Dictionary of Literary Biography (REF PS 21 .D5) eg, volume 50: Afro-American Writers before the Harlem Renaissance or volume 51: Afro-American Writers from the Harlem Renaissance to 1940
Contemporary Literary Criticism (REF PN 771 C62)
Masterplots, 4th Edition (REF PN 44 .M33 2011) eg. The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man in Vol. 1, page 382-385)
Magill's Liteary Annual (PN 44 .M42)
The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Multiethnic American Literature (REF PS 153 ,M56 G74 2005)
Black Literature Criticism: Classic and Emerging Authors since 1950 (REF PS 153 .N5 B556 2008)
African American Writers (REF PS 153 .N5 A344 2001)