Biography

Binion, Rudolph. Frau Lou: Nietzsche's Wayward Disciple. Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press, 1968, 587 p.

Comprehensive biography.

Martin, Biddy. Woman and Modernity: The (Life)Styles of Lou Andreas-Salomé. Ithaca, N. Y.: Cornell University Press, 1991, 250 p.

Critical biography with a feminist orientation.

Sorell, Walter. "Lou Andreas-Salomé: Mind and Body." In his Three Women: Lives of Sex and Genius, pp. 131-213. New York: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1975.

Offers a portrait of Andreas-Salomé as the mesmerizing and seductive muse of Nietzsche, Rilke, and Freud.

Criticism

Livingstone, Angela. Lou Andreas-Salomé. London: Gordon Fraser Gallery, 1984, 255 p.

Biographical and critical study.

Matarasso, Michel. "Anthropoanalysis and the Biographical Approach: Lou Andreas-Salomé." Diogenes, No. 139 (Fall 1987): 127-166.

Analyzes the complex public persona of Andreas-Salomé, whose life "incarnates for many the image of modern woman."

Pfeiffer, Ernst, ed. Sigmund Freud and Lou Andreas-Salomé: Letters. Translated by William and Elaine Robson-Scott. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1972, 244 p.

Correspondence between Andreas-Salomé and Sigmund Freud that highlights their extensive debate on the fundamental concepts of psychoanalysis.

Additional coverage of Andreas-Salomé's life and career is contained in the following source published by Gale Research: Dictiomary of Literary Biogrphy, Vol. 66.