Wisconsin Authors

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About Wisconsin Authors

Wisconsin Writers' Jade Ring Anthology, 808.8 WIS

Famous Wisconsin Authors, 810.8 Rob

Wisconsin Literary Travel Guide, 917.7504 WIS

Fiction

Allyson K. Abbott, Stoughton (Also known under the pen name of Beth Amos) Murder on the Rocks (Mack’s Bar Series, #1) M ABBOTT (pb)

Beth Amos, Stoughton F AMOS

• Cold White Fury
• Eyes of Night
• Second Sight
• The Vicarious Liver

Jerold “Jerry” Apps, Wisconsin F Apps

• Blue Shadows Farm
• Cranberry Red
• Tamarack River Ghost

A. Manette Ansay, Port Washington & Madison F ANSAY

• Blue Water
• Good Things I Wish You
• Vinegar Hill

Carol Ryrie Brink, Menomonie Strangers in the Forest F BRINK

Anthony Bukoski, Superior Time Between the Trains F BUKOSKI

Nickolas Butler,  Eau Claire F BUTLER Nickolas

• Beneath the Bonfire
• The Hearts of Men
• Little Faith
• Shotgun Lovesongs

Jennifer Chiaverini, Madison F CHIAVERINI

• The Quilter’s Apprentice*  
• Christmas Bells
• Enchantress of Numbers
• Fates and Traitors
• Mrs. Grant and Madame Jule
• Mrs. Lincoln’s Dressmaker
• Mrs. Lincoln’s Rival
• The Spymistress

Marshall Cook, Madison Murder Over Easy* F Cook

Kathleen Ernst, Middleton Old World Murder* M Ernst

Victoria Houston, Rhinelander Dead Angler * F Houston

Shelley Glodowski, Oregon M Glodowski

• Murder on a Caribbean Note
• Murder on an Egyptian Note
• Murder on a Philosophical Note
• Murder on the Wrong Note

Lesley Kagen, Milwaukee Good Graces F Kagen

Lorrie Moore, Madison F MOORE

• Bark: Stories
• Birds of America: Stories
• Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?

Michael Perry, New Auburn The Jesus Cow F PERRY

Sara Rath, Manawa F RATH

• Star Lake Saloon and Housekeeping Cottages
• The Waters of Star Lake

David Rhodes, Wonewoc F RHODES

• Driftless
• Jewelweed

Patrick Rothfuss, Madison Name of the Wind* FAN ROTHFUSS

Annelise Ryan, Stoughton (Also known under the pen name of Beth Amos) M RYAN

• Working Stiff*
• Needled to Death*

Peter Straub, Milwaukee F STRAUB

• The Talisman*
• Mystery*
• Houses without Doors
• In the Night Room

Larry Watson, Milwaukee F WATSON

• American Boy
• As Good As Gone
• Orchard
• Let Him Go

Lori Wick, Mazomanie F WICK

• Cassidy*
• Whatever Tomorrow Brings*
• The Proposal*
• Where the Wild Rose Blooms*
• Moonlight on the Millpond*
• Every Little Thing About You*
• Beyond the Picket Fence
• Every Storm
• Pretense
• The Princess
• White Chocolate Moments

Thornton Wilder, Madison The Bridge of San Luis Rey F WILDER

Non-Fiction

Stephen Ambrose, Whitewater

• Nothing Like It In The World, 385 AMB
• Citizen Soldiers, 940.54 AMB
• The Victors, 940.54 AMB
• The Wild Blue, 940.54 AMB
• Band of Brothers, 940.54 AMB
• To America, 973 AMB
• Eisenhower, 973.921 EISENHOWER

A. Manette Ansay, Port Washington & Madison Limbo, 813.54 Ans

Jerold “Jerry” Apps, Wisconsin

• Living a Country Year, 307.72 APP
• The Civilian Conservation Corps in Wisconsin, 333.7 APP
• Breweries of Wisconsin, 338.7 APP
• One-Room Country Schools, 371.19 APP
• Every Farm Tells a Story, 630.9775 APP
• My First Tractor, 631.372 APP
• Garden Wisdom, 635 APP
• Wisconsin Agriculture, 635.09 APP
• Horse-Drawn Days, 636.15 APP
• Old Farm Country Cookbook, 641.597 APP
• Mills of Wisconsin and the Midwest, 664.72 APP
• Barns of Wisconsin, 728.92 APP
• Ringlingville USA, 791.3 APP
• The Land Still Lives, 920 APP
• Limping Through Life, 921 APPS
• Whispers and Shadows, 921 APPS
• Rural Wisdom, 977 APP
• Mills of Wisconsin and the Midwest, 977.5 APP
• The Quiet Season, 977.5 APPS
• When Chores Were Done, 977.598 APP

Deborah Blum, Milwaukee

• Love at Goon Park, 150.92 BLU
• The Poisoner’s Handbook, 614.13 BLU
• The Poison Squad, 363.19 BLU

James Campbell, Lodi

• Braving It, 917.98 CAM
• The Final Frontiersman, 921 Korth
• The Ghost Mountain Boys, 940.5426 CAM

Jordan Ellenberg, Madison How Not To Be Wrong, 510 ELL

John Gurda, Milwaukee Making of Milwaukee, 977.595 GURDA

John Hildebrand, Eau Claire

• The Heart of Things,  977 HIL
• Mapping the Farm,  977.6 HIL

John Koethe, Milwaukee The Late Wisconsin Spring,  811 Koe

Ellen Kort, Appleton

• Wisconsin Quilts, 746.46 KORT
• Letters from McCarty’s Farm, 811 KOR
• Notes From a Small Island, 811 KOR

Aldo Leopold, Madison

• Round River, 508.7 Leo
• A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There, 508.73 LEO
• A Sand County Almanac: With Essays on  Conversation, Oversize 508.73 LEO
• The River of the Mother of God and Other Essays, 333.9516 LEO
• For the Health of the Land, 333.72 LEO

Ben Logan, Seneca Christmas Remembered, 394.266 LOG

David Maraniss, Madison

• They March into Sunlight, 959.704 MAR
• Barack Obama, 973.932 MAR
• Once a Great City, 977.434

John Muir, Montello The Story of My Boyhood & Youth, 921 MUI

Lorine Niedecker, Fort Atkinson and Blackhawk Island Collected Works, 811.54 NIE

Michael Perry, New Auburn

• Truck, 629.223 PER
• Roughneck Grace, 814.6 PER
• Off Main Street, 973.92 PER
• Coop, 977.5 PER
• Danger, Man Working, 977.5 PER
• From the Top, 977.5 PER
• Montaigne in Barn Boots, 977.5 PER
• Visiting Tom, 977.5 PER
• Population 485, 977.544 PER

Sara Rath, Manawa The Complete Pig, 636.4 RAT

Robert Wells, Milwaukee Fire at Peshtigo, 977.5 WEL

Laura Ingalls Wilder, Pepin

• A Little House Sampler, 813.52 WIL
• Pioneer Girl, 921 WILDER