Nonfiction

A SUMMER WORLD: The Attempt to Build a Jewish Eden in the Catskills, from the Days of the Ghetto to the Rise and Decline of the Borscht Belt (1989)

THE LAST EMPIRE: De Beers, Diamonds, and the World (1995)

THE ESSENTIAL GROUCHO: Writings by, for, and about Groucho Marx (2000)

GROUCHO: The Life and Times of Julius Henry Marx (2001)

STARDUST LOST: The Triumph, Tragedy, and Mishugas of the Yiddish Theater in America (2006)

BALL OF FIRE: The Tumultuous Life and Comic Art of Lucille Ball (2007)

THE VOODOO THAT THEY DID SO WELL: The Wizards Who Invented the New York Stage (2007)

SOMEBODY: The Reckless Life and Remarkable Career of Marlon Brando (2008)

JOURNAL OF THE PLAGUE YEARS (2012)

TOUGH WITHOUT A GUN: The Life and Extraordinary Afterlife of Humphrey Bogart (2012)

Fiction

FEAR ITSELF (1955)

THE EIGHTH SIN (1978)

THE INTERNATIONAL GARAGE SALE (2012)

THE ESKIMO HUNTS IN NEW YORK (2012)

THE ESKIMO HUNTS IN MIAMI (2013)