This list was assembled by former reference librarian Hilary Caws-Elwitt. If you have authors, titles, or biographical information to add, please contact us (email address at the bottom of every page).

Adams, Heather L. (resident of Dimock in 2000s)

• Hollowbush Mystery Players: it's been a long time coming (AuthorHouse, 2008)

Adleman, Debra (resident of Montrose from 1980s to present; Historical Society assistant curator for many years)

• Waiting for the Lord (Picton Press, 1997)

Ainey, Helen (1914-2000; lifelong resident of Montrose; "Ambassador of Good Will to the World")

• The poems of Helen Ainey of Montrose, Pennsylvania (Norma & Ed, 1997)

Anderson, Teresa (resided in Starrucca from the mid-1990s until her death in 2006)

• Refusing despair: selected poems & journal writings (West End Press/Street Sweeper Press, 2008)

Armstrong, Alison (resident of Clifford, 2002-2006)

• The Joyce of cooking : food & drink from James Joyce's Dublin (Station Hill Press, 1986)

Ray A. Barnard (1961-?; son-in-law of librarian Marion Baker)

• Magic casements (poems; self-published, 1980)

Belles, Anne Himko (lifelong resident of Montrose)

• Legacy (self-published, 1991; poetry)

Benedict, H. B. (Haskell Byron), Rev. (1858-1912; pastor at Hampton Street Methodist Episcopal Church in Scranton in 1890)

• Religious & other poems (Independent Republican, 19??)

Berehsohn, Paulus (resident of Clifford, 1968-1975)

• Finding one's way with clay (ceramic hand-building; Simon & Shuster, 1972)

Blackman, Emily C. (Emily Clarissa; 1826-1907; lifelong resident of Montrose)

• History of Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania (Claxton, Remsen, & Haffelfinger; 1873)

Blomain, Karen (former resident of Union Dale; poet, novelist, writing professor) www.karenblomain.com

• A Trick of Light (Toby Press, 2000)

Bodnar, John (grew up in Forest City; professor of history at U of Indiana Bloomington)

• Blue-Collar Hollywood: Liberalism, Democracy, and Working People in American Film (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003)
• Bonds of Affection: Americans Define their Patriotism (Princeton University Press, 1996)
• The "Good War" in American Memory (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010)
• Lives of their Own: Poles, Blacks and Italians in Pittsburgh, 1900-1950 (co-author; University of Illinois Press, 1982)
• Remaking America: Public Memory, Commemoration, and Patriotism in the Twentieth Century (Princeton University Press, 1992)
• The Transplanted: A History of Immigrants in Urban America (Indiana University Press, 1985)
• Worker's World: Kinship, Community, and Protest in an Industrial Society (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982)

Bonnice, Sherry (1956-; resident of Montrose)

• Children's folklore (Mason Crest, 2003)
• Christmas and Santa Claus folklore (Mason Crest, 2003)
• Computer programmer (Mason Crest, 2003)
• Drug therapy and adjustment disorders (Mason Crest, 2007)
• Drug therapy and cognitive disorders (Mason Crest, 2007)
• Drug therapy and premenstrual disorders (Mason Crest, 2007)
• Financial adviser (Mason Crest, 2003)
• Folk arts & crafts (Mason Crest, 2002)
• Folk dance (Mason Crest, 2002)
• Folk fashion (Mason Crest, 2002)
• The hidden child: youth with autism (Mason Crest, 2004)
• Journalist (Mason Crest, 2003)
• Spring serenade: a harmony of wool and cotton applique projects (Chitra, 2002)

Brush, Frederic (1871-1961; physician and poet; resident of Susquehanna who practiced in Great Bend)

• The Alleghenians (Blackshaw Press, 1940)
• Crooked river (David McKay, 1934)
• Hill doctor: tells in story and ballads, tales of the Appalachians (Susquehanna University Press, 1956)
• The hillman (David McKay, 1935)
• The long hills (Roland Swain, 1932)
• Seven round a mountain (Pennsylvania Book Service, 1941; children's book)
• Songs of the Susquehanna (also as Susquehanna) (Mosher, 1914, 1920)
• Walk the long years: through Pennsylvania, with converse and rumination by the way (Susquehanna University Press, 1946)

