Pamela Ryder

• Feb-2026
• / Literary

A haunting reimagining of Billy the Kid -- myth, violence, and regret collide in a lyrical coming-of-age story woven with history, legend, and the omnipresence of birds. Daybreak Birdsong Always Wakes Him: The Lives of Billy the Kid by Pamela Ryder i...

• Sep-2017
• / General Fiction

Interconnected stories depicting the last years of a WWII bomber pilot, his relationship with his daughter as both child and adult, and his drift into infirmity and death. When life dwindles to its irrevocable conclusion, recollections are illuminate...

• Nov-2011
• / General Fiction

"Ryder's is the rare and wonderful prose that engages all five of the senses." -- Whiting Award winner Lydia Peele, author of Reasons for and Advantages of BreathingPamela Ryder's stories transport us into realms as varied as the language that tells ...

• Jan-2008
• / General Fiction

Explores the lives behind the headlines of the Lindbergh baby kidnapping, evoking anew the scope of tragedy through the vision of literary fiction.   It was called the crime of the century, and it was front-page news: the Lindbergh baby kidnappi...

• Feb-1984
• / Historical Romance

Stelle Lyford Dakin, numbed with grief, dreamed of her husband, her lost love. Still, she was tempted by forbidden passion. Prescott Farrar knew what he wanted -- and how to get it. But the real prize he wanted was not Stella, but her land. For benea...