By Subject of Literary Work - Single parents or single-parent families
- About a Boy
- After the Fair
- Anywhere but Here
- Blue Shoe
- The Boy Without a Flag
- Ceremonies in Dark Old Men
- Cimarron
- The Cinderella Waltz
- Counting Months
- Customs of the Country
- Desirable Daughters
- The Diviners
- Dreamers in a Dead Language
- The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds
- Faith in a Tree
- Fatherless America
- First, Body
- The Golden Notebook
- The Good Mother
- The Heart of a Woman
- A Hero Ain’t Nothin’ but a Sandwich
- In the Ditch
- Islands on the Moon
- The Lost Father
- Mama
- The Middle Ground
- Our Nig
- Plainsong
- The Poetry of Williams (Sherley Anne)
- A Prayer for Owen Meany
- Saint Maybe
- Settled on the Cranberry Coast
- Slow Homecoming
- Staring at the Sun
- The Street
- A String in the Harp
- Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush
- Technical Difficulties
- Tex
- Time and Tide
- Waiting to Exhale
- Welding with Children
