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.
Publicou tres artigos máis en The Guardian e comezou a traballar nun novo libro, Writing America: How Novelists Invented and Gendered a Nation, sobre o papel de novelistas como Ernest Hemingway e William Faulkner no desenvolvemento da identidade política e cultural estadounidense, que ficou inacabado cando finou.