The Literature of Disappearance: A Bibliography in Progress
Following is my list of works – short fiction, novels, theory, criticism, memoir, general nonfiction, and contemporary poetry collections – that develop the trope of disappearance. An additional list of articles will follow in coming months.
Plays
Barrie, J.M. Peter Pan and Other Plays [Mary Rose]. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
Dorfman, Ariel. Death and the Maiden. New York: Penguin, 1994.
Kennedy, Fin. How to Disappear Completely and Never Be Found. London: Nick Hearn Books, 2008.
Short Stories
Bierce, Ambrose. The Complete Short Stories of Ambrose Bierce [“The Difficulty of Crossing a Field”]. Lincoln, NE: Bison Books, 1984.
Borges, Jorge Luis. Collected Fictions [“The Man on the Threshold”]. New York: Penguin, 1999.
Chaon, Dan. Among the Missing. New York: Ballantine, 2002.
Davenport, Guy. A Table of Green Fields [“Belinda’s World Tour”]. New York: New Directions, 1993.
Desai, Anita. The Artist of Disappearance. New York: Harper Perennial, 2012.
Doctorow, E. L. All the Time in the World: New and Selected Stories [“Wakefield”]. New York: Random House, 2012.
Doyle, Jacqueline. The Missing Girl. New York: Black Lawrence Press, 2017.
Doyle, Laurie Ann. World Gone Missing. Raleigh, NC: Regal House, 2017.
Gaskell, Elizabeth. In Household Words Vol. 3 (1851) [“Disappearances”]. Internet Archive.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel. Hawthorne’s Short Stories [“Wakefield”]. New York: Vintage, 2011.
Jackson, Shirley. Come Along With Me [“Louisa Please Come Home”]. New York: Viking, 1968.
—. “The Missing Girl.” New York: Penguin Random House, 2018.
Lawrence, D.H. The Woman Who Rode Away and Other Stories. New York: Penguin, 1997.
Masih, Tara Lynn. How We Disappear: Novella & Stories. Winston-Salem, NC: Press 53, 2022.
McEwen, Ian. First Love, Last Rites [“Solid Geometry”] New York: Random House, 1975.
Murakami, Haruki. The Elephant Vanishes. New York: Vintage, 1994.
Porter, Andrew. The Theory of Light and Matter. New York: Vintage, 2010.
—. The Disappeared. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2023.
Stern, Daniel. Twice Upon a Time: Stories. New York: W. W. Norton, 1992.
Stohlman, Nancy. After the Rapture. Baltimore, MD: Mason Jar Press, 2023.
Viramontes, Helena María. The Moths and Other Stories. [“The Cariboo Cafe”] Houston: Arte Público Press, 1995.
Yanagita, Kunio. The Legends of Tono. Washington, D.C.: Lexington Books, 2008.
Novels
Abbott, Megan. The Song is You. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2008.
—. The End of Everything. New York: Back Bay Books, 2012.
Abe, Kobe. The Ruined Map. New York: Vintage, 2001.
—. The Woman in the Dunes. New York: Vintage, 1991.
—. The Box Man. New York: Vintage, 2001.
—. Secret Rendezvous. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1979.
Alemán, Gabriela. Poso Wells. San Francisco: City Lights Books, 2018.
Ansay, A. Manette. Sister. New York: Harper Perennial, 1997.
Archambeau, Robert. Alice B. Toklas is Missing. Raleigh, NC: Regal House, 2023.
Atwood, Margaret. Surfacing. New York: Anchor, 1998.
Auster, Paul. The New York Trilogy. New York: Penguin, 2006.
—. Moon Palace. New York: Penguin, 1990.
—. The Brooklyn Follies. New York: Penguin, 2009.
—. Oracle Night. New York: St. Martin’s, 2009.
—. In the Country of Last Things. New York: Viking, 1987.
Azem, Ibtisam. The Book of Disappearance. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Publications in Continuing Education, 2019.
Balzac, Honoré de. Colonel Chabert. New York: New Directions, 1997.
