Dr. Lucy Daniels

My Works


Short Stories and Articles:

"Christmas Journey" in Carolina Quarterly, Fall 1957
"Half a Lavender Ribbon" in Virginia Quarterly, Winter 1958
"Blackout in Prince Edward County" in Coronet Magazine, August 1960
"Virtuoso" in Confrontation, 2004
"Leftovers" in Pembroke Magazine, Spring 2005
"Christmas Cake" in Emrys Journal, May 2006
"Geraniums" in NC Literary Review, Summer 2007
"Heartless" in The Awakenings Review, Summer 2007
"Making Connections" in Westview: A Journal of Western Oklahoma, Fall 2007.

photograph by Jocelyn Filley

Dreaming Your Way to Creative Freedom
What do dreams mean? Can they help us understand who and where we are? Recognizing shortcomings in creative work and becoming able to observe in dreams the unconscious conflicts which require such shortcomings is the crux of this personal but universal primer for increasing creative and emotional freedom and power.

The Eyes of the Father
This is a love story with epic dimensions in which opposites are persistent factors: black vs. white, tradition vs. progress, slavery vs. freedom, people vs. art, life on earth vs. life hereafter. And as in real life, human strength and frailty interact with fate to produce a mixture of sadness and joy in which one person's tragedy sometimes results in victory for another.


With a Woman's Voice: A Writer's Struggle for Emotional Freedom
After struggling as a young woman with anorexia and a crushing sense of inadequacy, Lucy Daniels emerged from years in a mental hospital to become a bestselling novelist. In her memoir, With a Woman's Voice, Daniels reveals the strength and insights she gained from her psychoanalysis and the attainment of her doctorate in clinical psychology.

photograph by Jocelyn Filley

High on a Hill
High on a Hill is a fictional account of life in a mental hospital.

Caleb, My Son
Caleb, My Son is the story of a father-son conflict associated with the Brown decision to end segregation. It was a best-seller in the U.S. in 1957, published in several other countries and earned Daniels a Guggenheim Fellowship in literature.

Selected Works

Non-fiction
Dreaming Your Way to Creative Freedom
A two-mirror liberation process, sharing the specific outcome of Lucy Daniels' 30-year struggle against writer's block and offering a road map for others to use on their personal journey.
Fiction
The Eyes of the Father
A compelling story about people controlled by the past.
High on a Hill
High on a Hill was Daniels' Guggenheim project and was published in 1961.
Caleb, My Son
Caleb, My Son, published in 1956, was called "a remarkable novel" by the New York Times.
Memoir
With a Woman's Voice: A Writer's Struggle for Emotional Freedom
In this long-awaited memoir, award-winning novelist Lucy Daniels provides a gripping account of an emotionally distressed childhood that led to chronic anorexia and a long-standing writer's block. Here, free at last from past demons and the unreasonable demands of a socially powerful family, Daniels tells her life story with insight, humor, and compassion.