Barbara Kukla has written seven books about the people of Newark including the latest, Newark Women: From Suffragettes to the Statehouse . Before her retirment from newspaper writing in 2004, Kukla spent 43 years as a journalist, most of the that at The Star-Ledger , where she first served as a general assingment reporter and Sunday city editor. Many of her books have been focused on the jazz scene in Newark. Kukla holds a B.A. degree in English from Bloomfield College, an M.A. degree in