In her fifties, Fejes traveled more around Interior Alaska, following the Yukon and Tanana Rivers to experience and paint village life among the Athabascan people. She stayed with many old friends from Fairbanks, and with their friends and families, sketching, and recording her thoughts. They resulted in a second book – Villagers, from Random House in 1981. A last book – a memoir – was called Cold Starry Night, published by Epicenter Press in 1996.

Of her writing, Fejes said, “I work on each book six years. I try to make it as beautiful as I can. That’s how the first book evolved. You start with one chapter and you don’t finish. You just keep going and going. And that’s what I did. I’m a hard worker. I used to have a writing cabin; a log cabin with a pole ceiling. I liked that little log cabin with the wood fire, you know. And that’s where I did a lot of writing.

Publications:

People of the Noatak, Alfred A. Knopf, 1966
Enuk My Son, Pantheon Books, 1969
The Villagers, Epicenter Press, 1981
People of the Noatak, Volcano Press, 1994
Cold Starry Night, Epicenter Press, 1996