Bruce-Novoa, Juan, Chicano Authors: Inquiry by Interview, University of Texas Press, 1980.

This work includes an interview with Rivera in which he explains that part of his motivation as an author was to document the strength and the suffering of the Chicano migrant workers and to give their story a spiritual dimension.

Lattin, Vernon E., Rolando Hinojosa, and Gary D. Keller, Tomás Rivera, 1935-1984, The Man and His Work, Bilingual Review/Press, 1988.

This collection features works by Rivera as well as poems written in his memory, scholarly contributions, drawings, and photographs.

Olivares, Julián, ed., International Studies in Honor of Tomás Rivera, Arte Público Press, 1986.

Olivares's text is a collection of seventeen essays on all aspects of Rivera's work and on Chicano and Hispanic literature in the United States.

Sommers, Joseph, "Interpreting Tomás Rivera," mModern Chicano Writers: A...