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- ↑ Peter Brooker and Andrew Thacker, The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines: Volume II, North America, 1894-1960 (2012), p. 521.
- ↑ Crawford, Meriah L. (April 7, 2011). "Ruby Altizer Roberts (1907–2004)". Encyclopedia Virginia . Virginia Foundation for the Humanities. Retrieved January 3, 2014.
