Abrahams, Cecil, ed., The Tragic Life, Bessie Head and Literature in Southern Africa, Africa World Press, Inc., 1990.
This is a collection of essays that explore Head's life and writing, including an essay on Head and southern African writing.
Eilersen, Gillian Stead, Bessie Head: Thunder behind Her Ears: Her Life and Writing, Portsmouth, N.H.: Heinemann, 1995.
This is a biography of Head that includes some discussion of her works.
Head, Bessie, A Gesture of Belonging: Letters from Bessie Head, 1965—1979, edited by Randolph Vigne, Heinemann, distributed in southern Africa for South African Writers/ Heinemann, 1991.
This collection of unexpurgated letters that Head wrote to her friend,.....
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