Whistle Stop is a seamy tale of the Veeches, a shiftless family living in a whistle-stop town near Detroit.
The novel, depicting incest, violence, and containing much more vulgar language than was usual at the time, was published the next year by Random House.
It was made into a movie in 1947 starring Ida Lupino and Robert Alda, with the title changed to The Man I Love.
While at the University of Michigan she had met and married a prolific young writer, Hubert Skidmore, who published six novels before he was 30.
After Wolff's death, the manuscript for Sudden Rain, which had been kept safely in her refrigerator for the last thirty years of her life, was published (along with re-issues of Whistle Stop and Night Shift) to much acclaim.