Bambara, Toni Cade. Those Bones Are Not My Child. New York: Vintage, 2000.
Bauer, Belinda. Snap. New York: Grove Press, 2019.
Bennett, Brit. The Vanishing Half. New York: Riverhead Books, 2022.
Berti, Eduardo. La mujer de Wakefield. Barcelona: Tusquets Editores, 2000.
Bicecci, Verónica Gerber. Empty Set. Minneapolis: Coffeehouse Press, 2018.
Bolaño, Roberto. Distant Star. New York: New Directions, 2004.
—. 2666. New York: Picador, 2009.
Bombal, María Luisa. House of Mist. New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2008.
Braunstein, Sarah. The Sweet Relief of Missing Children. New York: W.W. Norton, 2012.
Buckhanon, Kalisha. Speaking of Summer. Berkeley: Counterpoint, 2020.
—. Running to Fall. AALBC Aspire, 2022.
Busch, Frederick. Girls. New York: Ballantine, 1998.
—. North. New York: W. W. Norton, 2005.
Ch’oi, Yun. The Last of Hanako. Seoul: Jimoondang, 2003.
Chraïbi, Driss. Flutes of Death. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 1997.
Codrescu, Andrei. Wakefield. New York: Algonquin Books, 2004.
D’Adesky, Anne-Christine. Under the Bone. New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1994.
Danticat, Edwige. The Dew Breaker. New York: Vintage, 2005.
—. Claire of the Sea Light. New York: Vintage, 2014.
Dave, Laura. The Last Thing He Told Me. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2021.
Didion, Joan. A Book of Common Prayer. New York: Vintage, 1995.
Dyer, Geoff. The Search. Minneapolis: Graywolf, 2011.
Earling, Debra Magpie. Perma Red. Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 2022.
Englander, Nathan. The Ministry of Special Cases. New York: Vintage, 2008.
Ely, David. Seconds. New York: Harper Voyager, 2013.
Flynn, Gillian. Gone Girl. Ballantine, 2014.
Follet, Barbara Newhall. The House Without Windows. New York: Penguin, 2021.
Fowles, John. A Maggot. Boston: Little, Brown, 1985.
Frisch, Max. I’m Not Stiller. Dallas: Dalkey Archive, 2006.
Fuentes, Carlos. The Old Gringo. New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 2007.
Garro, Elena. Recollections of Things to Come. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1969.
Green, Henry. Concluding. New York: New Directions, 2017.
Gutcheon, Beth. Still Missing. New York: William Morrow & Company, 2005.
Hammett, Dashiell. The Maltese Falcon. New York: Vintage Crime, 2022.
Hawkins, Paula. Girl on a Train. New York: Riverhead Books, 2016.
Healey, Emma. Elizabeth is Missing. New York: Harper Perennial, 2015.
Hemingway, Ernest. The Torrents of Spring. New York: Scribner’s, 1998.
Herrera, Yuri. Signs Preceding the End of the World. Sheffield, UK: And Other Stories, 2015.
Ishiguro, Kazuo. When We Were Orphans. New York: Vintage, 2001.
Jabrā Ibrāhīm. Jabrā. In Search of Walid Masoud. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2000.
Jackson, Shirley. Hangsaman. New York: Penguin, 2013.
Jones, Tayari. Leaving Atlanta. New York: Grand Central, 2023.
Jonnie, Brianna and Nshannacappo. If I Go Missing. Toronto: Lorimer Children & Teens, 2019.
Jordan, Neil. The Drowned Detective. New York: Bloomsbury, 2016.
Kafka, Franz. Amerika: The Missing Person. New York, Schocken, 2011.
Kamal, Sheena. The Lost Ones. New York: William Morrow, 2018.
Kawakami, Hiromi. Manazuru. Berkeley: Counterpoint, 2017.
Khoury, Elias. White Masks. New York: Archipelago, 2010.
Kim, Angie. Happiness Falls. New York: Hogarth Press, 2023.
Knight, Carol Lynne. If I Go Missing. Newbergh, OR: Fernwood Press, 2022.
