Seven years after A Fan's Notes, published in 1968, Exley continued his autobiographical trilogy with Pages from a Cold Island (1975). Thirteen years hence, in 1988, Last Notes from Home appeared. While his disclaimer in the first novel asks that it be deemed fiction, the disclaimer in Pages from a Cold Island asks that it be considered nonfiction, even though both novels center on the fictional/factual persona of Fred Exley. Last Notes from Home extends this blending and blurring of genre, and of it a reviewer for the New York Times says: "By failing to leave home, Exley has succeeded in his quest to make home a place on the map of American Literature."