Buck, Tom (1916-? ; the Buck family summered in Montrose for many years)

• But, Daddy!: the hilarious true story of how Pat and Tom Buck raised 11 children--and survived (William Morrow and Company, 1967)

Buck, Rinker (1950-  ; the Buck family summered in Montrose for many years)

• Flight of passage (Hyperion, 1997)

Bugbee, Louise Aldrich (1914-2008; born in Brooklyn, later moved to Martha's Vineyard; wrote a newspaper column for the Vineyard Gazette which also ran in the Montrose Independent and the Press-Sun Bulletin)

• Confessions of a difficult dame (Gadfly Press, 1990)
• There is an island that owns me (Martha's Vineyard Printing Co., c. 1967)

Campbell, George (resident of New Milford)

• primary author of A history of New Milford (New Milford Township and Borough Centennial Committee, 1959)
• The Pratt Memorial Library: its origin, continual operation and glorious centennial celebration, 1903-2003, with a history of the Pratt family in New Milford (?, 2003?)

Carlson, Paul R. (native of Brooklyn, pastor of Silver Lake Presbyterian Church)

• Christianity After Auschwitz (Xlibris, 2000)

Caws-Elwitt, Jonathan (resident of Friendsville)

• The can of yams (one-act farce, premiered in Montrose in 2002; Baker's Plays, 2006)

Comstock, Mary Edgar (poet; 1897-1945; resided in Montrose at the end of her life, possibly earlier? but born in New York City)

• Flickering candlelight (Dorrance, 1926)
• A penny a dream (H. Harrison, 1930)

Criddle, Russell (1916- ?; born and grew up in Susquehanna)

• Love is not blind (Norton, 1953; memoir of blindness; includes life in Susquehanna and the countryside (Bear Swamp))

Cross, K. Allen (Keith Allen; resident of Great Bend)

• Flight of the Hellcat (Dragonfly Publishing, 2004)

Crossman, G. Fay (resident of Pleasant Mount)

• Words of love (self-published, ?; poetry)

Cruickshank, Helen Gere (1902-1994; native of Susquehanna County; married Allan Cruickshank; the couple were well-known birders and authors of bird books)

• Bird islands down east (Macmillan, 1941)
• John & William Bartram's America: selections from the writings of the Philadelphia naturalists (ed.; Devin-Adair Company, 1957)
• Wonders of the Bird World (Dodd, Mead, 1956)
• ...and many more

Dabulas, Marion (resident of Susquehanna)

• Grandmother, Sir! (Xlibris, 2001)
• Sadie's: a historical novel

Davis, Judy Ann (born and raised near Harford)

• fRed Fox Woman (novel; Black Rose Writing, 2004)

DeSample, Alexandra (Forest City resident?)

• feelings (poetry; The Tutorial, Montrose, 2002)

Dressler, Frank (resident of Gibson)

• The Better Business Bureau murders (Writers Club Press, 2000)
• The Dracula murders : a Kate Flaherty/Ben Pierce mystery (Writers Club Press, 2002)
• The Endless Mountains murders (iUniverse, 2003)
• The Harford fatwa & chainsaw murders : a Kate Flaherty/Ben Pierce mystery ( iUniverse, 2005)
• The Montrose fire 'murder' : a Kate Flaherty/Ben Pierce mystery (iUniverse, 2006)
• Murder most foul: the trials and tribulations of the Susquehanna County Birders group: a Kate Flaherty/Ben Pierce mystery (iUniverse, 2008)
• The North Branch murders : a Kate Flaherty/Ben Pierce mystery (iUniverse, 2004)

Ely, Luther Samuel (1907-1998; resident of New Milford, summered on Ely Lake)

• World War II experiences of Luther Samuel Ely, Jr. (Martha Girton, 2008)

Famolari, Nancy (resident of Montrose)

• The Lake House (CreateSpace, 2010)
• Summer's story (Red Rose Publishing, 2008)
• Unwelcome guest at Fair Hill Farm (CreateSpace, 2009)

Feece, Dennis (resident of Montrose)

• Journal of a Little Soul (novel; PublishAmerica, 2009)

Frick, Doreen (former resident of Montrose)

