THEODORE ROETHKE, AN AMERICAN ROMANTIC (1980)

AN INVITATION TO POETRY (1986)

TOWN LIFE: Poems (1988)

LOVE RUN (1989)

BAY OF ARROWS (1992)

JOHN STEINBECK: A Biography (1996)

BEJAMIN'S CROSSING: A Novel (1998)

SOME NECESSARY ANGELS (2000)

THE ART OF TEACHING (2005)

PROMISE LAND: Thirteen Books That Changed America (2010)

THE LAST STATION (2010)

WHY POETRY MATTERS (2010)

THE PASSAGES OF H.M.: A Novel of Herman Melville (2011)

ANTHRACITE COUNTRY (2013)

THE ART OF SUBTRACTION (2013)

HOUSE OF DAYS (2013)

THE PATCH BOYS (2013)

JESUS: The Human Face of God (Icons) (2014)

ROBERT FROST: A Life (2015)

EMPIRE OF SELF: A Life of Gore Vidal (2015)