- Turn Loose the Wild Tigers: A Novel of the Chinese Revolution (1986)
- Time Among Strangers: A Novel of Paris after the Terror (1990)
- The Green Pope: Benedict IX and the Scandal of the Papacy (1998)
Plays:
- Turn Loose the Wild Tigers (adapted from his novel, premiered in Boston in 1985)
- Ancestral Voices (premiered in Atlanta in 1989)
- My Sister, Life Goes On (premiered in San Francisco in 1997)
- No One Writes Me Love Songs Anymore (premiered in Los Angeles in 2007)