• Hodgepodge logic: one woman's journal through marriage, moves and motherhood (self-published, 1999)

Frisbie, Tom (resident of Hallstead)

• She Said it Was All a Lie (Outskirts Press, 2007)

Gardner, John (1933-1982; famous novelist and academic; lived in Susquehanna from 1978 until his death in a motorcycle accident near his home)

• Mickelsson's Ghosts (Knopf, 1982; novel is set in Susquehanna)
• ...and many more

Gary, Harold G. (lifetime resident of Montrose)

• Letters from Dan (self-published, 2010; letters and other documents pertaining to the life of Captain Dana E. Gary, killed in action during WW II)

Gumaer, Emily Gerster (?)

• Poetry of Emily Gerster Gumaer (?, 1984)

Granick, Andy (student at Mountain View High School, graduated 2002)

• Diabetic Desserts and Drinks (?, 2002; part of four-year graduation project)

Gray, Philip (1906-1978; married Theodora Cope Stanwell-Fletcher, see below)

• For Teddy: poems grave and merry (Northlight Studio Press, 1980)
• Of time and Vermont (Vantage Press, 1975)
• The only world we have (Dorrance, 1974; nature poems, some set at Woodburne)

Haertsch, Melissa Whalen (poet; resident of Dimock)

• Set of four limited edition concertina books with photographer Michael Poster: Civil War Album (archival photographs from the Library of Congress), Fruiting Body (trees), Hop On Hop Off (urban transportation), and Tangle (gardens) (2008)

Herlihy, James Leo (1927-1993; lived near Hop Bottom in the 1970s)

• All fall down (Dutton, 1960)
• Midnight cowboy (Simon & Shuster, 1965)
• Season of the witch (Simon & Shuster, 1971)

Higgins, Joanna (1945- ; former resident of Little Meadows and professor at Binghamton University)

• The importance of high places : stories and a novella (Milkweed Editions, 1992)
• Quest for the golden flower (Bell Offset, 1987)
• A soldier's book (Permanent Press, 1998; novel)

Hutchison, Ruth (1898-?)

• Every day's a holiday (with Ruth Adams; Harper, 1951)

Janoski, Liz (resident of Montrose)

• Mountain Song (Royal Fireworks, 2005)
• What's Wrong With Eddie? (Royal Fireworks, 1995)

Jeffers, Betsey Oakley (1836 - ?; farmed in Harford)

• A Book of Poems (Hazlett-Harrison Co., 1915)

Jones, Sarah (1828-1887; born & lived in Harford; schoolteacher)

• Poems of Sarah Jones (Farm and Factory Print, 1900)

Karmazin, Margaret (resident of Susquehanna; painter, poet, and writer)

• Bones (Writers Club Press, 2001)
• Cosmic Women (Piper's Ash Limited, 200?)
• Replacing Fiona (eTreasures, 2007)

Kisor, Henry (born & raised in the Hallstead area; nationally-known journalist)

• Flight of the Gin Fizz: midlife at 4,500 feet (BasicBooks, 1997)
• Season's revenge (Forge, 2003)
• What's that pig outdoors?: a memoir of deafness (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1990)
• Zephyr: tracking a dream across America (Times Books, 1994)

Knapp, John II (summer? resident of Montrose) www.johnknapp2.com

• Earth is not alone (Ephemeron Press, 2009)
• A pillar of pepper, and other Bible nursery rhymes (Chariot Books, 1982)

Lain, T.H. (pseudonym for Edward T. Stark; grew up in Montrose)

• City of fire (Wizards of the Coast, 2002; Dungeons and Dragons novel)

Lee, Alice Louise (1868-?; resident of Brooklyn)

• Cap'n Joe's sister (Stokes, 1912)
• A freshman co-ed (The Penn Publishing Company, 1914)
• A junior co-ed (The Penn Publishing Company, 1912)
• A senior co-ed (The Penn Publishing Company, 1913)
• A sophomore co-ed (The Penn Publishing Company, 1911)
• Stories in Stockman Stories (1913) and in the Youth's Companion magazine

Maas, Eleanor A. (1919-2008; long-time resident of New Milford)

• Forestry Pioneer: The Life of Joseph Trimble Rothrock (Pennsylvania Forestry Association, 2003)

