Berkshire Authors C-D

Many talented authors, illustrators, and photographers reside in and around the Berkshires, and we are pleased to feature their work.

Click on a name or picture below to look through their body of work.

Nancy Castaldo
Nancy Castaldo has written books about our planet for over 20 years.

Siobhan M. Cefarelli
Siobhan is an author an writer with an empowering story of God's life-changing power. She lives in Connecticut with her husband and children.
Roselle Kline Chartock
Roselle K. Chartock, a Professor at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, teaches graduate and undergraduate education courses as well as courses within the Honors Program and the First Year Seminar.
Karen Chase
Among her honors, she has been a Fellow at The MacDowell Colony, The Sanskriti Foundation, and at The Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Center.
Alana Chernila
Alana is a local author, mother, blogger, and politician. She says it best on her blog.
Laura Chester
Laura Chester has published many volumes of poetry, prose and non-fiction.
Jody Chiquoine
She is a Certified Canine Rehabilitation Therapist, a member of the American Canine Sports Medicine Association and certified in canine massage.
Joan Cohen
Joan Cohen is the author of Land of Last Chances. She lives in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, with her husband and golden retriever.
Stephen Cope
Stephen Cope, MSW, psychotherapist and senior Kripalu Yoga teacher, is author of Yoga and the Quest for the True Self and The Wisdom of Yoga: A Seeker's Guide to Extraordinary Living.
Amy Cotler
A longtime advocate of seasonal cooking and local eating, she is the founding director of Berkshire Grown, which became an early model for local farm and food advocacy.
Robert Crooke
Robert Crooke is a journalist, media executive, and teacher.
John Crowley John Crowley
John Crowley is the author of nine novels and two collections of short fiction.
Gene Dattel
Gene Dattel is a financial historian, author, lecturer, government and private sector adviser on American and Asian financial institutions, media commentator, and former international capital markets investment banker at Salomon Brothers and Morgan Stanley.
Robb Forman Dew
Robb Forman Dew is the author of a memoir, The Family Heart, as well as the novels Dale Loves Sophie to Death, for which she received the National Book Award, and more.
Starr Diethorn
Starr is a debut author. Her book, Death at Wildbough, is the first in the Berkshire Hills Mystery series. 
Gregory Dix
Co-author of LAKER: The Glory Years of Sir Freddie Laker with Ania Grzesik, Gregory Dix has been a resident of Berkshire County since 1992.
Stephen G. Donaldson
After 13 years working in the corporate sector, Steve Donaldson picked up two cameras and "threw it all away" to pursue his lifelong dream of photodocumenting a journey around the world.
Bernard Drew Bernard Drew
Author and Great Barrington town historian, Bernard Drew has written the definitive history of Great Barrington.