Novels
- The Lusty Land (originally published as Hired Girl) 1953, Universal
- Whisper Their Love 1957, Gold Medal
- The Girls in 3-B 1959, Gold Medal
- Stranger on Lesbos 1960, Gold Medal
- A World Without Men 1963, Midwood Tower
- Unlike Others 1963, Midwood Tower
- Return to Lesbos 1963
- Journey to Fulfillment 1964, Midwood Tower
- The Secret of the Bayou 1967, Ace (as Francine Davenport)
- Love Image 1977, Naiad
- Prism 1981, Naiad
- Ripening 1988, Banned Books
- Rice and Beans 1989
Read more about this topic: Valerie Taylor (novelist)
Famous quotes containing the word novels:
“Good novels are not written by orthodoxy-sniffers, nor by people who are conscience-stricken about their own orthodoxy. Good novels are written by people who are not frightened.”
—George Orwell (1903–1950)
“Compare the history of the novel to that of rock ‘n’ roll. Both started out a minority taste, became a mass taste, and then splintered into several subgenres. Both have been the typical cultural expressions of classes and epochs. Both started out aggressively fighting for their share of attention, novels attacking the drama, the tract, and the poem, rock attacking jazz and pop and rolling over classical music.”
—W. T. Lhamon, U.S. educator, critic. “Material Differences,” Deliberate Speed: The Origins of a Cultural Style in the American 1950s, Smithsonian (1990)
“All middle-class novels are about the trials of three, all upper-class novels about mass fornication, all revolutionary novels about a bad man turned good by a tractor.”
—Christina Stead (1902–1983)