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Duke Authors

To enhance the conversation, we suggest reading from this selection of Duke authors who are making a difference in their field:

Mirror to America, by John Hope Franklin

Wittgenstein Flies a Kite, by Susan G. Sterrett

Messages to the World: The Statements of Osama bin Laden," edited by Bruce Lawrence

The Qur'an: A Biography, by Bruce Lawrence

The Interpreter, by Alice Kaplan

Success Through Failure, by Henry Petroski

After Brown, by Charles Clotfelter

Desert Memories, by Ariel Dorfman

In Search of the Promised Land, by John Hope Franklin

The Good Priest's Son, by Reynolds Price

Ishi's Brain, by Orin Starn

Exodus, by Carol Meyers

Incest and Agency in Elizabeth's England, by Maureen Quilligan

Mississippi Women: Their Histories, Their Lives. Forward by Anne Firor Scott

The Book of Ruth, A Novel, by Frank Lentricchia

Portents of the Real: A Primer for Post-9/11 America, by Susan Willis

The War Complex: World War II in Our Times, by Marianna Torgovnick

Selected Poems, by James Applewhite

"Can We All Get Along?" Racial and Ethnic Minorities in American Politics, Fourth Edition (2006) by Paula D. McClain (Duke professor) and Joseph Stewart Jr.

Mike Krzyzewski's "Leading with the Heart".

Azoulay, Katya Gibel; "Black, Jewish and Interracial: It's Not the Color of Your Skin, but the Race of Your Kin, and Other Myths of Identity" (Duke University Press, 1997).

Gomez, Edward Madrid; novel "The Angel's Share" (1998). He has also written extensively about Japanese modern art.

Melton, Buckner "Buck" Jr.; "The First Impeachment." Earned his doctorate from Duke in 1990.

Styron, William; "Inheritance of Night: Early Drafts of 'Lie Down in Darkness.'" Duke Press