Ko, Lisa. The Leavers. New York: Algonquin Books, 2018.
Krabbé, Tim. The Vanishing. New York: Random House, 1993.
Kwok, Jean. Searching for Sylvie Lee. New York: William Morrow, 2020.
Lacey, Catherine. Nobody is Ever Missing. New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 2014.
Larsson, Stieg. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. New York: Vintage Crime, 2009.
Lee, Chang-Rae. Aloft. New York: Riverhead Books, 2005.
Lewis, Janet. The Wife of Martin Guerre. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2013.
Liu, Aimee. Flash House. New York: Warner Books, 2004.
Lindsay, Joan. Picnic at Hanging Rock. New York: Penguin, 2017.
Lippman, Laura. After I’m Gone. New York: Harper, 2014.
Lowndes, Marie Belloc. The End of Her Honeymoon. New York: Scribner’s, 1913.
Luiselli, Valeria. Lost Children Archive. New York: Vintage, 2020.
Mankowski, Guy. How I Left the National Grid: A Post-Punk Novel. Alresford, UK: Roundfire Books, 2015.
Mannion, Una. Tell Me What I Am. New York: Harper, 2023.
Marlowe, Derek. Echoes of Celandine. New York: Viking, 1970.
Martínez, Tomás Eloy. Santa Evita. New York: Vintage, 1997.
Matar, Hisham. Anatomy of a Disappearance. New York: Dial Press, 2012.
—. In the Country of Men. New York: Random House, 2008.
Matsumoto, Seicho. Point Zero. London: Bitter Lemon Press, 2024.
Maxwell, Abi. The Den. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2019.
McCarthy, Cormac. Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West. New York: Vintage, 1992.
McEwen, Ian. The Child in Time. New York: Knopf Doubleday, 1999.
Mendelsohn, Jane. I Was Amelia Earhart. New York: Vintage, 1997.
Michaels, Lisa. Grand Ambition. New York: W. W. Norton, 2002.
Mitchard, Jacquelyn. The Deep End of the Ocean. New York: Penguin, 1999.
Modiano, Patrick. Missing Person. Davine R. Godine, 2005.
—. Dora Bruder. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2014.
—. In the Café of Lost Youth. New York: New York Review of Books, 2016.
Mooney, Robert. Father of the Man. New York: Pantheon, 2001.
Morris, Mary McGarry. Vanished. New York: Penguin, 1997.
Morrison, Toni. Beloved. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987.
Morselli, Guido. Dissipatio H.G.: The Vanishing. New York: New York Review of Books, 2020.
Mueleman, Sarah. Find Me Gone. New York: Harper, 2018.
Murakami, Haruki. South of the Border, West of the Sun. New York: Vintage, 2000.
—. Sputnik Sweetheart. New York: Knopf Doubleday, 2002.
—. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. New York: Vintage, 1998.
Ndiaye, Marie. That Time of Year. San Francisco: Two Lines Press, 2023.
Ng, Celeste. Everything I Never Told You. New York: Penguin, 2015.
—. Little Fires Everywhere. New York: Penguin, 2019.
—. Our Missing Hearts. New York: Penguin, 2022.
Novey, Idra. Ways to Disappear. New York: Little, Brown, 2017.
Nutting, Alissa. Made for Love. New York: Ecco Press, 2018.
Oates, Joyce Carol. Carthage. New York: Ecco Press, 2014.
—. 48 Clues Into the Disappearance of My Sister. Mysterious Press, 2024.
O’Brien, Tim. In the Lake of the Woods. Boston: Mariner Bay Books, 2006.
Ogawa, Yoko. The Memory Police. New York: Pantheon Books, 2019.
Oliver, Lauren. Vanishing Girls. New York: HarperCollins, 2016.
O’Nan, Stewart. Songs for the Missing. New York: Penguin, 2009.
Ondaatje, Michael. In the Skin of a Lion. New York: Knopf Doubleday, 1997.
—. Anil’s Ghost. New York: Vintage, 2001.
Pamuk, Orhan. The Black Book. New York: Vintage, 2006.
