“Grace O’Malley,” Islands, 1986
“Growing Up Baptist,” Ms., 1989
“Cape Breton Doctor,” Canadian Medical Association Journal, 1989
“Motherhood or Bust,” On the Issues, Fall 1990
“Characters from Young Adult Literature,” School Libraries Media Activities Monthly, March 1993

Bluff Your Way in the Deep South, Centennial Press, 1990
Contests for Students, Gale Research, October 1999
Characters from Young Adult Literature, Libraries Unlimited, 1991
Late Achievers, Libraries Unlimited, 1992
Japan vs. U. S., Blackbirch for Millbrook, 1993
Crossing Barriers, Libraries Unlimited, 1993
Black History Month Resource Book, 1st ed., Gale Research, 1993, 1998
Indian Terms of the Americas, Libraries Unlimited, 1994
Voyages in Classical Mythology, ABC-Clio, 1994
Encyclopedia of Utopian Literature, ABC-Clio, 1995
Illustrated Dictionary of Little-Known Words from Literary Classics, ABC-Clio, 1995
Celebrating Women’s History, Gale, 1996
Encyclopedia of Satirical Literature, ABC-Clio, 1997
Encyclopedia of Frontier Literature, ABC-Clio, 1997, reissued Oxford Press, 1999
Signs of the Zodiac, Greenwood, 1997
Encyclopedia of Southern Literature, ABC-Clio, 1997
Contemporary Storytellers, McFarland, 1998
Multicultural Dictionary of Literary Terms, McFarland, 1998
Encyclopedia of Fable, ABC-Clio, 1998
Historical Encyclopedia of Nursing, ABC-Clio, 1999, reissued Plymbridge, 2000
Who’s Who in the Middle Ages, McFarland, 2001
Religious Sites in America, McFarland, 2001
Encyclopedia of World Scripture, McFarland, 2002
Coins and Currency in History, McFarland, 2003
Chronology of World Epidemics, McFarland, 2003
A History of Women in the United States, co-author, Grolier, 2003
Encyclopedia of Gothic Literature, Facts on File, 2004
Encyclopedia of Kitchen History, Fitzroy-Dearborn, 2004
World Shores and Beaches, McFarland, 2005
Encyclopedia of Feminist Literature, Facts on File, 2006
Encyclopedia of the Underground Railroad, M. E. Sharpe, 2007"
Beating the Odds, Greenwood, 2008
Civil Disobedience, M. E. Sharpe, 2008

Cliffs Notes:  Jane Eyre, Our Town, Billy Budd, Typee, Benito Cereno, Bartleby the Scrivener, Heat and Dust, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, All Quiet on the Western Front, Farewell to Manzanar, Beloved, The Handmaid’s Tale, The Kitchen God’s Wife, Night, Light in the Forest, Modern American Poets, Greek Classics, Roman Classics, 1988-2001
Teaching Portfolios, 1986-1988
Cliff Notes in the Classroom, 1988

Perma-Bound:
The Great American English Handbook, 1987, 1990
Perma Guides, 1991-2008
English with Style, 2008

Media Materials
Reading the Newspaper, 1990
Writing Letters, 1990

Bancroft-Sage Environmental Awareness
Acid Rain, 1991
Air Pollution, 1991
Land Pollution, 1991
Solid Waste, 1991
Toxic Waste, 1991
Water pollution, 1991

Gale:
DISCovering Authors, Gale, 1994-1995
Contemporary Black Biography, Gale Group, 2002
Contemporary Fashion, Gale Group, 2002
Contemporary Hispanic Biography, Gale Group, 2002
Contemporary Musicians, Gale Group, 2002
Contemporary World Biography, Gale Group, 2002

McFarland Literary Companion: 
Amy Tan, 2004
August Wilson, 2004
Barbara Kingsolver, 2004, McFarland
Walter Dean Myers, 2006, McFarland
Kaye Gibbons, 2006, McFarland
Jamaica Kincaid, 2006, McFarland

Wiley, Shakespeare on the Double!
Hamlet, 2006
Julius Caesar, 2006
Macbeth, 2006
Romeo and Juliet, 2006
Taming of the Shrew, 2008
Othello, 2008
Twelfth Night, 2008
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, 2008

Peter Carey:  McFarland Literary Companion
Nora Roberts, Greenwood
Literature of Empires, Facts on File
The Civil War at Home, M. E. Sharpe

NCTE; ACLU; Author’s Guild; founding officer of Friends of the Library; Hickory Public Library board member; Mensa; Frye Regional Medical Center emergency room volunteer; piano teacher for Cooperative Christian Ministry; dramaturge for Hickory Community Theater; Meals on Wheels; foster parent of six teenagers; publicity writer for Unique World Gifts, a non-profit third-world boutique; program notes for Hickory Choral Society; political speechwriter; trainer for Hickory Big Read; discussion leader for N.C. Humanities Commission, 2007-2009

Hickory City Schools, 1950-1962 (Salutatorian, National Merit Scholar)
UNC-Greensboro, 1962-1966 (Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa, B. A. in English and classics, Leonard B. Hurley scholar)
Appalachian State University, 1966-1968 (M. A. in English, minor in psychology)
Lenoir-Rhyne College, 1979-1980 (certification in gifted education); 1986-1988 (French literature and civilization)
North Carolina Math and Science School, 1982, independent research on gender differences in teen behavior and achievement

Hickory Chamber of Commerce Star Teacher Award, 1971, 1972
Hickory Daily Record writing contest winner, 1983
Anchorage Education Association writing contest runner-up, 1988
Who’s Who,1989-2002
Something About the Author, 1993
New York Public Library Book Choice, 1994 , 2006
Choice magazine reference work of the year, November 1994
International Authors and Writers Who’s Who, 1995, 1996, 1998
ALA, Choice, and Library Journal reference book of the year, 1996
Library Journal reference book of the year, 2000
Contemporary Authors, 2006
Encyclopedia of the Underground Railroad, Booklist Editors Choice, 2008