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.