 Three years later, following several children's books, Shulman published her first adult novel, the bestselling "Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen" (Knopf, 1972), which examineed the contradictions and pressures on a young woman of the pre-feminist 1940s, '50s, and '60s, through the story of Sasha Davis from childhood through marriage and motherhood.Almost continuously in print, it was reissued in a 25th anniversary edition in 1997 by Penguin, a 35th anniversary "Feminist Classics" edition in 2007 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, and as an ebook in 2012 by Open Road.Her second novel, "Burning Questions" (Knopf, 1978), recreates the rise of the women's liberation movement and sets it in a historical context.