Possible Clues:

• After first half of month, everyone's back for work in library
• Steinbeck's 'Of Mice and Men,' e.g
• Longish short story, maybe
• Literary effort a woman read after thirty days
• Short work made of some material star collected
• Book Vauxhall to cover short distance
• "Heart of Darkness," for one
• “Animal Farm,” e.g
• Month taken over Fitzgerald story of no great length
• One v all represented in creative work?