New York: Dutton, 1966. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's now rather hard to find first novel, one which begins and ends at the funeral of a university president. Orville Prescott called it a "first novel of uncommon excellence.. ruefully satirical, her people sadly human in their egotism, self-absorption and isolation" and Time Magazine called it "a clean-cut gem of a novel." 249 pp.

New York: The Viking Press, (2001.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A satirical comedy, the 11th in his series of academic novels, in which a young widow who teaches creative writing at a provincial university is is relentlessly pursued by the sexually predatory (although married) Ralph Messenger, who heads the Center for Cognitive Science. A New York Times Notable Book for 2001. 340 pp. ISBN: 0-670-899844.