[1] Her best-known novels were I’m Running Away From Home but I’m Not Allowed to Cross the Street: A Primer of Women’s Liberation, Heartbreak Hotel, Impatient With Desire and Searching for Tamsen Donner.

Her husband joined the NIMH (National Institute for Mental Health) as a researcher of child development, after his work in Europe with Jean Piaget; his best-known contribution is in the field of children and the development of morality.

Gabrielle Burton's understanding of psychology research created a solid team as a couple which influenced their decision to move to Buffalo, New York to actively pursue raising children as a parenting team.

[4] Upon her death, Gabrielle Burton was included in the Academy of Motion Pictures "In Memoriam" for the Oscars.

[5] Gabrielle Baker Burton died of pancreatic cancer in Venice, California on September 3, 2015, aged 76.