Her debut novel, The Company She Keeps, received critical acclaim as a succès de scandale, depicting the social milieu of New York intellectuals of the late 1930s with unreserved frankness.
A súa novela de debut, The Company She Keeps, de 1942, recibiu aclamación da crítica como un tema de escándalo, representando o ambiente social dos intelectuais de Nova York de finais de 1930 cunha franqueza sen reservas.