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My Left Foot For Further Reference

Donnelly, Cathleen. "Christy Brown." In Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 14: British Novelists Since 1960. Edited by Jay L. Halio. Detroit: Gale, 1982, pp.

147-50. Includes biographical and critical information about Brown and his work.

Kauffmann, Stanley. The New Republic (November 27, 1989). Review of the movie My Left Foot.

Lavery, David. "The Strange Text of My Left Foot." Literature-Film Quarterly (July 1993): 194-96. An unfavorable comparison of Brown's book to the film version, directed by Jim Sheridan.

Obituary of Christy Brown. Newsweek (September 21, 1981): 79.

Profile of Christy Brown. Contemporary Authors, New Revisions Series, vol. 72.

Detroit: Gale Group, 1999, pp. 126-29.

Overview of Brown's life and work.