Bruce Yuhas BHS '70 ~ Butler Author

 Bruce Yuhas has been writing semi-autobiographical novels based on his life while growing up in Butler.

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Butler Author ~ Kathleen Marie Smith

 Her latest book has just been published.

The Singing Sheriff of Baltimore

Michael Dittman ~ Butler Author

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Michael Dittman is an instructor of humanities and social sciences at Butler County Community College. His most recent book is entitled "Who Holds the Devil".

Keith Vargo ~ BHS '88

Keith Vargo is a writer, researcher, martial arts instructor, and fighter based in Tokyo. He was a columnist and Japan correspondent for Black Belt magazine for nearly 20 years.

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Linda Randig ~ Butler Author

Hello, Charles, Thank you for posting about my new poetry book. I lived in Connoquenessing until I was twelve in the 1950s and that is what the book is about. I did make it general enough that people from any small town should find things to relate to. Those who did not grow up in a small town might enjoy reading what that experience was like. The price of the book is $10 but there is also a $1 per book postage charge if anyone would like me to mail it to them. 

Linda Randig    joeswife803@gmail.com

Fr. Simon Conrad O.F.M. Cap.~

† 2013

Before entering the St. Fidelis Seminary in nearby Herman, Fr. Conrad lived on Polk Street in Butler. He was ordained a priest in 1946. Fr. Simon is widely remembered as a teacher, communicator and confessor. And till the end he was best known as a consummate gentleman and professional. Through all of his years of ministry, Father was known for his well-crafted and thoughtful preaching. On two occasions his audience was a national one. In 1954, he and fellow Capuchin Fr. Bertin Roll conducted the nation’s first televised youth mission, which was broadcast live for eight weeks on CBS network television’s “Look Up and Live.” In 1958, he also preached on CBS network radio’s “Church of the Air.” Father wrote two books: Master and Model, a life of Christ, and Brothers of the Sun, a brief history of the Capuchins, which had press runs totaling 40,000.

Nicole Luttrell ~ BHS '

"I was telling stories as soon as I had words to tell them with. But I started writing when I was thirteen when I came to the dawning realization that this was something that could be done for a living. That people could make their lives all about telling stories."

Butler Authors ~ C.F. Bellis ~ BHS '71

"I wrote Remember Reeny to memorialize my mom. The book takes place from 1937 to 1947 and encompasses her life during this turbulent time in American history."

C.F.Bellis

G. R. Minner ~ Butler Author

Linda Randig ~

Linda Randig researched and wrote this book this year and it just came out two weeks ago. It covers old Mom and Pop grocery stores within the city limits between 1903 and 2017. She found about 450 stores including well-known ones such as Mintz's, The Kozy Korner, Center Dairy and The Inn as well as many others in every neighborhood of the city. The book will appeal to those of us who are old enough to remember these stores as well as younger people who missed out on them but are interested in Butler's history. The cover features Earl Doria in his store on Mercer Street and there are another 16 pages of black and white photos.

The book can be ordered directly from Linda at 

joeswife803@gmail.com/

Butler County Authors ~ Polly Shaw ~ BHS '69

Polly Shaw, a native of Butler, BHS class of 1969, and lifelong Butler County resident, is a retired Seneca Valley teacher.  For over twenty years she has been a volunteer at McConnells Mill and Moraine State Parks.  In 2015 she heard about in inquiry from Arcadia Press for someone to take up the challenge to write a book at Moraine State Park.  She stepped up, and it was published in 2017.  She is now working on a second book, this time about McConnells Mill State Park.  She is an area speaker and presents programs about many aspects drawn from her book, to civic groups and public park programs.

Butler Authors ~

Bob Hazy 

BHS '82

Bob Hazy is a writer inspired by the works of Melville, Steinbeck, Hemingway, and Dostoevsky. He studied literature at Yale University earning a BA and also holds a MS in computer science from Stevens. Although Bob built a career in information technology leadership and is currently an independent consultant, his real love is writing and painting Click here. He lives in the foothills of the Sierra in Northern California with his son, Nathan, and their dog, Gus.

Congratulations, Bob, on your recently published book: 

McGhee in the Gloaming

Phyllis Lundy BHS '68 ~ Our Most Recent Butler Author

The essential life questions ~ Who am I? ~ What do I want from my life? ~ How do I break through the barriers and start taking steps in the direction of my dreams?

Milann Ruff Daugherty ~ BHS '64

Your Affectionate Son

by Milann Ruff Daugherty

When the Milann came across a box of yellowed letters in the bottom drawer of an old dresser, she discovered not only that the letters were all written by her great-great-uncle nearly one hundred and fifty years earlier but that they were a fascinating first-hand account of the Civil War as seen through the eyes of a young soldier.

William Manners~Butler Author~BHS '26

William Manners

† September 6, 1994

Editor, Biographer, Non-fiction Writer, Teacher, onetime boxer.

• Father and the Angels. New York: Dutton, 1947.
• Isn’t it a Crime? New York: Arc Books, 1947.
• One Is a Lonesome Number. New York: Dutton, 1950.
• Wake Up and Write. New York: Arc Books, 1962.
• The Barking Cat Case. New York: P. Collier, 1963.
• The Crying Schoolhouse Case. New York: P. Collier, 1963.
• The Fifty-pound Giant Case. New York: P. Collier, 1963.
• The Talking Pigeon Case. New York: P. Collier, 1963.
• One, Two, three, Go. New York: Four Winds Press, 1967.
• TR and Will: A Friendship that Split the Republican Party. New York: Harcourt, 1969
• Patience and Fortitude: Fiorello LaGuardia: A Biography. New York: Harcourt, 1976.
• The Quick and Easy Vegetarian Cookbook. (with Ruth Ann Mathers) New York: M. Evans, 1978. 

Pearl Nitsche BHS '66 ~ Butler Author

Pearl Nitsche, a native of Butler, is an enthusiastic language teacher. She has lived in Vienna for the last 30 years. During that time she has trained thousands of teachers in Austria and other European countries and is in demand as an international conference speaker. She specializes in "nonverbal classroom management" and "brain-friendly learning". 

Thomas Clayton Booher ~ BHS '66 ~ Butler Author

Thomas Booher's book The Oerken Leaves is a very good story. The genre is Christian science-fiction fantasy that does not offend or distort Biblical truth. It actually clarifies it.

Mayor Margaret Stock ~ BHS '69

Mayor Maggie Stock

 brought to public office the values and wisdom she learned in our small town, and recently she shared some of that inspiration by releasing a volume of poetry inspired by Butler. 

“Life in a Small Town” contains 21 poems.

Georgia Sawhook ~ BHS'66 ~ Butler Author

 Georgia seated on the floor in red.

Mother of seven and grandmother of 21.

Her book entitled ...."Potty Training To Puberty---THE PITS!!! (with hugs along the way)" is about mothering with a lot of love, encouragement, and inspiration from the Lord.

Chester Aaron BHS '41 ~ Butler Author

Prolific author of novels, stories, and memoirs, Chester Aaron was born in 1923 in a Butler. He saw combat in World War II, and was with the troops that liberated Dachau. Following publication of his first novel in 1967, he was an x-ray technician at Alta Bates Hospital in Berkeley, CA. Later he joined the faculty at Saint Mary’s College. Over the last twenty-five years, he has become known worldwide for the ninety varieties of exotic garlic he grows on his farm in Sonoma County.