Meet Six Published Authors on Campus

It was 2009, and Music Director Dr. Rufus Jones was a professor at Georgetown University and paving his career as an orchestral conductor and educator. He was also deep in the research process of his first biography: that of Dean Dixon, the first black American to lead the New York Philharmonic and NBC Symphony orchestras in 1941. Jones first discovered Dixon twenty years earlier in an article publish...

Marking the literary debut of author and English teacher Elliot Reed back in 2018 was his novel A Key to Treehouse Living. An unconventional work to say the least, and written in the format of a glossary-style list, it seeks to tell the story of a young boy who cares to live life by his own set of rules, rather than that of society’s. “This book is conceived as an encyclopedia that would comprehensively be...

In September 2019, senior Isabel Cuellar accomplished something that is often a lifelong goal as a junior in high school: writing and publishing her first novel. Kindling a passion for reading and writing throughout her life, Cuellar turned her ideas into a reality with Cities of Sand: The Artist and the Crown, a fantasy-genre novel she wrote largely during Intensive Writing Seminar, an Early-Bird course popular a...

The synopsis of history teacher Dr. Christopher Calvo’s book is essentially a history of economic thought between the years 1776 and 1861, from the American Independence to the American Civil War. It describes what American economic thinkers, public intellectuals, and participants in economic discourse said about the American economy's transition into a full-fledged capitalist economy. The book ch...

Junior Lauren Bartel wrote her short story Silver Limbs after viewing an inspirational piece of art at the Wynwood Walls in Miami. It was one of several works that Bartel has published in literary collections, including Writer’s Digest, Hypernova Lit, The Short Story Show podcast, Reflections school literary magazine, and more. Bartel also completed the Early-Bird course Intensive Writing Seminar, and throughout her experiences as a writer has developed a particular style of inc...

Many know Coach Earl Sims as the head coach of our varsity football team, but many may not know about his creative side as a published poet. Sims recently unveiled his poetry in a collection called “Seasons.” “My book is a compilation of several years of emotions," he said. Sims has been writing down thoughts for many years, without knowing that he was going to end up making a book. Sims explains why he wri...