Anderson's High Tor (1937) is an intriguing play about nature and beauty that takes place on a mountain near the Hudson River.

T. S. Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral (1935), the influential playwright, poet, and critic's most successful verse drama, is about the martyrdom of Saint Thomas Beckett of Canterbury.

Paul Avrich's Sacco and Vanzetti (1996) is a thorough and compelling nonfiction overview of the case in the background of Winterset.

Sunrise at Campobello (1957), by Dore Schary, is a popular play that looks back at the political career of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who led the country through much of the Great Depression.

John Dos Passos's most famous novel, Manhattan Transfer (1925), contains some radical ideas attacking American materialism and social injustice.