Peck, Richard. Love and Death at the Mall: Teaching and Writing for the Literate Young. New York: Delacorte, 1994. Peck, as a former teacher, discusses his aims and methods as a writer of adolescent novels.

——. "People of the Word." Arkansas Libraries 38 (December 1981): 13-16.

Peck describes his concern about coming of age through a separation from peer expectations and describes his work learning about adolescence from adolescents.

——. "Richard Peck." In Something About the Author. Vol. 2. Edited by Adele Sarkissian. Detroit: Gale, 1986.

Peck's narrative essay on his origins is beautifully written; he describes in moving detail how settings and people from his past have influenced the genesis and development of each of his novels.

Stanek, Lou Willett. "Just Listening: Interviews with Six Adolescent Novelists." Arizona English Bulletin 18 (April 1976): 23-38. Contains some interesting observations by Peck on narrative point of view and topics for...