Further Reading
- Additional coverage of Betts's life and career is contained in the following sources published by the Gale Group: Contemporary Authors, Vols. 13, 16; Contemporary Authors New Revision Series, Vols. 9, 66; Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vols. 3, 6, 28; Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 218; Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook, 1982.
- Brown, Dale W., "The Big Questions: An Interview with Doris Betts," The Christian Century 114, No. 27 (8 October 1997): 870–76. (Betts discusses the role of Christianity in her work.)
- Evans, Elizabeth, Doris Betts, New York: Twayne, 1997, 137 p. (Critical and biographical study.)
- Peden, William, "The Recent American Short Story," Sewanee Review 82, No. 4 (Fall 1974): 712–29. (Positive review of Beasts of the Southern Wild.)
- Stallings, Sylvia, "12 Prize-Winning Stories," New York Herald Tribune Book Review (30 May 1954): 6. (Provides a laudatory review of The Gentle Insurrection.)
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