Matteson, Rosemary (lifelong resident of Montrose)

• Nothing gold can stay (Windsor House, 1998)
• Tommy's circle of friends at Meadowview Farm (Windsor House, 2001)

May, Jim (long-time summer resident at Silver Lake)

• Hypothesis (Tate Publishing, 2010)

Medynski, John (lived in Rush from 1990s-2000s)

• So close to eternity: in the beginning... (memoir; PublishAmerica, 2009)

Merrell, Margaret H. (rector in Susquehanna County during the 80s and 90s)

• A History of St. Paul's Parish (1956)

Mess, Nancy Lynn (grew up in Lanesboro, and daughter of Bill Mess, who, for 49 years, had his service station in Great Bend)

• Men, wind and courage: a pioneer aviation story of O.E. Williams and his sssociates (William Martin Press, 2009)

Meunier, Christiane (resident of Montrose; founded Chitra Publications, publishers of quilting magazines, books, and briefly cooking magazines as well)

• Big 'n Easy Mini Quilts (Chitra, 1998)

Millis, David B. (resident of Choconut Twp)

• Rock Collecting in New York (Rock Doc, 1998)

Mitchell, Barbara J (resident of Hallstead)

• O Fairest Monticello (Freedom Acres Publishing Company, 2000; a history of Monticello College and Preparatory School in Alton, IL)

Morgan, Mark (resident of New Milford?)

• Crumbled thoughts: excerpts from the mind (PublishAmerica, 2006)

Oakley, Helen Colwell (resident of New Milford)

• Country Living (Vantage Press, 1978)
• entry in Remember When (ed. Nancy J. Skarmeas, Ideals Publishing, 1991)

Oakley, Ken (resident of ?)

• Jehile: the blind fiddler from Lawton, Pennsylvania (K&C, 2003)

Obelenus, John S. (resident of Forest City during the 20th century)

• Highlights of Forest City Borough History (Forest City News, 1938)

O'Byrnes (children of Christopher O'Byrne of Friendsville)

• Idyls of Lakeside - (The Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, 1909; dedicated to Laurel Hill Academy (Susquehanna))

Parson, Kirk (pseudonym of Luman E. Sanford, Methodist pastor in Thompson & Montrose; c. 1863 - 1920s?)

• A fast game - (novel about 1906 anthracite miner suspension in Northeastern Pennsylvania; Roxburgh, 1910)
• On the Mountain Division - (novel about a railroad conductor; Eaton & Mains, Jennings & Pye; 1903)

Perry-Miller, Mitzi (resident of Montrose)

• Clean plates: cooking for young children (Scribner, 1964)

Plotkin, Susan L. (spent time near Susquehanna?)

• The Paris Metro : a Ticket to French History (Xlibris, 2000)

Quackenbush, Jan (resident of Montrose)

• The Clover patch : a poetry magazine (edited by Virginia & Jan Quackenbush during the 1970s)
• "Moon to Shore: John Gardner and the Laurel Street Theater" in "The Literary Legacy of John Gardner" issue of MSS/New Myths (Binghamton University Foundation, 1995)
• "Stone Eggs" in Between the Leaves: A Gathering of Writings by Booksellers (Barnes & Noble, 1998)

Rasbeck, Ashley (resident of Forest City)

• Book of poems (self-published, 2010)

Rehm, George (resided in South Harford)

• Twelve cows, and we're in clover: the story of a man who bought a farm (Morrow, 1951)
• Requiem for twelve cows (Morrow, 1962)

Remakus, Bernard Leo (1948- ; doctor, resident of Hallstead)

• Cassidy's solution (Northwest Publishing, 1995)
• The malpractice epidemic: a layman's guide to medical malpractice (Ashley Books, 1990)
• Medicine from the heart (Writers Club Press, 2002)

Reynolds, John (resident of New Milford)

• Out-of-the-Way Places: Green Peas Don't Make Good Soup! (with Wade Swink; iUniverse, 2008)

Richards, M.C. (resident of Clifford, 1972-1985; poet, potter, essayist, translator, painter; taught at Black Mountain College)

• Centering in pottery, poetry and the person (Weslyan University Press, 1964)
• The crossing point; selected talks and writings (Weslyan University Press, 1973)
• Toward wholeness: Rudolf Steiner education in America (Weslyan University Press, 1980)

Rifle, Shirley (resident of Montrose)

• magazine articles

Rockwell Family (Sally, Warren, David, Karl) ( residents of Brackney)

• Moments foreign : a memoir of an expatriate family (Sally Rockwell, 2004)

Sarazen, Patricia (resident of Susquehanna through 90s and 00s; married name Patricia Laughlin)

• Poet, published in Smile, Poets at Work, Simply Words, and Bell's Letters Poet.

