BIBLIOGRAPHY

Barber, John F. Richard Brautigan: An Annotated Bibliography. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, 1990, 236 p.

Detailed overview of primary and secondary works, annotated and organized by type. Also includes chronology and a brief biography.

Boyer, Jay. “Selected Bibliography.” In Richard Brautigan, pp. 51-2. Boise, Idaho: Boise State University, 1987.

Selected list of primary and secondary works.

BIOGRAPHIES

Abbot, Keith. Downstream from Trout Fishing in America: A Memoir of Richard Brautigan. Santa Barbara, Calif.: Capra Press, 1989, 174 p.

A readable, chronological account of the author's eighteen-year friendship with Brautigan.

Chénetier, Marc. Richard Brautigan. London: Methuen, 1983, 96 p.

Short biographical-critical study which stresses the self-referential and “metafictional” aspects of Brautigan's work.

“Fishing for Truth.” People Weekly 53, no. 23 (12 June 2000): 73.

Profile of Brautigan and his daughter Ianthe, also a writer.

Kerouac, Jan. Trainsong, pp. 154-57. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1988.

Account of a 1983 meeting with Brautigan in Amsterdam, written by the daughter of Jack Kerouac.

CRITICISM

“Blame It on Brautigan.” Harper's 281, no. 1684 (September 1990): 42-5.

Excerpts from the catalogue for the Brautigan Library of unpublished works in Burlington, Vermont—an institution suggested by a Brautigan novel.

Morton, Brian. “How Hippies Got Hooked on Trout Fishing in America.” The Times (London) Literary Supplement (16 November 1984): 12.

Discussion of Trout Fishing, In Watermelon Sugar, and The Tokyo-Montana Express, emphasizing that too many critics have incorrectly labelled Brautigan an ephemeral writer.

Schroeder, Michael L. “Rhetorical Depth or Psychological Aberration: The Strange Case of Richard Brautigan.” Mount Olive Review (spring 1989): 45-9.

Schroeder attempts to resolve the coexistence of gentleness and violence in Brautigan's In Watermelon Sugar, suggesting that Brautigan's own divided personality accounts for the tone of the book.

Wright, Lawrence. “The Life and Death of Richard Brautigan.” Rolling Stone (11 April 1985): 29ff.

Offers a memoir of Brautigan's life with some commentary on his works.

Additional coverage of Brautigan's life and career is contained in the following sources published by the Gale Group: Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction: Biography & Resources, Vol. 1; Contemporary Authors, Vols. 53-56, 113; Contemporary Authors New Revision Series, Vol. 34; Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vols. 1, 3, 5, 9, 12, 34, 42; Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vols. 2, 5, 206; Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook, 1980, 1984; DISCovering Authors Modules: Novelists; DISCovering Authors 3.0; Literature Resource Center; Major 20th-Century Writers, Ed. 1; Reference Guide to American Literature; St. James Guide to Fantasy Writers; and Something about the Author, Vol. 56.