He wrote ten books between 1951 and 1982: "The True Believer" (1951), "The Passionate State of Mind" (1955), "The Ordeal of Change" (1963), "The Temper of Our Time" (collected magazine articles, 1967), "Working and Thinking on the Waterfront" (journal, 1969), "First Things, Last Things" (collected essays, 1971), "Reflections on the Human Condition" (1973), "In Our Time" (1976), "Before the Sabbath" (journal, 1979), "Between the Devil and the Dragon" (collected essays, 1982) and "Truth Imagined" (autobiography 1983, published posthumously)
