• To an Unknown God: Religious Freedom on Trial, St. Martin’s Press, 2001
  • The Floating Island: A Tale of Washington, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1985
  • The Shad Treatment: a novel, Putnam, 1977, (winner of the Lillian Smith Award for outstanding books about the South. Reissued in paperback in “The Virginia Bookshelf” with a new introduction, University Press of Virginia, 1997)