• Home Free: a novel, Delacourt Press, 1991
  • Apple For My Teacher: Twelve Writers Tell About Teachers Who Made All the Difference (contributor), Algonquin Books, 1990
  • Joanna’s Husband and David’s Wife, Delacorte Press, 1986
  • Life Sentences: a novel, Delacorte Press, 1982
  • Her Work: Stories by Texas Women (contributor), Shearer, 1982
  • A Woman of Independent Means, Viking, 1978, (20th anniversary edition with a new preface by Hailey, Penguin Books, 1998)