Alice Kaplan is the John M. Musser Professor of French and chair of the Department of French at Yale University.
 Before her arrival at Yale, she was the Gilbert, Louis and Edward Lehrman Professor of Romance Studies and Professor of Literature and History at Duke University and founding director of the Center for French and Francophone Studies there.
 She is the author of "Reproductions of Banality: Fascism, Literature, and French Intellectual Life" (1986); "French Lessons: A Memoir" (1993); "The Collaborator: The Trial and Execution of Robert Brasillach" (2000); and "The Interpreter" (2005), about racial injustice in the American army witnessed by Louis Guilloux.
 In March 2012, Kaplan's book about the Paris years of Jacqueline Bouvier, Susan Sontag, and Angela Davis, "Dreaming in French," was published by the University of Chicago Press.
 A French edition of "Dreaming in French", entitled "Trois Américaines à Paris: Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, Susan Sontag, Angela Davis", was published by Éditions Gallimard in October 2012, translated by Patrick Hersant.
Richard Russo (born July 15, 1949) is an American novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, and teacher.
Everybody's Fool is a 2016 novel by Richard Russo.
 It is a sequel to Russo's 1993 novel "Nobody's Fool".
The Best American Short Stories 2010, a volume in "The Best American Short Stories series", was edited by Heidi Pitlor and by guest editor Richard Russo.
The Risk Pool is Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Richard Russo's second novel.
 First published in 1988, "The Risk Pool" is a Bildungsroman or "coming of age" novel set in fictional Mohawk, New York, a dying blue-collar town.
 "The Risk Pool" was well received by critics, such as "The New York Times", which called it a "superbly original, maliciously funny book" and praised Russo's "brilliant, deadpan writing."
 In 2004, Warner Bros.
 Pictures was reported to be developing a movie based on the book, with Tom Hanks starring as Ned Hall's father and Lawrence Kasdan writing the script and directing.
Angela Yvonne Davis (born January 26, 1944) is an American political activist, academic, and author.
 She emerged as a prominent counterculture activist and radical in the 1960s as a leader of the Communist Party USA, and had close relations with the Black Panther Party through her involvement in the Civil Rights Movement.
Bridge of Sighs is a 2007 novel written by Richard Russo.
 "Bridge of Sighs " is Russo's first novel since his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "Empire Falls" (2002).
Straight Man (New York: Random House, 1997) is a novel by Richard Russo set at the fictional West Central Pennsylvania University in Railton, Pennsylvania.
 It is a mid-life crisis tale told in the first person by William Henry Devereaux, Jr., the unlikely interim chairman of the English department.
 Notable moments include the chairman's hiding in the rafters as the faculty vote on his dismissal, his threat of killing a campus pond duck every day until the department receives a budget, flirtations between faculty and students, satires on academic scholarship and stardom, and love and health in the season of grace.
 It is rumored that the material for this book came from Russo's experiences teaching at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Southern Connecticut State University or at Penn State Altoona.
Richard Louis "Dick" Proenneke (May 4, 1916 – April 20, 2003) was a self-educated naturalist who lived alone for nearly thirty years in the mountains of Alaska in a log cabin he had constructed by hand near the shore of Twin Lakes.
 Proenneke hunted, fished, raised and gathered his own food, and also had supplies flown in occasionally.
 He documented his activities in journals and on film, and also recorded valuable meteorological and natural data.
 The journals and film were later used by others to write books and produce documentaries about his time in the wilderness.
The Whore's Child and Other Stories is a collection of seven short stories by American author Richard Russo published in 2002 by Alfred A. Knopf.
 It was published after Russo received the Pulitzer Prize for "Empire Falls" hence gained considerable attention and many, mostly favorable reviews.

Question: Did Richard Russo and Angela Davis write books?
Answer: yes