• One of My Names Was Pocahontas, RoseDog Books, 2016
  • Friends in High Places, Barringer Publishing, 2011
  • My Neighbor’s Ghosts, Mariner Companies, Inc., 2007
  • All Time Is Now: Adventures with Jennie, Infinity Publishing, 2005
  • The Complete Guide to Edible Wild Plants, Mushrooms, Fruits, and Nuts: How to Find, Identify, and Cook Them, Lyons Press, 2004
  • My Dearest Angel: A Virginia Family Chronicle, 1895-1947, Ohio University Press, 2002
  • Good-Bye to Old Peking: The Wartime Letters of U.S. Marine Captain John Seymour Letcher, 1937–1939, (editor with Roger B. Jeans), Ohio State University Press, 1998
  • The Foraging Gourmet, Lyons & Burford, 1997
  • When the Fighting Is All Over: The Memoir of a Marine Corps General’s Daughter, Longstreet Press, 1997
  • Letters from Peking 1936–39 (ed.), with Roger Jeans, 1997
  • The Wild Berry Book: Romance, Recipes and Remedies, Minnetonka, Minnesota: Cowles Creative, 1994
  • Scalded to Death by the Steam: Authentic Stories of Railroad Disasters and the Ballads That Were Written About Them, Algonquin Books, 1983, 1998
  • The Man Who Wanted Seven Wives, Algonquin, 1986
  • Finders Weepers, Coward, McCann and Geoghegan, 1982
  • Dark but Full of Diamonds (adapted for HBO’s “Family Playhouse”), Coward, McCann and Geoghegan, 1981
  • American South: Portrait of a Culture (contributor; by Louis D. Rubin), Louisiana State University Press, 1980
  • The Golden Shores of Heaven, Lippincott, 1976
  • Fair Day and Another Step Begun, Lippincott, 1974
  • I Will Go Barefoot All Summer for You, Lippincott, 1973
  • I Will Go Barefoot for You in the Spring, Lippincott, 1971
  • Lyrics of Three Women (with Maude Rubin and May Miller), Linden Press, 1963