Bibliography

Tanner, Terence A. Frank Waters: A Bibliography with Relevant Selections from His Correspondence. Glenwood: Meyerbooks, 1983, 356 p.

Listing of Waters's writings supplemented with Waters's comments from his letters.

Biography

Manchester, John. "Frank Waters." South Dakota Review 15, No. 3 (Autumn 1977): 73-80.

Traces Waters's life and philosophy as revealed in his books and in notes Waters provided to Manchester.

Criticism

Adams, Charles L. "The Genesis of Flight from Fiesta." Western American Literature XXII, No. 3 (November 1987); 195-200.

Explores the literary and historical background of the character Inocencio and the circumstances surrounding the writing of Waters's 1986 novel.

――――――. Review of The Woman at Otowi Crossing, by Frank Waters. Western American Literature XXIII, No. 1 (May 1988): 45-50.

Favorable assessment of the revised version of Waters's 1966 novel.

Blackburn, Alexander, "Frank Waters's The Lizard Woman and the Emergence of the Dawn Man." Western American Literature XXIV, No. 2 (August 1989): 121-36.

Discusses Waters's first novel as an expression of an archetype and as the earliest occurrence of Waters's major themes of unity, duality, and emergence. The essay also includes some of Waters's reflections on the novel.

――――――. A Sunrise Brighter Still: The Visionary Novels of Frank Waters. Athens: Swallow Press/Ohio University Press, 1991, 171 p.

Critical analysis of Waters's major fiction, exploring recurring themes, elements of myth and allegory, and origins in the archetypal imagination. Blackburn argues that Waters has "brought the beauty of great art to the truth of creative mythology and has perceived the possibilities of which our minds, operating in society, are capable," and that his best novels therefore deserve to stand among classics by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Mark Twain, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and William Faulkner.

Bucco, Martin. Frank Waters, Austin: Steck-Vaughn, 1969, 44 p.

Concise introduction to Waters providing comments on his style.

Grigg, Quay. "The Kachina Characters of Frank Waters' Novels." South Dakota Review 11, No. 1 (Spring 1973): 6-16.

Discusses Waters's fictional characters as they embody the characteristics of Native American kachinas, or "respected spirits" of the land and its living creatures.

Lyon, Thomas J. Frank Waters. New York: Twayne, 1973, 166 p.

In-depth study of Waters's writings, assessing his contributions as a novelist and philosopher. Lyon hails him as a member of the first rank of Western regional writers.

Milton, John R. "Intuition and the Dance of Life: Frank Waters." In his The Novel of the American West, pp. 264-97. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1980.

Explores Waters's interest in Jungian psychology and Native American spiritualism, noting their impact on the content and form of his works.

South Dakota Review, 15, No. 3 (Autumn 1977).

Special issue devoted to Waters.

Interviews

Milton, John R., ed. Conversations with Frank Waters. Chicago: Swallow Press, 1971, 90 p.

Edited transcripts of several televised 1964 interviews with Waters, touching on his writings, knowledge of Native-American life, and views on contemporary culture.