[1] He is best known for his 1971 novel Happy as the Grass was Green, an important work of American Mennonite literature, which was adapted into the film Hazel's People.
[2] Good is the author of several books including Happy as the Grass was Green (1971), These People Mine (1973), Today Pop Goes Home (1993), Going Places (1994), Surviving Failure (and a Few Successes) (2018), and Christine’s Turn (2022).
He has also written numerous children's books and some works of non-fiction.
[3] In 2018, he started a new publishing company Walnut Street Books.
[4] Good grew up in Lancaster, Pennsylvania and earned a BA at Eastern Mennonite College, now Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisonburg, Virginia and a MDiv at Union Theological Seminary (New York City) in 1972.