She published three more articles in The Guardian and began work on a new book, Writing America: How Novelists Invented and Gendered a Nation, on the role of novelists such as Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner in the development of American political and cultural identity, which was left unfinished when she died.
Hon publicerade ytterligare tre artiklar i Guardian och började arbeta på en ny bok, Writing America: How Novelists Invented and Gendered a Nation, om den roll som spelats av författare som Ernest Hemingway och William Faulkner i utvecklingen av amerikansk politisk och kulturell identitet.