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Farber, M.A. "U.S. Joins Search for Convict Writer", July 21, 1981, "Killing Clouds Ex-Convict Writer's New Life", July 26, 1981, "Freedom for Convict-Author: Complex and Conflicting Tale", August 17, 1981, "The Detective vs. the Fugitive: How Jack Abbott Was Found", October 11, 1981, The New YorkTimes.  

Fairbanks, Phil. "Inmate Whose Letters Led to Best Selling Book Found Dead", February 11, 2002, The BuffaloNews.    

Fallon, Beth. "The Abbott Trial: A Gathering of Evils", January 18, 1982, The New YorkDaily News.    

Goldman, David. "The Writer and the Prisoner: Norman Mailer and Jack Henry" Abbott, September 2003, Biography Magazine.  

Goodman, Walter. "Literary Criminals", July 24, 1983, The New York Times.  

Hanrahan, Thomas and Singleton, Don. "Might Help Again, Mailer Says", January 23, 1982, The New YorkDaily News. 

Hirschhorn, Clive (1979). The Warner Brothers Story. New York City, NY: Crown Publishers Inc.  

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Nash, Jay Robert (1995) Bloodletters and Badmen. New York City, NY: M. Evans and Company Inc.   

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