Dr. Blight plans to publish the newly discovered narratives together, along with his research into the lives of their unsung authors.
As Campanella recently said, "Clarke and Rapuano are the unsung authors of much of New York City's urban landscape, the designers of many of the parks and parkways typically credited solely to [New York planning commissioner] Robert Moses - a guy with a colossal ego" - who overshadowed them.
And I love all the Persephone books, the unsung women authors of the early 20th century.
In his book Unsung Heroes of Rock'n'Roll, author Nick Tosches called Jackson "the greatest menstruating rock'n'roll singer the world has ever known".
V. R. Devika, author of Tara: Unsung heroine describes her as a woman "treated like an equal and her opinion mattered as if she were one of the lieutenants".
A particular strength of this book is the number of doubters the authors unearthed: the unsung government analysts, public lawyers and private researchers who dared to question policy decisions and stand up to the formidable "housers," as the true believers in government subsidies for home ownership are called.
He was the author of "Patton's Unsung Armor of the Ardennes: The Tenth Armored Division's Secret Dash to Bastogne" (2008).
Her husband, author of the still unsung pre-war masterpiece Die Blendung or Auto-da-Fé (1935), was reluctant to write for publishers because he feared it would compromise his commitment to truth.
Its authors are the scandalously unsung heroes Richard Berkowitz and Michael Callen, who are pictured above working on How to Have Sex in an Epidemic, and their doctor, Joseph Sonnabend, M.D.
David Zweig is the author, most recently, of "Invisibles: Celebrating the Unsung Heroes of the Workplace".