Schroeder, Heather Lee (resident of Brackney, 2009 -)

• A Reader's Guide to Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis (Enslow, 2010)

Sherman, Lucy (resident of Susquehanna)

• Laying Foundations: a memoir: a year building a life while rebuilding a farmhouse (1stBook Library, 2001)
• Uncommon Appetites: Personal Essays (Madison Press, 2003)

Shelton, Angela (resident of Montrose)

• The Adventures of Tilda Pinkerton (Quiet Owl Books, 2012)
• Be Your Own Hero Warrior Workbook: for survivors, warriors, advocates, loved ones and supporters ready to move past pain and suffering and reclaim joy and happiness (CreateSpace, 2011)
• Finding Angela Shelton (Meredith Books, 2008)
• Finding Angela Shelton, recovered: a true story of triumph after abuse, neglect and violence (CreateSpace, 2010)

Skinner, B.F. (Burrhus Frederic, 1904-1990; famous psychologist, born & raised in Susquehanna)

• Particulars of My Life (Knopf, 1976; biography, discusses Susquehanna)
• The shaping of a behaviorist: part two of an autobiography (Knopf, 1979)

Slick, Bernadette (resident of Forest City)

• A century in America: the Slick family history (1992)
• A century in America: area coal mining saga
• Grandma collects stones (Blue Stone Publishing, 2006)
• Grandma reflects on life (Blue Stone Publishing, 2006)
• Weeding carrots: lost art of the small farm

Smith, Dave (1942-; Virginia poet who lived in Montrose briefly) wiredforbooks.org/davesmith/

• In the House of the Judge (Harper, 1983; poetry) Part IV contains poems about living in Montrose. "Near the Underground Railroad," "Your Christmas Present" (about Jayne's Farm), the title poem, "Walking in the Endless Mountains," and "Night-Walk, Montrose, Pennsylvania" (in memory of John Gardner) all contain local references. The dedication reads: "This book is dedicated to Sue Smith, who made it possible for me to live in her father's house in Montrose, Pennsylvania."

Smolowe, Jill (summers in Thompson; journalist and writer)

• An empty lap : one couple's journey to parenthood (Pocket, 1997)

Souder, Larry (resident of Montrose, general manager of WPEL)

• Miracles: The Story of WPEL and WPGM (Montrose Broadcasting Corporation, 1973)

Souder, Patricia (resident of Montrose)

• Alex Leonovich : a heart for the soul of Russia : one man's quest to reach his people for Christ (Horizon, 1999)
• Each for the other...both for God : life sketches of Doug & Natalie Roe (Montrose Broadcasting Corp., 1978)
• People Like Us: Dialogues in Two Voices Featuring Men and Women of the Bible co-author, with Jana Carman (Lillenas, 1997; drama)

Southworth, Eleanor E. (?)

• Poems (Fairview Press, 1957)

Spencer, Mary Cook (resident of New Milford?)

• Homey Poems by a Home Lover (Walter R. Mosher, New Milford, 1949)

Stanwell-Fletcher, Theodora C. (Theodora Cope/Theodora Gray) (1906-2000)

• Driftwood Valley (Little, Brown, 1946; non-fiction) The author's diary of two years in Driftwood Valley, British Columbia, collecting flora and fauna for the British Columbia Provincial Museum at Victoria.
• The Tundra World (Little, Brown, 1952; non-fiction)

Staples, Suzanne Fisher (resident of Nicholson) www.suzannefisherstaples.com

• Dangerous skies (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1996)
• The green dog (Farrar, Straus and Giroux,  2003)
• Haveli (Laurel Leaf, 1993)
• The house of djinn (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008)
• Shabanu: daughter of the wind (Laurel Leaf, 1989)
• Shiva's fire (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000)
• Under the persimmmon tree (Square Fish, 2008)

Stocker, Rhamanthus Menville (1848 - ?)