Park, David. The Truth Commissioner. New York: Bloomsbury, 2009.
Partnoy, Alicia. The Little School. Jersey City, NJ: Cleis Press, 1998.
Perec, Georges. A Void. Boston: Verba Mundi, 2005.
Picoult, Jodi. Leaving Time. New York: Ballantine, 2015.
Piper, Evelyn. Bunny Lake is Missing. New York: Feminist Press, 2004.
Pirandello, Luigi. The Late Mattia Pascal. New York: New York Review of Books, 2004.
Phillips, Julia. Disappearing Earth. New York: Vintage, 2020.
Porter, Andrew. In Between Days. New York: Vintage, 2013.
Pritchett, V.S. Dead Man Leading. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984.
Rao, Shobha. Girls Burn Brighter. New York: Flatiron Books, 2019.
Rising, Lawrence. She Who Was Helena Cass. New York: George H. Doran, 1920.
Rose, Heather. The Butterfly Man. St. Lucia, Australia: University of Queensland Press, 2005.
Ryan, Erin Kate. Quantum Girl Theory. New York: Random House, 2023.
Semple, Maria. Where’d You Go, Bernadette. New York: Back Bay Books, 2013.
Simenon, Georges. Monsieur Monde Vanishes. New York: New York Review of Books, 2004.
Simpson, Mona. The Lost Father. New York: Vintage, 1993.
Spark, Muriel. Aiding and Abetting. New York: Penguin, 2000.
Thornton, Lawrence. Imagining Argentina. New York: Bantam, 1991.
—. Naming the Sprits. New York: Bantam, 1996.
Traba, Marta. Mothers and Shadows. Columbia, LA: Readers International, 2017.
Tyler, Anne. Searching for Caleb. New York: Vintage, 1996.
—. Ladder of Years. New York: Vintage, 1996.
Valenzuela, Luisa. He Who Searches. Dallas: Dalkey Archive, 1987.
—. The Censors: A Bilingual Selection of Stories. Evanston, IL: Curbstone Press, 1995.
Viel, Tanguy. The Disappearance of Jim Sullivan. Dallas: Dalkey Archive, 2021.
Walker, Alice. The Color Purple. New York: Penguin, 2019.
Watson, Randall. No Evil is Wide. Lake Dallas, TX: Madville Press, 2023.
White, Ethel Lina. The Lady Vanishes. Hertfordshire, UK: Wordsworth Classics, 2015.
Wieland, Liza. A Watch of Nightingales. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2008.
Wylie, Philip. The Disappearance. Lincoln, NE: Bison Books, 2004.
Yocum, Katy. Three Ways to Disappear. Ashland, OR: Ashland Creek Press, 2019.
Zola, Émile. Buried Alive. New York: Warren Press, 1911.
Memoirs
Bonner, Betsy. The Book of Atlantis Black: The Search for a Sister Gone Missing. New York: Tin House Books, 2020.
Brierley, Saroo. A Long Way Home. New York: Berkeley Books, 2015.
Carlisle, Kelly Grey. We Are All Shipwrecks. Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks, 2018.
Conover, Sarah. Set Adrift: A Mystery and a Memoir – My Family’s Disappearance in the Bermuda Triangle. Gig Harbor, WA: 55 Fathoms, 2023.
Cumming, Laura. Five Days Gone: The Mystery of My Mother’s Disappearance as a Child. New York: Scribner’s, 2019.
Flook, Maria. My Sister Life. New York: Broadway Books, 1998.
Gwartney, Debra. Live Through This: A Mother’s Memoir of Runaway Daughters and Reclaimed Love. Boston: Mariner Books, 2010.
Harrison, Lindsay. Missing: A Memoir. New York: Scribner’s, 2014.
Kushner, David. Alligator Candy. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2017.
Lunday, Robert. Disequilibria: Meditations on Missingness. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2023.
Matar, Hisham. The Return: Fathers, Sons, and the Land in Between. New York: Random House, 2017.
—. A Month in Siena. New York: Random House, 2019.
