write The House of Wolves (Little, Brown and Company, 2023). After her father’s murder, Jenny Wolf is left in charge … Continue reading
Eleanor Roosevelt & Mary McLeod Bethune
Bestselling novelist Marie Benedict, a graduate of Boston College, and acclaimed author Victoria Christopher Murray have written a new historical novel about the singular friendship between First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and educator and civil rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune. The … Continue reading
Honors and a new publication for Lynne Viti
Boston College graduate Lynne Viti, who is the poet laureate for Westwood, Massachusetts, was honored last month with the Westbeth Artists Housing’s 2023 Miriam Chaikin Writing Award in Poetry. She also was awarded Third Prize for her poem “Westwood Lodge, … Continue reading
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