Berthrong, John H. Concerning Creativity: A Comparison of Chu Hsi, Whitehead, and Neville. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998. Berthrong employs the philosophies of Neville and Chu Hsi to offer a useful criticism of Whitehead’s notions on God, world, and their relatedness.

Jones, Judith A. Intensity: An Essay in Whiteheadian Ontology. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1998. Jones offers an exacting analysis of Whitehead’s metaphysical system. Aimed at graduate-level readers who are familiar with Whitehead’s work.

Kraus, Elizabeth M. The Metaphysics of Experience: A Companion to Whitehead’s Process and Reality. 2d ed. New York: Fordham University Press, 1998. An excellent guide to Whitehead’s Process and Reality.

Kuntz, Paul Grimely. Alfred North Whitehead. Boston: Twayne, 1984. A clearly written and brief volume that provides an introduction to Alfred North Whitehead’s thought.

Lowe, Victor. Alfred North Whitehead: The Man and His Work. Vol. 1, 1861-1910. Vol. 2, 1910-1947. Baltimore, Md.: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985. The fullest available account of Whitehead’s life is found in these volumes. The first covers his life through his tenure at Cambridge. The second and more recent volume chronicles his life in London and at Harvard until his death. Lowe was a student of Whitehead and is an eminent authority on his work.

Lowe, Victor. Understanding Whitehead. Baltimore, Md.: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1962. A collection of papers on Whitehead’s thought in a volume aimed at the reader with little or no prior acquaintance with Whitehead’s philosophy. Lowe tries to show what Whitehead’s philosophy is about and why it is unique.

Rapp, Friedrich, and Reiner Wiehl. Whitehead’s Metaphysics of Creativity. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1990. This book takes a critical look at Whitehead’s metaphysics. The authors see Whitehead’s speculative philosophy as going far beyond anything considered in contemporary analytic philosophy.

Ross, Stephen David. Perspective in Whitehead’s Metaphysics. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1983. By elevating the role of perspective in Whitehead’s thought, Ross attempts to eliminate many of the difficulties in Whitehead’s philosophical system.

Russell, Bertrand. The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell: 1872-1914. Boston: Little Brown, 1951. Valuable for its account of the writing of Principia Mathematica, even though it is related from Russell’s somewhat biased point of view.

Schilpp, Paul Arthur, ed. The Philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead. 1941. 2d ed. New York: Tudor, 1951. A collection of critical essays on Whitehead that includes Whitehead’s autobiographical sketch and Lowe’s insightful essay “The Development of Whitehead’s Philosophy.” Contains a complete bibliography of Whitehead’s works.