For more on Anita Loos:
The Modernism Lab at Yale University: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Elyse Graham.
http://modernism.research.yale.edu/wiki/index.php/Gentlemen_Prefer_Blondes
Scroll down in this text file, and you’ll find some interesting press releases on Anita Loos, from her pre-Gentlemen Prefer Blondes days: http://www.public.asu.edu/~ialong/Taylor51.txt
Contemporary reviews of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: http://www.unz.org/Pub/LoosAnita-1925
Contemporary reviews of But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes: http://www.unz.org/Pub/LoosAnita-1928
For more on Janet Lewis:
“Janet Lewis and the Untranslatable Heart,” Los Angeles Times, Nov. 3, 1985.
http://articles.latimes.com/1985-11-03/books/bk-3799_1_janet-lewis
Richard Stern, “Janet Lewis,” at the Virginia Quarterly Review, Summer 1993
http://www.vqronline.org/articles/1993/summer/stern-janet-lewis/
Dick Davis, “Obituary: Janet Lewis,” at The Independent
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-janet-lewis-1191516.html
Larry McMurtry, “The Return of Janet Lewis,” New York Review of Books, June 11, 1998
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/1998/jun/11/the-return-of-janet-lewis/?pagination=false
“Janet Lewis, 99, Poet of Spirit and Keeper of the Hearth, Dies,” New York Times,
Robert McG. Thomas, Jr., Dec. 5, 1998
http://www.nytimes.com/1998/12/05/arts/janet-lewis-99-poet-of-spirit-and-keeper-of-the-hearth-dies.html
The Poetry Foundation: Janet Loxley Lewis
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/janet-loxley-lewis
“The Wife of Martin Guerre,” D.G. Myers on The Commonplace Blog
http://dgmyers.blogspot.com/2009/01/wife-of-martin-guerre.html
For more on William Maxwell:
- Charlie Rose interviews Maxwell in 1995
- My Favorite Poem – Maxwell discusses A.E. Housman’s translation of Horace’s ode, “Diffugere Nives”
- Terry Gross’ 1995 NPR interview with William Maxwell
- “The Wisest, Kindest Voice: A Celebration of the Work and Life of William Maxwell,” 2008 National Book Foundation video with Christopher Carduff, Benjamin Cheever, Edward Hirsch, Daniel Menaker and Stewart O’Nan
- “Nearing 90,” reflections from William Maxwell in 1997 New York Times Magazine article
- “Welty v. Maxwell on autobiography in fiction” – on Maud Newton’s blog
- Library of America Honors Overshadowed Writer – 2008 article on NPR, including transcript of Maxwell’s “All Things Considered” interview with Jacki Lyden