Her novel, "The Called and the Chosen", written as the diary of Sister Ursula Auberon, an enclosed nun at the Abbaye de la Sainte Croix, Framleghen, was published in 1957 by Farrar, Straus & Cudahy. The book followed the 1956 publication of "The Nun's Story", a novel by Kathryn Hulme, about the life of her companion Marie Louise Habets, a Belgian former nun. In 1965, Baldwin published her second autobiographical book, called "Goose in the Jungle. A Flight Round the World with Digressions".