Firth Haring Fabend

Shorter Works (Essays, Chapters in Books)

See "My Works" for shorter essays and chapters in books.

American History

New Netherland in a Nutshell: A Concise History of the Dutch Colony in North America

A concise history of the colony that became New York and New Jersey and parts of Delaware, Pennsylvania, and Connecticut. Just published! (2012)

Zion on the Hudson: Dutch New York and New Jersey in the Age of Revivals (2000)

Describes the efforts of the descendants of early Dutch settlers to preserve their Old World standards and traditions while developing a taste for a new kind of theology and a preference for an American identity.

A Dutch Family in the Middle Colonies, 1660-1800 (1991)

A prize-winning study of a large colonial American family over five generations.

Historical Fiction

Land So Fair

A family saga set in eighteenth-century New York and New Jersey

Fiction

The Best of Intentions

A story of the developing passion between unlikely opposites.

A Perfect Stranger

Dilemma of modern woman

The Woman Who Went Away

“An effective horror tale, psychologically well grounded, with a Deliverance undertone.”

--Kirkus Reviews

Poetry

A Catch of Grandmothers

Vignettes of Firth's nine Haring grandmothers going back to the first, born in New Amsterdam in 1641.

Memoir

Only a Paper Life, A Memoir

Memoir of Junior Year Abroad, England, 1957-1958

Shorter Works

Essays and Chapters in Books by Firth Haring Fabend.

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Land So Fair, a family saga set in the Hudson Valley in the 18th century

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