Bogen has to her credit three serious novels of ideas: Klytaimnestra Who Stayed at Home (1980);[1] Bobe Mayse, A Tale of Washington Square (1993);[2] and the space satire Bagatelle·Guinevere by Felice Rothman (1995).

When a reviewer in Library Journal relegated Bogen's novel to the “popular fiction rack” with his own work, Gardner protested that Klytaimnestra merited a more respectful classification.

[8] In 1997, following her retirement as Professor of English from the College of Staten Island-CUNY, Bogen founded The Lark Ascending,[9] a performance group dedicated to bringing the “best that was thought and said in the past” to appreciative audiences.

Highlights were The Great Debate in Hell, a reading of Books I and II of John Milton’s Paradise Lost, and the complete Samson Agonistes.

Her husband is the nephew of Georg Schönberg, also a composer, whose musical works Bogen premiered through the years at The Lark Ascending events and has vigorously tried to promote in other ways.