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  • Bibliography:
    5 Books
  • First Book:
    May 1985
  • Latest Book:
    April 2026
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Book List in Order: 5 titles



  • Louise Brown, a drifting woman of indeterminate age, is devoted to New Orleans' granduer and gentility, especially as embodied in old Mr. Collier, his subject-to-drink older son, and his subject-to-falls younger son...





  • Acclaimed for her "gleeful and contagious love of language" (Los Angeles Times), Nancy Lemann evokes the tattered glamour of fading traditional Southern society like no other writer. Now she introduces the aristocratic Stewart clan of New Orleans, i...



  • Struggling against her California home community of sun worshippers, new-age practitioners, and mall enthusiasts, Alabama-born Fleming Ford finds herself torn between devotion to her husband and an attraction to an older English tycoon who represents...



  • From the author of the cult classic Lives of the Saints, a diaristic novel of middle-aged reckoning that roves from Washington, D.C. to New Orleans, from court records to Don Giovanni, all of it riotously narrated by one of American fiction’s m...




Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Nancy Lemann has published 5 books.

The next book by Nancy Lemann, The Oyster Diaries, will be published in April 2026.

The first book by Nancy Lemann, Lives of the Saints, was published in May 1985.

No. Nancy Lemann does not write books in series.