Keeping tabs on authors in LINKcat: Caleb Carr

 

Source:  South Central Library System LINKcat online catalog

New York Times, 5/24/2024

Mr. Carr was 39 when he published “The Alienist,” an atmospheric detective story about a child psychiatrist — or an alienist, as those who studied the mind were called in the 1890s — who investigates the murders of young male prostitutes by using forensic psychiatry, which was an unorthodox method at the time 

. Mr. Carr had first pitched the book as nonfiction; it wasn’t, but it read that way because of the exhaustive research he did into the period. He rendered the dank horrors of Manhattan’s tenement life, its sadistic gangs and the seedy brothels that were peddling children, as well as the city’s lush hubs of power, like Delmonico’s restaurant. And he peopled his novel with historical figures like Theodore Roosevelt, who was New York’s reforming police commissioner before his years in the White House. Even Jacob Riis had a cameo.

The 50 member libraries of LINKcat

2024

Paul Auster.  (5/9)

Lynne Reid Banks. (4/10)

John Barth.  (4/3)

Shirley Conran.  (5/25)

Daniel C. Dennett.  (4/22)

Anne Edwards.  (2/4)

Lesley Hazleton (5/11)

Cristina Henriquez.  (3/6)

Edward Jay Epstein.  (1/18)

Ellen Gilchrist.  (2/15)

Jonathan Kozol.  (3/18)

M. Scott Momaday.  (2/1)

Alice Munro.  (5/19)

Tom Shales.  (1/21)

Vernor Vinge.  (4/1)

Dan Wakefield, (3/17)

2023

Martin Amis.  (5/31)

Richard Anobile.  (3/18)

Russell Banks.  (1/11)

A. S. Byatt.  (11/18)

Ted Bell.  (2/8)

Carol Higgins Clark.  (7/13)

Natalie Zemon Davis.  (10/27)

Tim Dorsey.  (12/10)

Herbert Gold.  (11/24)

David Harris.  (2/8)

Paul Johnson.  (1/15)

Milan Kundera.  (7/17)

Harold S. Kushner.  (4/30)

Cormac McCarthy.  (6/19)

Kevin Phillips.  (10/19)

Betty Rollin.  (11/26)

Norman Rush.  (4/7)

Mimi Sheraton.  (4/9)

Charles Simic.  (1/16)

Donald Spoto.  (2/18)

D. M. Thomas.  (3/31)

John Underwood.  (5/8)

Fay Weldon.  (2/2)

Bill Zehme.  (4/1)

2022

Roger Angell.  (5/24)

Melissa Bank.  (8/7)

Raymond Briggs.  (8/20)

Thomas Cahill. (11/16)

Philip K. Dick.  (11/20)

Bruce Duffy,  (3/13)

Todd Gitlin.  (2/8)

Rebecca Godfrey.  (11/11)

Ron Goulart.  (2/7)

Doris Grumbach.  (11/10)

Robert Hicks.  (3/8)

Thomas Hoving.  (12/19)

Maureen Howard.  (3/19)

Dominique Lapierre.  (12/11)

Hilary Mantel.  (9/26)

Nancy Mitford.  (4/4)

P. J. O'Rourke.  (2/24)

John J. Osborn Jr.  (11/4)

Julie Powell.  (11/5)

Thomas Pynchon.  (12/17)

Dennis Smith.  (1/27)

Susie Steiner.  (7/27)

Larry Woiwode.  (5/19)

2021

Joan Walsh Anglund.  (4/3)

F. Lee Bailey.  (6/11)

Katherine Barber.  (5/26)

Mary Catherine Bateson.  (1/26)

Rosalind Cartwright.  (3/21)

Kim Chernin.  (1/10)

Beverly Cleary.  (4/8)

Angelo Codevilla.  (10/10)

Christina Crosby.  (1/31)

Geoff Crowther.  (5/17)

Eric Jerome Dickey.  (1/9)

Morrie Dickstein.  (3/31)

Scott Donaldson.  (1/11)

Stephen Dunn.  (6/29)

