Fiction

Reno Divorce Fiction

Novels written during the divorce era or influenced by direct experience 

 

Bacon, Frank
1920    Lightnin’. Grosset and Dunlap, New York

Baldwin, Faith
1941    Temporary Address: Reno. Farrar and Rinehart, Inc., New York.

Biggers, Earl Derr
1932    Keeper of the Keys.  Reprint 1969, Pyramid Books, New York.

Cain, James. M.
1947    Sinful Woman.  Reprint 1989, Black Lizard Books, Inc., Berkeley.
1950    Jealous Woman.  Reprint 1989, Black Lizard Books, Inc., Berkeley.

Carman, Dorothy Walworth
1932    Reno Fever.  Ray Long and Richard R. Smith, Inc., New York.

Clark, Walter Van Tilburg
1945    The City of Trembling Leaves.  Reprinted 1991.  University of Nevada Press, Reno.

Ford, Leslie
1939    Reno Rendezvous.  Farrar and Rinehart, Inc., New York.

Hamlin, John
1931    Whirlpool of Reno. The Dial Press, New York.

Homes, Geoffrey
1946    No Hands on the Clock.  Bantam Books, New York.

Hughes, Rupert
1930    No One Man.  A.L. Burt, New York.

Johnson, Latifa
1952    Sheila Goes to Reno.  Vantage Press, New York.

Lewis, Grace Hegger
1931    Half a Loaf.  Horace Liveright, New York.

McCarthy, Mary
1970    The Company She Keeps.  Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, New York.

Norden, Marilu
2008    Unbridled: A Tale of a Divorce Ranch.  BookSurge Publishing, Charleston, South Carolina.

Parmer, Charles B.
1932    After Divorce?  G. Howard Watt, New York.

Rule, Jane
1965    Desert of the Heart.  World Publishing Company, Cleveland.

Sims, Marion
1937    Call it Freedom.  J.B. Lippincott, Philadelphia.

Stern, Jill
1957    Not in Our Stars.  David McKay Company, New York.

Vanderbilt, Cornelius, Jr.
1929    Reno. The Macaulay Co., New York.