Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Philip Freneau -- James Fenimore Cooper -- Mary Griffith -- Walt Whitman -- Mary Mapes Dodge -- Thomas Nast -- Mary Wilkins Freeman -- Stephen Crane -- Albert Payson Terhune -- William Carlos Williams -- Joyce Kilmer -- Allen Ginsberg -- Mary Higgins Clark -- Toni Morrison -- Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) -- Joyce Carol Oates -- Peter Benchley -- Anna Quindlen -- Cheaper by the Dozen -- Goodbye, Columbus -- The Pine Barrens -- Eddie and the Cruisers -- Jersey Luck -- Rosamund's Vision -- Laying Down the Law -- One for the Money -- Our Guys -- Lost Legends of New Jersey -- Searching for Captain Kidd's Treasure -- Burr, Hamilton, and the Duel of History in Weehawken -- The Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping -- The Hindenburg Disaster -- The Trials of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter -- Mobbed in New Jersey -- On the (Paper) Trail of the New Jersey Devil -- Dodge Poetry Festival -- The New Jersey Literary Hall of Fame -- Stages of Greatness: A Survey of the History of Theater in New Jersey -- Reaching Critical Mass in the Garden State -- Stoned in New Jersey -- Index -- About the Author.