 White confided to "Something About the Author" that he liked stories that dealt with ordinary people who survived in the face of terrible hardship ... White's work is typically hero-driven, a characteristic that emerges most clearly in "Deathwatch", where the protagonist battles not only his human persecutor, but the impersonal harshness of the American desert ... "

Several of his novels were popularized in the school-based Scholastic book-sale program in the 1950s, 1960s, and early 1970s; now out of print, these 50-cent paperbacks currently sell for up to $50 on the Internet; rarer White hardbacks can fetch ten times that amount.In October 2008, a facsimile edition of "The Lion's Paw" was published by White's widow and her daughter.White died in 1990 as a result of head injuries suffered in a car accident.