Recent Books By Alumni 2026

Vanderbilt University

(Gathered from class notes submitted from December 2025 through June 2026)

Reflections on Public Life From JFK to Trump (Post Hill Press) by Lamar Alexander, BA'62

Introduction to Special Education: The Spectrum of Exceptionalities (Kendall-Hunt Publishers) by Moniqueka E. Gold, MEd'85, EdD'98

Secrets to Surviving the Toddler Years (self-published) by Erin Redig Leigh, BA'97

The New Old Style: Anachronism in Contemporary Comics (University of Nebraska Press) by Matthew LeVay, BA'02

Master Machine Learning with scikit-learn (self-published) by Kevin Markham, BE'02

This Must Be the Place (Macmillan) by Kelly Quindlen, BA'10

My Mother Is a Dragonfly (GFB) by Amy Scott Rooker, JD'02

The Blood of the Land (LFEA Press, to be published October 9, 2026) by Lewis Schrager, MD'91

Listening for Liberation (Fortress Press) by Mindy McGarrah Sharp, MA'08, PhD'10

Bottle Service (Simon & Schuster) and Double Standard (831 Stories/Author's Equity) by Mallory Morse Whitmore, BS'10

Christ in You: Experiencing Intimacy with Jesus (Brookstone Publishing Group) by Gary York, BE'81

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