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ontherecordthescoopAlumni authorsFighter Pilot: The World War II Career of AlexVraciu is the latest book by Indiana authorand historian Ray E. Boomhower, BA’82,MA’95. Vraciu graduated from DePauwUniversity and joined the U.S. Navy as a pilotbefore the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.For four months in 1944, he was the leadingNavy ace, shooting down 19 enemy planes inthe air and 21 on the ground. He was shot down over a Japaneseairfield later that year but rescued by U.S. Army guerillas. Publishedby the Indiana Historical Society Press, the biography is suitablefor young readers. Boomhower recently was named one of threeregional finalists for the 2010 Eugene and Marilyn Glick IndianaAuthors Award. He is senior editor of the Indiana Historical Society’squarterly history magazine Traces of Indiana and MidwesternHistory. For more information, go to rayboomhower.net/.Papa@Home is the third novel by Reuters newseditor Elke Ahlswede, MA’95. It’s the sequelto Mama.com (2006) and Mum@Home (2007).Papa@Home (Bastei Lübbe, 2010) is a comedyabout a German family that moves to Chicagoafter the mom, Katharina, lands her dream PRjob. The dad, Tobias, takes two years’ leaveto stay home with the kids. But the dreamunravels when one of Katharina’s star clients disappears and theneighborhood women pay a little too much attention to the househusbandfrom Germany.Ahlswede says that although she and her husband, MichaelKlasen, lived in Chicago for two years in the late 1990s, the book isnot autobiographical. The two met in 1991 as Fulbright scholars atIU, where Klasen studied in the Department of Physics. He is now aprofessor of physics at the University of Grenoble, France. Ahlswedetelecommutes to the Reuters Berlin office, covering the capital marketsin New York and Asia. She started with Reuters in 1996 as anews editor, then became a reporter on the high tech beat in 1999.“The exhausting hours, yet exhilarating pace of writing aboutMicrosoft, Yahoo and Bertelsmann (Random House) for more thantwo years actually led me to book writing — nonfiction at first,”she wrote in an e-mail. “During the dot-com era, I had a breakfrom covering short-lived start-ups, IPOs, millionaire 25-years-oldsand the Silicon Valley by writing my first guide for young journalists,published in 2002. In writing it, I also drew on some experienceat the IU School of Journalism.” An updated edition of the guide,“Praktikum!” was published in July by UVK Press.Ahlswede said she and Klasen have fond memories of their timein Bloomington and hope to visit again one day with their threechildren.The death of his orange and white cat, Theo,after 16 years as a member of the family gotDave Krider, BA’61, thinking about what mighthappen if humans and their pets reunited inheaven. The result is Do Animals Go to Heaven?(PublishAmerica, 2009), a collection of imaginaryconversations between owners and pets whenthey meet in the hereafter. Krider, a native ofElkhart, Ind., has been a sports writer for 48 years. He is a seniorwriter at MaxPreps.com, a CBS-owned affiliate devoted to high schoolsports. In 1997 Krider became the first newspaper reporter to benamed to the National High School Hall of Fame and the first highschool writer in the U.S. Basketball Writers Hall of Fame.Swallow Press, a division of Ohio University Press,has published Thirsty by Kristin Bair O’Keeffe,BA’88. The author’s first work of fiction, Thirstyis the story of a young Croatian woman whoescapes to America in the late 19th century, onlyto find herself stuck in an abusive marriage ina forbidding steel town. O’Keeffe received anMFA in creative writing from Columbia CollegeChicago. Her work has appeared in a variety of publications, includingPoets and Writers Magazine, The Baltimore Review, and TheGettysburg Review. O’Keeffe lives in Shanghai, China.Paul M. Lester, PhD’89, is the author of OnFloods and Photo Ops: How Herbert Hooverand George W. Bush Exploited Catastrophes,published by the University Press of Mississippi.The book traces the similarities between the twopresidents and how both used the media to promotetheir ideas, programs and personal careers.By focusing on two “photo opportunities” —one during the Mississippi Rivers flood of 1927and the other in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005 — Lesterpresents a broader discussion of political photography, illuminating theevolution of the genre. A professor of communications at CaliforniaState University, Lester is the author of Visual Communication: Imageswith Messages and Photojournalism: An Ethical Approach.Chimeric Machines, the first poetry collection byLucy A. Snyder, MA’95, was published in March2009 by CGP and won the Bram Stoker Awardfor Superior Achievement in Poetry. Her novel,Spellbent, the first in a series of urban fantasies,was published in December 2009 by Del Rey, adivision of Random House. The book was selectedfor the 2009 Locus Recommended Reading List.More information about Snyder’s publications can be found at herwebsite, www.lucysnyder.com. She lives in Worthington, Ohio, withher husband and occasional co-author, Gary A. Braunbeck.< 44 < 44 > > newswire / / fall 2010spring fall 2009 2010/ / newswire < 44 >