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- 1 2 The Best Loved Poems of the American People (1936) ed. Hazel Felleman, Doubleday, p.v
- ↑ Biography, Penguin-Random House
- ↑ Best Loved Poems of the American People
- 1 2 3 4 Obituary of Felleman "Hazel Felleman, Queries Editor For Times Book Review, Dead". New York Times
- ↑ Penguin profile