• Centennial history of Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania (R.T. Peck, 1887)

Stone, Curtis C. (1923- ; resident of Brooklyn; a distance runner who competed in the 1948, 1952, and 1956 Olympics)

• A History of Brooklyn Pennsylvania, 1787-2005 (with Margaret L. Stone; Montrose Publishing, 2005)

Summers, E.W (pseudonym of a person whose family summered near Hallstead)

• This never happened: a novel (Random House, 1998)

Supree, Burton (resident of Clifford, 1980-1992; dance editor for the Village Voice)

• Bear's heart: scenes from the life of a Cheyenne artist of one hundred years ago with picture by himself (with Ann Ross; Lippincott, 1977)
• Harlequin and the Gift of Many Colors (with Remy Charlip; Parents' Magazine Press, 1973)

Taylor, Maurice D.(resident of Montrose)

• Easy steps to the band (series of music instructional books published starting in the 1930s, and still in print today)

Thomas, Maud M.(resident of Kingsley?)

• Black Diamonds (Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1941)

Torrey, R. A. (1856-1928; Rueben Archer; founded the Montrose Bible Conference in 1908 and is buried there)

• How to study the Bible for the greatest profit (1896)
• How to succeed in the Christian life (1906)
• The person and work of the Holy Spirit as revealed in the scriptures and in personal experience (1906)
• ... and many more

Van Eck, Stephen (resident of Rushville)

• Opposing Fascion: A Book of Improper Poetry (Wet Water Publications, 1992)
• Tales of the US Post Awful (Pine Hill Press, 1992)

Vitale, Ann E. (resident of Montrose)

• Drug therapy and sexual disorders (Mason Crest, 2007)
• Last words (by C. J. Lang, pseudonym for a group of authors including Vitale; self-published, 2009)
• Manager (Careers with Character series; Mason Crest, 2003)
• Regional folklore (North American Folklore series; Mason Crest, 2002)
• Stories in A Cup of Comfort series and in Chicken soup: What I learned from the dog

Weber, Carolyn (Sindi) (resident of the Hallstead area?)

• Our most inner reflections (co-writer; PublishAmerica, 2005)
• Inner thoughts (PublishAmerica, 2004)

Wheatley, Flo, LPN (My Brother's Keeper/ Hop Bottom)

• My own business : private home care dispatcher (self-published, 2001)

Wooden, Sherman F. (resident of Montrose, charter member of the Center for Anti-Slavery Studies)

• The Place I Call Home: How Abolition and the Underground Railroad Shaped the Communities of Northeastern Pennsylvania (Center for Anti-Slavery Studies, 2009)

Young, William S. (lifetime resident of Thompson Township, railway historian; featured in William Least Heat Moon's Roads to Quoz : an American mosey)

• The Bridge of stone : a history of the Starrucca Viaduct (Starrucca Valley Publications, 1974)
• Covered wagons : the early road diesels of the Erie Lackawanna (Starrucca Valley Publications, 1976)
• Starrucca: the bridge of stone (Privately published, 1995 - 2007)
• Tunkhannock : the great white bridge at Nicholson, Pennsylvania, and the Lackawanna Railroad's Clarks Summit-Hallstead Cutoff (Privately published, 2007)
• UV: the life and times of a small railroad; a definitive account of the Unadilla Valley Railway (Privately published, 2009)
• Editor and publisher of Steam Locomotive (1958-1960)/ Steam Locomotive & Railroad Tradition (1960-1968) / Railroading ("gold standard of rail fan publications")

Other local books (cookbooks, etc.)

Altar & Rosary Society, Holy Name of Mary Church

• Sugar and spice and everything nice (1964)

Snake Creek Volunteer Fire Company

• Prize recipes of Snake Creek (?) (1964)

Illustrators

Heidi Parmelee-Clark, illustrator of A cat tale in Spiceville by Ed Aswad (Carriage House Photography, 2004)

Barbara Remington, most well-known for the covers of the Ballantine paperback editions of The Lord of the Rings

Karen Roszel, The Diamond Button