Lawrence Ferlinghetti.  (2/24)

James R. Flynn.  (1/30)

Larry Flynt.  (2/12)

Lucinda Franks.  (5/11)

Joseph Galloway.  (8/25)

Norman Golb.  (2/22)

Lawrence Graham.  (3/9)

Charles Grodin.  (5/20)

Maria Guarnascheilli, book editor.  (2/18)

James Gunn.  (2/21)

Tony Hendra.  (3/7)

Robert L. Herbert (2/12)

Norman Juster.  (3/16)

Donald Kagan.  (8/20)

Hans Kung.  (4/9)

Lyn Macdonald.  (5/15)

Janet Malcolm.  (6/18)

Peter Manso,  (4/10)

Jason Matthews.  (5/4)

Margaret Maron.  (3/13)

Larry McMurtry.  (4/2)

Ved Mehta.  (1/12)

Robert Middlekauff.  (9/3)

Marie Mongan.  (3/22)

John Naisbitt.  (4/21)

Sharon Kay Penman.  (2/8)

Steven B. Oates.  (9/1)

Robert Quackenbush.  (7/7)

Deborah Rhode.  (1/28)

James Ridgeway.  (2/16)

Naomi Rosenblum  (3/6)

Donald Rumsfeld.  (7/6)

Charles Saunders.  (2/4)

David Swensen.  (5/13)

Bryan Sykes.  (1/14)

Athan Theoharis.  (6/14/)

Ed Ward.  (5/16)

Michael Thomas.  (8/19)

Steven Weinberg.  (8/5)

Adam Zagajewski.  (3/27)

2020

Patricia Bosworth.  (4/6)

Ben Bova.  (12/17)

Mary Higgins Clark.  (2/4)

Clive Cussler.  (2/29)

Betty Dodson  (11/11)

David Graeber.  (9/6)

Shirley Ann Grau.  (8/11)

Pete Hamill.  (8/6)

Shere Hite. (9/13)

A, E, Hotchner.  (2/18)

Roger Kahn.  (2/15)

Randall Kenan.  (9/29)

John Le Carre. (12/23/2020)

Johanna Lindsey.  (1/15)

Barry Lopez.  (12/29)

Alison Lurie.  (12/7)

Sylvia Jukes Morris.  (1/20)

Charlers Portis.  (2/19)

Julia Reed.  (9/8)

John Rothchild.  (1/22)

Gail Sheehy.  (9/3)

George Steiner.  (2/6)

Jill Paton Walsh.  (11/29)

Charles Webb.  (6/30)

Elizabeth Wurtzel.  (1/11)

2019

Warren Adler.  (4/23)

Kate Braverman.  (10/28)

Stephen Dixon.  (11/12)

Ernest J. Gaines.  (11/8)

Dan Jenkins.  (3/10)

Judith Krantz.  (6/27)

Paule Marshall.  (8/27)

Robert K. Massie.  (12/4)

Martin Mayer.  (8/3)

Wright Morris.  (7/25)

Toni Morrison.  (8/12)

Anthony Price.  (6/17)

James I. Robertson.  (11/20)

Anne Rivers Siddons.  (9/19)

John Simon.  (12/1)

Sol Stein.  (9/30)

Brad Watson.  (8/2)

Lonnie Wheeler.  (7/15)

Herman Wouk.  (5/20)

Nearly forgotten "sociological megahits" of 1970.  (6/18)

2018

Neal Thompson.  (6/17)

Barbara Kafka.  (6/8)

Weeding or historical sanitization at LINKcat libraries?  (6/2)

2017

Aline Countess of Romanones.  (12/17)

Kit Reed.  (10/1)

Carol J. Adams shares feminist classics from her personal library.  (9/8)

2016

E. M. Nathanson.  (4/10)

2015

Gunter Grass (1927-2015).  (4/15)

2014

Thomas Berger  (1924-2014).  (7/23)

Peter Matthiessen (1927-2014)  (4/8)

2013

Barbara Branden.  (12/26)