O’Hagan, Andrew. The Missing. London: Picador, 1995.
Renner, James. True Crime Addict: How I Lost Myself in the Mysterious Disappearance of Maura Murray. New York: Picador, 2017.
Rotondi, Jessica Pearce. What We Inherit: A Secret War and a Family’s Search for Answers. Los Angeles: Unnamed Press, 2020.
Theory and Criticism
Abe, Kobo. The Frontier Within: Essays. New York: Columbia University Press, 2016.
Agamben, Giorgio. What is Real? Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2018.
Baudrillard, Jean. The Ecstasy of Communication. New York: Semiotext(e), 1988.
—. Simulacra and Simulation. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1994.
—. The Perfect Crime. New York: Verso, 2008.
—. Why Hasn’t Everything Already Disappeared? Chicago: Seagull Books, 2009.
—. America. New York: Verso, 2010.
Bishop, Karen Elizabeth. The Space of Disappearance: A Narrative Commons in the Ruins of Argentine State Terror. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2021.
Edkins, Jenny. Ithaca: Missing: Persons and Politics. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2016.
Gordon, Avery. Ghostly Matters: Haunting and the Sociological Imagination. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008.
Heller-Roazen, Daniel. Absentees: On Variously Missing Persons. New York: Zone Books, 2021.
Pitt, Kristin E. Body, Nation, and Narrative in the Americas. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Rabaté, Dominique. Désirs de disparaître: Une traversée du roman français contemporain. Rimouski, Québec: Tangence éditeur, 2015.
Taylor, Diana. Disappearing Acts: Spectacles of Gender and Nationalism in Argentina’s Dirty War. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1997.
Virilio, Paul. The Aesthetics of Disappearance. Los Angeles: Semiotext(e), 2009.
Other Nonfiction
Agosin, Marjorie. Women of Smoke. Trenton, NJ: Red Sea Press, 1989.
Allen, Michael J. Until the Last Man Comes Home: POWs, MIAs, and the Unending Vietnam War. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2009.
Ayers, Captain John H. Missing Men: The Story Of The Missing Persons Bureau Of The New York Police Department. New York: Garden City Publishing, 1932.
Baldwin, James. The Evidence of Things Not Seen. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1985.
Begg, Paul. Into Thin Air: People Who Disappear. London: David & Charles, 1979.
Biaggio, Maryka. The Point of Vanishing: Based on the True Story of Author Barbara Follett and Her Mysterious Disappearance. Mechanicsburg, PA: Sunbury Press, 2021.
Billman, Jon. The Cold Vanish: Seeking the Missing in North America’s Wilderness. New York: Grand Central, 2021.
Boss, Pauline. Ambiguous Loss: Learning to Live with Unresolved Grief. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000.
Bowden, Mark. The Last Stone: Masterpiece of Criminal Interrogation. Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2020.
Boynton, Robert S. Invitation-Only Zone. New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 2017.
Brown, Ethan. Murder in the Bayou: Who Killed the Women Known as the Jeff Davis 8? New York: Scribner’s, 2018.
Busch, Akiko. How to Disappear: Notes on Invisibility in a Time of Transparency. New York: Penguin, 2020.
Carlson, Eric Stener. I Remember Julia: Voices of the Disappeared. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1996.
Coleman, Jonathan. Exit the Rainmaker. New York: Dell, 1989.
Congram, Derek. Missing Persons: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on the Disappeared. Toronto: Canadian Scholars’ Press, 2016.
Davis, Natalie Zemon. The Return of Martin Guerre. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1984.
Denton, Sally. The Bluegrass Conspiracy: An Inside Story of Power, Greed, Drugs & Murder. New York: Doubleday, 1990.
Dimock, Brad. Sunk Without a Sound: The Tragic Colorado River Honeymoon of Glen and Bessie Hyde. Flagstaff, AZ: Fretwater Press, 2001.
Dumas, Alexandre (Père). The Crimes of the Marquise de Brinvilliers [“Martin Guerre”] London: Methuen, 1908.
