(Compiled 2004)
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Butts, Leonard. The Novels of John Gardner: Making Life Art as a Moral Process. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1988.
Chavkin, Allan, ed. Conversations with John Gardner. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 1990.
Cowart, David. Arches & Light: The Fiction of John Gardner. Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois UP, 1983.
Ekelund, Bo Gustav. In the Pathless Forest: John Gardner’s Literary Project. Doctoral Thesis. Uppsala U. Uppsala, Sweden. 1995.
Henderson, Jeff. John Gardner: A Study of the Short Fiction. Boston: Twayne, 1990.
—. Thor’s Hammer: Essays on John Gardner. Conway: U of Central Arkansas P, 1985.
Howell, John M. John Gardner: A Bibliographical Profile. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1980.
—. Understanding John Gardner. Columbia: U of South Carolina P, 1993.
McWilliams, Dean. John Gardner. Twayne’s United States Author Ser. Boston: Twayne, 1990.
Mendez-Egle, Beatrice, ed. John Gardner: True Art, Moral Art. Living Author Series No. 5. Edinburg, Texas, 1983.
Morace, Robert A. John Gardner: An Annotated Secondary Bibliography. New York: Garland, 1984.
— and Kathryn VanSpanckeren, eds. John Gardner: Critical Perspectives. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1982.
Morris, Gregory L. A World of Order and Light: The Fiction of John Gardner. Athens: U of Georgia P, 1984.
Nutter, Ronald Grant. A Dream of Peace: Art and Death in the Fiction of John Gardner. Modern American Literature: New Approaches Vol. 9. New York: Peter Lang, 1997.
Silesky, Barry. John Gardner: Literary Outlaw. Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books, 2004.
Thornton, Susan. On Broken Glass: Loving and Losing John Gardner. New York: Carroll & Graf, 2000.
Winther, Per. The Art of John Gardner: Instruction and Exploration.Albany: State U of New York P, 1992.