Natalie Robins Books in Order

Robins’s poems explore mortality through grief, remembered experience and the recurring patterns of the natural world. The collection places awareness of death alongside nature’s continuing cycles, considering how the past remains present in human life.

Through interviews, diaries, letters and institutional records, Natalie Robins and Steven Aronson reconstruct the collapse of the wealthy Baekeland family. Their account follows Brooks, Barbara and their son Tony across an international social world marked by secrecy and violence.

Drawing on released FBI files and interviews, Natalie Robins investigates the bureau’s surveillance and intimidation of American writers. The account follows its efforts to police expression across decades, examining how political suspicion affected authors, journalists and readers.

Natalie Robins reconstructs the death of eighteen-year-old Libby Zion and her father’s campaign for answers. Interviews with family members, hospital staff and medical experts examine the disputed treatment, ensuing legal battles and broader questions about hospital supervision.

Following her diagnosis with lymphoma, Natalie Robins records the questions, fears and ordinary decisions that accompany treatment. Expanded from her magazine journal, the book traces how illness changes her relationships and her understanding of daily life.

Natalie Robins traces the history of homeopathy in America through its conflict with conventional medicine. At the center is physician and senator Royal Copeland, whose medical and political career helped shape the legal position of homeopathic remedies.

Using Diana Trilling’s archives, Natalie Robins reconstructs the critic’s intellectual career and private life. The biography examines her marriage to Lionel Trilling, contentious political positions and struggle to reconcile literary ambition with expectations surrounding marriage and motherhood.