Published

Fiction

“The Secret Keeper,” in storySouth, Issue 59, Spring 2025:

http://storysouth.com/stories/the-secret-keeper/

Nonfiction

My book, Caroline Gordon as Novelist and Woman of Letters, was published (under the name of Rose Ann C. Fraistat), by Louisiana State University Press in 1984.

“A well-balanced and judicious account which points out influences from Henry James to T. S. Eliot and which does not blink at Gordon’s limitations.”

“One of the best books on an American novelist published this year.”

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Review excerpts

“[Rose Ann C.] Fraistat has written a well-balanced and judicious account which points out influences from Henry James to T. S. Eliot and which does not blink at Gordon’s limitations.”—The Year’s Work in English Studies, The English Association, Volume 66 for 1985, Item 175.

“It is through such unobtrusive but perceptive connections that [Rose Ann C.] Fraistat’s Caroline Gordon as Novelist and Woman of Letters helps us to see the basic coherence of Gordon’s thought and work. A thorough and gracefully written introductory study, it will provide a useful basis for the more specialized scholarship sure to be devoted to an artist of Gordon’s stature” (p. 485).—Mark Royden Winchell, “Dionysus in Dixie: Studies in Southern Modernism,” The Canadian Review of American Studies (Vol 17, Number 4, Winter 1986), pp. 483-494.

“Caroline Gordon as Novelist and Woman of Letters is a superior work of practical criticism. It is based on a close reading of the texts and relevant scholarship and is written in a clear authoritative style. It is certainly one of the best books on an American novelist published this year” (p. 401). —W. J. Stuckey, in Modern Fiction Studies, Summer 1985, pp. 400-401.