Murphy's The Great Fire (1995) resembles the research methods and writing style he used for the history of the 1888 blizzard.

Blizzards have been a frequent topic of children's literature. Fictional depictions of the 1888 blizzard include Marietta D. Moskin's, Day of the Blizzard (1978), which is set in New York City and tells how Katie went on an errand in the storm because her mother was sick. Carla Stevens's Anna, Grandpa, and the Big Storm (1982) is a book for younger readers in which the characters are stranded on elevated tracks.

Other children's novels about snow storms are Laura Ingalls Wilder's, The Long Winter (1953); Kathleen Duey's and K. A. Bale's, Blizzard, Estes Park, Colorado, 1886 (1998); E. J. Bird's The Blizzard of 1896 (1990); Susan Fleming's, Trapped in the Golden Flyer (1978); Phyllis Reynolds Naylor's, Blizzard's Wake (2002); Peg Kehret's, The Blizzard Disaster (1998); Liza Frenette's, Soft Shoulders (1998); and Eth Clifford's, Help! I'm a Prisoner...