A Sampling of Mendel Media Group Authors and their Books
Stacey Ballis
Author of commercial women's fiction.
Good Enough to Eat (Berkley/Penguin, 2010), The Spinster Sisters (Berkley/Penguin, 2007), Room for
Improvement
(Berkley/Penguin, 2006), Sleeping Over (Red Dress Ink/Harlequin, 2005), Inappropriate
Men
(Red Dress Ink/Harlequin, 2004)

Mark Bego
New York Times bestselling celebrity biographer and co-author of celebrity memoirs.
Elton John (Phoenix, 2009), Billy Joel (DaCapo, 2006)

Livia Bitton-Jackson
Holocaust survivor and memoirist.
Saving What Remains: A Holocaust Survivor's Journey Home to Reclaim Her Ancestry (Lyons/Globe
Pequot, 2009)

Stephanie Stuve-Bodeen / S.A. Bodeen
Award-winning author of picture books and young adult thrillers.
The Gardener (Feiwel & Friends/Macmillan, 2010), The Compound (Feiwel & Friends/Macmillan,
2008),
A Small Brown Dog with a Wet Pink Nose (Little, Brown, 2009)

Bertie Bowman
Hearing coordinator for the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Step by Step: A Memoir of Hope, Friendship, Perseverance, and Living the American Dream (One
World/Ballantine, 2008)

Lindsay Brin
Fitness and pregnancy expert.
The Pregnancy Fitness Book (Plume, 2010), The Cheerleader Fitness Plan (Plume, 2009)

Peter Carlson
Longtime Washington Post writer.
K Blows Top: A Cold War Comic Interlude Starring Nikita Khrushchev, America's Most Unlikely Tourist
(PublicAffairs/Perseus, 2009)

Anne-Marie Cusac
George Polk Award-winning journalist and journalism professor.
Cruel and Unusual: The Culture of Punishment in America (Yale, 2009)

Dave DeWitt
Bestselling food author, and founder and owner of the Fiery Foods Show.
Thomas Jefferson & the Founding Foodies: Tracking the Early Transformation of American Food and Drink
(Sourcebooks, 2011),
1,001 Hot & Spicy Recipes (Surrey/Agate, 2010), The Complete Chile Pepper Book
(Timber/Workman, 2009),
The Spicy Food Lover's Bible (Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 2005)

Larry Diamond
Stanford University Professor, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, founding coeditor of the Journal of
Democracy
, and codirector of the International Forum for Democratic Studies of the National
Endowment for Democracy.
The Spirit of Democracy: The Struggle to Build Free Societies Throughout the World (Times
Books/Henry Holt, 2008),
Squandered Victory: The American Occupation and the Bungled Effort to Bring
Democracy to Iraq
(Times Books/Henry Holt, 2005)

Adam Felber
Comedian, regular on NPR's "Wait! Wait! Don't Tell Me" and writer on HBO's "Real Time with Bill
Maher."
Schrödinger's Ball (Random House, 2006)

Dr. Leonard Goldberg
Internationally bestselling author of medical thrillers.
Patient One (Sterling & Ross, 2010), the Joanna Blalock "Deadly" and "Fatal" series
(Dutton/Signet, 1992-2003)

Benjamin Carter Hett
Attorney, Hunter College/CUNY history professor, and award-winning author.
Crossing Hitler: The Man Who Put the Nazis on the Witness Stand (Oxford, 2008)

Julie Klausner
Writer and performer.
I Don't Care About Your Band: What I Learned from Indie Rockers, Trust Funders, Pornographers, Felons,
Faux-Sensitive Hipsters, and Other Guys I've Dated
(Gotham/Penguin, 2010)

Yehuda Koren & Eilat Negev
Literary journalists.
The First Lady of Fleet Street (Ballantine, 2011), A Lover of Unreason: Assia Wevill, Sylvia Plath's Rival
and Ted Hughes' Doomed Love
(DaCapo, 2006)

Ray "Dr. BBQ" Lampe
Food personality and author.
Ribs, Chops, Steaks & Wings (Chronicle, 2010), The NFL Gameday Cookbook (Chronicle, 2008), Dr.
BBQ's Big-Time Barbecue Road Trip!
(St. Martin's Press, 2007)

Daniel Libeskind
World-renowned architect, whose practice extends from building major cultural and commercial
institutions -- including museums and concert halls -- to convention centers, universities, housing, hotels,
shopping centers and residential work.
Breaking Ground: An Immigrant's Journey from Poland to Ground Zero (Riverhead/Penguin, 2004)

James Mauro
Former editor in chief of SPY magazine and executive editor of Cosmopolitan.
Einstein at the World's Fair: Genius, Madness, Murder, and the World of Tomorrow on the Brink of War
(Ballantine, 2010)

Stanley Meisler
Longtime foreign and diplomatic correspondent at the Los Angeles Times.
United Nations: A History (New & Revised Edition, Grove/Atlantic, 2012), The Peace Corps: A History
(Beacon, 2011),
Kofi Annan: A Man of Peace in a World of War (Wiley, 2006)

Ambassador Heraldo Muñoz
Permanent Representative of Chile to the United Nations.
The Dictator's Shadow: Life Under Augusto Pinochet (Basic Books, 2008)

Mark T. Mustian
Attorney, elected official, and author of up-market fiction.
The Gendarme (Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam, 2010)

Robert Pape
University of Chicago political science professor.
Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism (Random House, 2005)

Wade Rubenstein
Attorney and author of literary fiction.
Gullboy (Counterpoint, 2005)

Bradley Ricca
Academic expert on comic books, filmmaker, and author.
Super Boys: Jerry Siegel, Joe Shuster, and the Creation of Superman (St. Martin's Press, 2011)

Lisa Rogak
New York Times bestselling author of biographies and other works.
Haunted Heart: The Life and Times of Stephen King (Thomas Dunne/St. Martin's Press, 2009),
Michelle Obama in Her Own Words (PublicAffairs/Perseus, 2009), Barack Obama in Her Own Words
(PublicAffairs/Perseus, 2009), A Boy Named Shel: The Life and Times of Shel Silverstein (Thomas
Dunne/St. Martin's Press, 2007)

Kerwin Swint
Professor of political science and political analyst.
The King Whisperers: History’s Most Cunning Political Advisors, from the Ancient World to the 21st
Century
(Union Square Press/Sterling, 2010)

Behzad Yaghmaian
International economist and journalist.
Embracing the Infidel: Muslim Migrants on the Journey West (Delacorte/Bantam Dell, 2005)
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