Dyer, Geoff. The Missing of the Somme. New York: Vintage, 2011.
El-Hai, Jack. The Lost Brothers: A Family’s Decades-Long Search. Ann Arbor: University of Minnesota Press, 2019.
Ellison, Mary. Missing from Home. London: Pan Books, 1964.
Fischer, Paul. The Man Who Invented Motion Pictures: A True Tale of Obsession, Murder, and the Movies. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2022.
Fleming, Peter. Brazilian Adventure. London: Alden Press, 1933.
Fradkin, Philip L. Everett Ruess: His Short Life, Mysterious Death, and Astonishing Afterlife. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011.
Franklin, H. Bruce. M.I.A. or Mythmaking in America: How and Why Belief in Live POWs Has Possessed a Nation. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1993.
Gibler, John. I Couldn’t Even Imagine That They Would Kill Us: An Oral History of the Attacks Against the Students of Ayotzinapa. San Francisco: City Lights Books, 2017.
Grann, David. The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon. New York: Vintage, 2010.
Greene, Karen Shalev and Lilian Alys. Missing Persons: A Handbook of Research. New York: Routledge, 2017.
Halber, Deborah. The Skeleton Crew: How Amateur Sleuths are Solving America’s Coldest Cases. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2015.
Hepburn, Stephanie and Rita James Simon. Human Trafficking Around the World: Hidden in Plain Sight. New York: Columbia University Press, 2013.
Howe, Nicholas. Not Without Peril. Boston: Appalachian Mountain Club, 2009.
Ling, Justin. Missing from the Village: The Story of Serial Killer Bruce McArthur, the Search for Justice, and the System That Failed Toronto’s Queer Community. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2022.
Magueijo, João. A Brilliant Darkness: The Extraordinary Life and Disappearance of Ettore Majorana, the Troubled Genius of the Nuclear Age. Boston: Basic Books, 2009.
Marnham, Patrick: Trail of Havoc: In the Steps of Lord Lucan. London: Penguin, 1987.
Mauger, Léna and Stéphane Remael. The Vanished: The “Evaporated People” of Japan in Stories and Photographs. New York: Skyhorse, 2014.
McDiarmid, Jessica. Highway of Tears: A True Story of Racism, Indifference, and the Pursuit of Justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. New York: Atria Books, 2019.
McGrath, Ben. Riverman: An American Odyssey. New York: Knopf Doubleday, 2023.
Morewitz, Stephen J. and Caroline Sturdy Colls. Handbook of Missing Persons. Berlin: Springer, 2018.
Murdoch, Sierra Crane. Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman’s Search for Justice in Indian Country. New York: Random House, 2021.
Nash, Robert Jay. Among the Missing. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1978.
Nickerson, Shelia. Disappearance: A Map. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1996.
Nolan, Rachel. Until I Find You: Disappeared Children and Coercive Adoptions in Guatemala. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2024.
Phillips, S. M. Famous Cases of Circumstantial Evidence. Boston: Estes & Lauriat, 1873.
Pratt, Bramwell. God’s Private Eye: The Fascinating Work of The Salvation Army Investigation Department. St. Albans, UK: Campfield Press, 1988.
Preitler, Barbara. Grief and Disappearance: Psychosocial Interventions. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2015.
Rawlence, Christopher. The Man Who Invented Motion Pictures: A True Tale of Obsession, Murder, and the Movies. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2022.
Recko, Corey. Murder on the White Sands: The Disappearance of Albert and Henry Fountain. Denton, TX: University of North Texas Press, 2007.
Reidel, James. Vanished Act: The Life and Art of Weldon Kees. Lincoln, NE: Bison Books, 2007.
Rich, Doris L. Amelia Earhart: A Biography. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Books, 1996.
Richmond, Doug. How to Disappear Completely and Never Be Found. Palms Springs, CA: Desert Publications, 1996.
Roberts, David. Finding Everett Ruess: The Life and Unsolved Disappearance of a Legendary Wilderness Explorer. New York: Crown, 2012.
