Dartmouth in Fiction and Memoir

 

The following works (both fictional and autobiographical works) offer depictions of Dartmouth, Dartmouth students, or lightly fictionalized versions of the College:

  • Barreca, Gina. Babes in Boyland: A Personal History of Co-Education in the Ivy League. UPNE, 2005.
  • Carpenter, William. A Keeper of Sheep. Milkweed, 1994.
  • Coolidge, Susan. What Katy Did at School. Roberts Brothers, 1885.
  • Eastman, Chalres A. Deep Woods to Civilization. Little, Brown, 1916.
  • Erdrich, Louis and Michael Dorris. The Crown of Columbus. HarperCollins, 1991.
  • Gray, Ed. “Across the River Rising.” Dartmouth Alumni Magazine. pp. 23-26. May, 1993.
  • Heller, Peter. The River. Knopf, 2020.
  • Hyman, Vernon Tom. Giant Killer. Richard Marek, 1981.
  • Imbs, Bravig. The Professor’s Wife. The Dial Press, 1928.
  • Lohse, Andrew. Confessions of an Ivy League Frat Boy: A Memoir. St. Martin’s Press, 2014.
  • Kelley, Eric P. Three Sides of Agiochook: A Tale of the England Frontier in 1775. Macmillan, 1935.
  • Kelley, Robert Eaton. The First Book of Timothy: A Novel. University Press of New England, 1996.
  • Kemeny, Jean Alexander. It’s Different at Dartmouth: A Memoir.  Stephen Greene Press, 1979.
  • Korelitz, Jean Hanff. The Devil and Webster. Grand Central Publishing, 2017.
  • Maclean, Norman. “This Quarter I’m Taking McKeon” Norman Maclean Reader. University of Chicago Press, 2008.
  • Marks, Percy. The Plastic Age. The Century Company, 1924.
  • Miller, Chris. The Real Animal House: A Mostly Lucid Memoir. Back Bay Books, 2006.
  • Orr, Clifford. The Dartmouth Murders. Grosset & Dunlap, 1929.
  • Parini, Jay. The Love Run. Little, Brown, 1980.
  • Simmons, Paullina. Red Leaves. St Martins, 1996.
  • Tait, Kimberley. Fake Plastic Love. Flatiron, 2017.