2011 Best Book Archives - UMSL Daily

2011 Best Book

English professor’s book makes NYT Gift Guide

If you’re looking for holiday gift ideas for the book lover in your life, Dwight Garner of The New York Times has some suggestions. And at the top of that...

Through the woods with John Dalton: MFA in Creative Writing director writes second novel, ‘The Inverted Forest’

John Dalton considers himself a lucky guy. Take 2011. It’s been a great year for the University of Missouri–St. Louis alumnus and faculty member. He was promoted to associate professor...

English alumna wins award for literary fiction

Anene Tressler-Hauschultz became a novelist with the release this year of her debut, “Dancing With Gravity.” Now the University of Missouri-St. Louis alumna, MA English 1996, can add “award-winning” to...

Novelist writes follow-up to acclaimed debut

Novelist John Dalton set out to follow up his critically acclaimed 2004 debut, “Heaven Lake,” with a suburbia-centered book along the lines of “Revolutionary Road” and “The Ice Storm.” The...

St. Louis Post-Dispatch reviews 2 UMSL books on St. Louis’ origins

St. Louis’ French origins are explored in two new books with University of Missouri–St. Louis connections. They were reviewed together in an article in the Sunday edition of the St....

NY Times calls professor’s book ‘remarkable’

For many authors, a favorable book review from The New York Times is a career highlight. Richard Cook, professor and chair of the Department of English at the University of Missouri–St. Louis,...

Historian explores St. Louis’ beginnings

J. Frederic Fausz, associate professor of history at the University of Missouri–St. Louis, set out to explore the 250-year-old mystery of why and how French St. Louis was founded. The...

Historian’s book gives fresh take on St. Louis’ French founding

The animal wealth of the western “wilderness” provided by talented “savages” encouraged French Americans from Illinois, Canada and Louisiana to found a cosmopolitan center of international commerce that was a...