Roberts, Sara Hawys and Leon Noakes. Withdrawn Traces: Searching for the Truth About Richey Manic. London: Virgin Books, 2019.
Ruddick, James. Lord Lucan: The Truth About the Century’s Most Celebrated Murder Mystery. London: Headline, 1994.
Salgado, Minoli. Twelve Cries from Home: In Search of Sri Lanka’s Disappeared. London: Repeater, 2022.
Sarasin, J. G. The Mystery of Martin Guerre. London: Hutchinson, 1934.
Saroyan, Aram. Genesis Angels: The Saga of Lew Welch & the Beat Generation. New York: William Morrow, 1979.
Sciascia, Leonardo. The Moro Affair: And the Mystery of Majorana. New York: New York Review of Books, 2004.
Sinclair, Iain, Ed. London: City of Disappearances. London: Hamish Hamilton, 2006.
Stegner, Wallace. Mormon Country [Everett Ruess]. Lincoln, NE: Bison Books, 2003.
Stewart, Erin. The Missing Among Us: Stories of Missing Persons and Those Left Behind. Sydney, Australia: NewSouth Books, 2021.
Smith, Laura. The Art of Vanishing. New York: Viking, 2018.
Thernstrom, Melanie. The Dead Girl. Berkeley: Counterpoint, 2014.
Thompson, Hunter S. Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Writing of Hunter S. Thompson [on Oscar Acosta]. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2012.
Tofel, Richard J. Vanishing Point: The Disappearance of Judge Crater, and the New York He Left Behind. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2004.
Tomalin, Nicholas and Ron Hall. The Strange Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst. New York: Stein and Day, 1985.
Villiers, Alan. Posted Missing: The Story of Ships Lost Without Trace in Recent Years. New York: Scribner’s, 1974.
Warren, William. Jim Thompson: the Unsolved Mystery. Singapore: Editions Didier Millet, 2014.
Williams, Richard. Missing: The Inside Story of the Salvation Army’s Missing Persons Department. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1969.
Willis, Graham Denyer. Keep the Bones Alive: Missing People and the Search for Life in Brazil. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2022.
Poetry
(This section is focused on contemporary collections in which disappearance is a recurrent theme.)
Agosin, Marjorie. An Absence of Shadows. Freedonia, NY: White Pine Press, 1998.
Baker, Aimée. Doe. Akron, OH: University of Akron Press, 2018.
Emanuel, Lynn. Transcript of the Disappearance, Exact and Diminishing. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2023.
Finkel, Donald. The Wake of the Electron. New York: Atheneum, 1987.
Franklin, Jennifer. If Some God Shakes Your House. New York: Four Way Books, 2023.
González, Rigoberto. Black Blossoms. New York: Four Way Books, 2011.
—. Unpeopled Eden. New York: Four Way Books, 2013.
—. The Book of Ruin. New York: Four Way Books, 2019.
—. To the Boy Who Was Night: Poems: Selected and New. New York: Four Way Books, 2023.
Goodfellow, Jessica. Whiteout. Fairbanks, AK: University of Alaska Press, 2017.
L’Esperance, Mari. The Darkened Temple. Lincoln, NE: Bison Books, 2008.
Lindenberg, Rebecca. Love, An Index. San Fransisco: McSweeney’s, 2012.
Malone, Erin. Site of Disappearance. Chevy Chase, MD: Ornithopter Press, 2023.
Perlongher, Nestor. Cadavers. Phoenix, AZ: Cardboard House Press, 2018.
Quintanilla, Octavio. If I Go Missing. Auston, TX: Slough Press, 2014.
Scofield, Greg. Witness, I Am. Gibsons, BC, Canada: Nightwood Editions, 2016.
Shearin, Faith. Telling the Bees: Poems. Nacogdoches, TX: Stephen F. Austin University Press, 2015.
Uriba, Sara. Antígona González. Los Angeles: Les Figues Press, 2016.
Zurita, Raúl. Purgatory. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009.
—. Song for His Disappeared Love. Notre Dame, IN: Action Books, 2010.
[11/20/2023]
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