Author: Edith Wharton's Women: Friends and Rivals, 1990, Edith Wharton's Women, 1994, Ellen Glasgow: A Biography, 1998, Civil Wars: American Novels of Manner, 1880-1940, 2003, (with Carl Dawson) William Dean Howells: A Writer's Life, 2005.
Member Modern Language Association, Ellen Glasgow Society, Edith Wharton Society, Society Study of Southern Lit., William Dean Hawell Society