She also wrote poetry, plays which were produced on Broadway, and other good essays. She was most famous in her day as a novelist, but her novel, Cactus Thorn was so wildly powerful and feminist it was only published in the last decade. A Year on the Great Beach of Cape Cod. A well to do nature writer built a cabin at the end of Cape Cod and spent the winter there alone. It is extremely well written and thoughtful.
Most readers feel they are actually there in the storms.
The Last Harvest. The annual Burroughs award in nature writing is named for him. His essays are no longer popular, but they read well and are full of deceptively simple nature description. His tone is strangely detached and his subject is not didactic. It is something of a wonder that he was so popular at a time when nature writing was wildly romantic and loaded with symbolism and morals.