Other novels included Return to Peyton Place (1959), The Tight White Collar (1961) and ''No Adam in Eden" (1963).
With regard to her success, she said "If I'm a lousy writer, then an awful lot of people have lousy taste;" and as to the frankness of her work, "Even Tom Sawyer had a girlfriend, and to talk about adults without talking about their sex drives is like talking about a window without glass."