By the time her father died in 1924, Caspary was fully supporting her mother, who was impressed that her daughter could pound money out of a typewriter. She moved to Greenwich Village in New York as "Dance Lovers Magazine"'s new editor, achieving a Bohemian lifestyle. Here she met lifelong friend and collaborator Samuel Ornitz, then editor of "Radio Lovers Magazine". Once again leaving a job to write her own material, Caspary wrote her first published novel "Ladies and Gents" which was not be published for two years due to a publisher's delay. When her mother fell ill, she took still another job writing a "Charm and Beauty" correspondence course. While living in Greenwich Village she was inspired to write "The White Girl", published in January 1929. Its plot is about a Southern black woman who moves North and passes as white. The reviews were better than she had hoped and some people speculated that it was written by a black woman who was indeed passing.