Quite a few members have books out this month, including Claire Tomalin, with The Young H. G. Wells: Changing the World (Penguin Press); Marcia Biederman, with A Mighty Force: Dr. Elizabeth Hayes and Her War for Public Health (Prometheus); James McGrath Morris, with Tony Hillerman: A Life (University of Oklahoma Press); Matteo Bortolini, with A Joyfully Serious Man: The Life of Robert Bellah (Princeton University Press); Alexis Greene, with Emily Mann: Rebel Artist of the American Theater (Applause); Gabrielle Selz, with Light on Fire: The Art and Life of Sam Francis (University of California Press); and Matthew Wilson, with Richard Congreve: Positivist Politics, the Victorian Press, and the British Empire (Palgrave Macmillan).  

Additionally, many members have new paperback releases this month, including David Michaelis, with Eleanor (Simon & Schuster); Andrew Morton, with Meghan and the Unmasking of the Monarchy: A Hollywood Princess (Grand Central Publishing); Peniel E. Joseph, with The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. (Basic Books), William Souder, with Mad at the World: A Life of John Steinbeck (W.W. Norton); and Louis Ray, with Charles H. Thompson on Desegregation, Democracy, and Education: 1953–1963 (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press).  

This month’s “Sold to Publishers” newsmakers are: Peniel E. Joseph, for The Third Reconstruction: America’s Struggle for Racial Justice in the Twenty-first Century (Basic); and Nicole Evelina, for America’s Forgotten Suffragists: Virginia and Francis Minor (Globe Pequot).  

 Additionally, Lance Richardson was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities grant for his work on Peter Matthiessen; John Oller’s Rogues Gallery (Dutton) was named a Publisher’s Weekly pick of the week; Roberta Marshall was interviewed about Carlos Castenada for LAist and has launched a new season of  “The Trickster” podcast; Claire Tomalin was interviewed about Jane Austen for The Austen Connection and her book The Young H. G. Wells was named one of “5 Biographies to Read This Season” by The New York Times; Kitty Kelley published reviews of Graceland, At Last, First Friends, and Believing for the Washington Independent Review of Books; Town & Country listed Debby Applegate’s forthcoming Madam as a “must-read” book for fall; Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina was interviewed about her books for The Austen Connection; Iris Jamahl Dunkle wrote a guest blog post for FF2 Media and also wrote a review of Martha Ackmann’s These Fevered Days for The Colorado Review; Kate Clifford Larson was interviewed by Faithfully;  Patrick Dean was interviewed on the “Historically Thinking” podcast; Jon Meacham was guest speaker for The Economic Club of Southwestern Michigan Speaker Series; Megan Marshall wrote “Remembering Lois Palken Rudnick, a Biographer Who Never Stopped Exploring” for Literary Hub; Anya Jabour wrote “Why We Should Recognize Dr. Katharine Bement Davis Alongside Dr. Alfred Kinsey as a Pioneering Sex Researcher” for Nursing Clio; Patricia Bell-Scott served as consulting producer on the documentary My Name is Pauli Murray, which made its U.S. debut; Kathleen Brady will discuss Ida Tarbell’s The History of the Standard Oil Company on a History Channel podcast and she was featured on the 12-part TCM podcast series about Lucille Ball; Tanya Paperny was interviewed for currentpass; Carl Rollyson interviewed Kate Clifford Larson about Fannie Lou Hamer on his podcast “A Life in Biography”; Adam Henig made the African American Bestseller’s List with his biography Watergate’s Forgotten Hero; David O. Stewart is publishing a historical novel, The New Land; Vladimir Alexandrov’s new biography, To Break Russia’s Chains (Pegasus Books), was excerpted by CrimeReads and the Los Angeles Review of Books.