Books
- Men on Bataan, 1942
- Into the Valley, 1943
- A Bell for Adano, 1944
- Hiroshima, 1946
- The Wall, 1950
- The Marmot Drive, 1953
- A Single Pebble, 1956
- The War Lover, 1959
- The Child Buyer, 1960
- White Lotus, 1965
- Too Far To Walk, 1966
- Under the Eye of the Storm, 1967
- The Algiers Motel Incident, 1968
- Letter to the Alumni, 1970
- The Conspiracy, 1972
- My Petition for More Space, 1974
- The Walnut Door, 1977
- Aspects of the Presidency, 1980
- The Call, 1985
- Blues, 1987
- Life Sketches, 1989
- Fling and Other Stories, 1990
- Antonietta, 1991
- Key West Tales, 1994
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