Knox Writes

I heard Robin read his short story “Doughboy” to a packed audience in Founder’s Lounge. It was a mesmerizing reading—both the story itself and Robin’s dramatic reading of it. I think it’s the first time I’d heard a work of fiction read out loud. It made me aware of the power of both words and performance, and it’s why I registered for Robin’s classes the following year.

Wolf has also published articles on baseball literature and history and is the author of The Called Shot: Babe Ruth, the Chicago Cubs and the Unforgettable Major League Baseball Season of 1932 (University of Nebraska Press, 2020). He is currently working on a history of the 1926 major league baseball season, tentatively titled Baseball in the Roaring Twenties: Babe Ruth’s Yankees, Roger Hornsby’s Cardinals, and the Summer of 1926.

Books by Members of the Knox Community

Biking Uphill in the Rain University of Washington Press, 2023

Tom Fucoloro ’08

Fucoloro, a leading voice on bike issues in the Puget Sound region, blends his longtime reporting with new interviews and archival research to tell the story of how a flourishing bike culture emerged despite the obstacles of climate, topography, and—most importantly— an entrenched, car-centric urban landscape and culture.

William Hunter, Finding Free Speech: A British Soldier’s Son Who Became an Early American Sunbury Press, 2022

Gene Procknow ’76

In June 1798, President John Adams signed the now infamous Alien & Sedition Acts to suppress political dissent. Facing imminent personal risks, a gutsy Kentucky newspaper editor ran the first editorial denouncing the law’s attempt to stifle the freedom of the press. Almost immediately, government lawyers recommended his arrest and prosecution. That editor was William Hunter, amazingly, the son of a British soldier.

Knowing Him by Heart: African Americans on Abraham Lincoln

University of Illinois Press, 2022

Edited by Fred Lee Hord and Matthew D. Norman ’93

Though not blind to Abraham Lincoln’s imperfections, Black Americans long ago laid a heartfelt claim to his legacy. Hord and Norman’s anthology explores the complex nature of views on Lincoln through the writings and thoughts of prominent African Americans, including Frederick Douglass, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Mary McLeod Bethune, Malcolm X, Barack Obama, and others.

Talking ’Bout My Generation: The Amazing Journey of Pete Townshend's Woodstock Special Eckhartz Press, 2022 Will Wagner ’87

Spanning three decades, the novel is an imagining of what happened after Pete Townshend tossed his guitar into the crowd at the end of The Who’s historic set at Woodstock.

Flashback

Basketball back in the day

Women’s basketball became a varsity sport at Knox sometime in the 1970s, but it was always a popular sport. These women were playing in the 1940s.

We’d love to hear memories from some former women’s basketball players. Email knoxmag@knox.edu with your stories.