Derleth, August, Still Small Voice: The Biography of Zona Gale, D. Appleton-Century Company, 1940.

This in-depth biography, while more anecdotal than critical, provides an interesting look into Gale's life and the literary times in which she lived. It also includes excerpts from Gale's writing, including her poetry; other writers on Gale's work; Gale's unfin-ished autobiography; a selected bibliography; and photographs.

Nettels, Elsa, "Edith Wharton's Correspondence with Zona Gale: 'An Elder's Warm Admiration and Interest,"' in

Resources for American Literary Study, Vol. 24, No. 2, 1998, pp. 207-34.

Wharton and Gale corresponded with thoughts about each other's writing, and Wharton criticized the stark style employed in Miss Lulu Bett. In this article, Nettels investigates the helpful literary relationship between the two writers.

Williams, Deborah Lindsay, Not in Sisterhood: Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, Zona Gale, and the Politics of Female Authorship, St. Martin's Press, 2001.

Williams investigates the transition in the early...