Bianculli, David. Dictionary of Teleliteracy. New York: Continuum, 1996. Entries on Television Playhouse, Playhouse 90, and other golden-age anthologies.

Briley, Rebecca. You Can Go Home Again: The Focus on Family in the Works of Horton Foote. New York: Peter Lang, 1993. Based on Briley’s 1990 doctoral dissertation from the University of Kentucky, this study provides useful information about the importance of family in Foote’s plays. However, Briley was not able to obtain access to some important resources that are now available, and her work, though helpful, suffers somewhat from excessive reiteration of her thesis.

Hampton, Wilborn. Horton Foote: America’s Storyteller. New York: Free Press, 2009. As a friend of Foote and a New York Times theater critic, Hampton is able to shed light onto Foote’s life, from his beginnings in a small Texas town, to his success as a Broadway playwright. This book chroniclers his career through its highs and lows, and discusses prevalent themes in his works, such as race, wealth, and oppression.

Katz, Ephraim. The Film Encyclopedia. 3d ed. New York: HarperPerennial, 1998. Contains an entry on Foote’s movie career, with a complete listing of films.

Monaco, James, et al. The Movie Guide: A Comprehensive Alphabetical Listing of the Most Important Films Ever Made. New York: Perigee Books, 1992. Contains entries on To Kill a Mockingbird, Tender Mercies, and The Trip to Bountiful.

Montz, Charles, ed. 1986 Current Biography Yearbook. New York: H. H. Wilson, 1987. Extensive entry on Foote’s life and career.

Moore, Barbara, and David G. Yellin, eds. Horton Foote’s Three Trips to Bountiful. Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press, 1993. This work compares the alterations and revisions made in the successive versions of The Trip to Bountiful between the first 1953 version and the film version of 1985. Changes in the texts are set forth in a chart, and there is a useful bibliography.

O’Donnell, Monica M., ed. Contemporary Theatre, Film, and Television: A Continuation of Who’s Who in the Theater. Vol. 4. Detroit: Gale, 1987. Summary of Foote’s career.

Porter, Laurin R. “An Interview with Horton Foote.” Studies in American Drama, 1945-Present 6, no. 2 (1991): 177-194. A 1988 interview with Foote, covering his tastes in literature, his development and training as actor and playwright, and the background of The Orphans’ Home cycle. This interview gives the reader a good sense of Foote’s conversational style, his humor, and his modesty.

Wiley, Mason, and Damien Bona. Inside Oscar: The Unofficial History of the Academy Awards. 10th ed. New York: Ballantine Books, 1996. Chapters discuss Foote’s Oscar wins.

Wood, Gerald C. Horton Foote and the Theater of Intimacy. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1999. Wood argues that Foote’s dramas reflect his characters’ struggles against fear, struggles that are often made victorious by the achievement of a personal intimacy made possible by a spiritual feminine presence. Well written and persuasive, this work also includes a splendid bibliographical appendix of materials for those working on Foote’s plays, screenplays, and teleplays.

Wood, Gerald C., ed. Horton Foote: A Casebook. New York: Garland, 1998. Contains twelve articles by various critics, divided into three main categories: “Biographical/Contextual Essays,” “Perspectives on Style/Themes,” and “The Signature Theater Series.” Includes a chronology of Foote’s life, a bibliography of his works, an annotated critical biography, and an index.