Brooks, Bruce. "In Collaboration with My Characters." Horn Book 62 (January/February 1986): 38-40. Brooks explains how his characters sometimes dictate the directions of his plots.

"Bruce Books." In Children's Literature Review. Vol. 25. Edited by Gerard J. Senick. Detroit: Gale Research, 1991, pp. 16-26. A gathering of articles and reviews about Brooks's writings.

Commire, Anne. "Bruce Brooks." In Something About the Author. Vol. 53.

Detroit: Gale Research, 1988, p. 7. A short summary of Brooks's life.

Marcus, Leonard. "PW Interviews: Bruce Brooks." Publisher's Weekly 237 (July 27, 1990): 214-215. This is an interview in which Brooks explains how he came to write fiction.

McDonnell, Christine. "New Voices, New Visions: Bruce Brooks." Horn Book 63 (March/April 1987): 188191. Examines the first-person narrators and vivid imagery in The Moves Make the Man and Midnight Hour Encores and provides a few details about Brooks's life.