Reporter Kelly O’Quinn, of the Chicago Daily News, has always believed that “entangling office alliances” are not very helpful in advancing one’s career. She successfully manages to avoid those romantic entanglements until Junius B. Jefferson III is hired as a reporter. The charming and fascinating Junius introduces Kelly to a world of Hyde Park intellectuals, who love to party and dance as much as they like to argue. And then terrible, chaotic...

Chicago 1968: The Hammer of Justice (Kelly O’Quinn Mystery # 7) Kelly O’Quinn, after blowing the whistle on corrupt administrators and board members at Windy Ridge Academy and sending them to jail, decided she did not want to return to that Academy, for too many corners were filled with unpleasant memories. In seeking another teaching position, however, she found that her letters went unanswered and her telephone calls unreturned. Kelly...

All About Books: Reviews and Reflections" presents essays and ideas of the 1990 Teacher-Scholar of Illinois, who has been in the classroom for six decades and, at age 84, is still at it.

She Never Let Schooling Interfere with Her Education (Kelly O’Quinn Mystery # 6) Windy Ridge Academy, in She Never Let Schooling Interfere with Her Education (the sixth of the Kelly O’Quinn mystery series), looks very much like an elite private school and, on the surface at least, even seems to operate like one. Never mind that the Academy’s campus once was the home for the county’s incurably insane. Kelly O’Quinn, feeling burned out...

“Games, Dames, and Brains” is a chronological series of stories about the seemingly fragmentary adventures in the sporting life of a single protagonist, Billy Bender, who struggles to understand the meaning of the wins and losses of those events.

The Trout in the Milk (Kelly O’Quinn Mystery #2) Kelly is sent to cover a holocaust speaker, but she senses that beyond the speaker's story is another, hidden story. And she is right.

This book is not the typical standard institutional history. Instead, I have attempted to do something different, something more interesting. A 1926 alumni pamphlet noted that “were this to be an accurate history of the school it would have to include many tales of student life: literary societies with their harum scarum initiations, sports with championship teams, and midnight expeditions which kept the two constables worried.” It is impossible,...