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- 1 2 Kathleen Drowne and Patrick Huber, The 1920s, American Popular Culture Through History, Westport, Connecticut / London: Greenwood, 2004, ISBN 0-313-32013-6, p. 278.
- ↑ Ted Powell, King Edward VIII: An American Life, Oxford: Oxford University, 2018, ISBN 978-0-19-251457-8, Fig. 6.6.
- 1 2 Taylor D. Littleton, The Color of Silver: William Spratling, His Life and Art, Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Louisiana State University, 2000, ISBN 9780807125335, p. 75.
- ↑ Review, "Other New Books", Theatre Arts Monthly, Volume 10, 1926, p. 138.
- ↑ Katherine Ann Porter, "Ay, Que Chamaco", New Republic, December 23, 1925, pp. 141–42, repr. Darlene Harbour Unrue, ed., This Strange, Old World and Other Book Reviews by Katherine Anne Porter, Athens, Georgia / London: University of Georgia, [1991], repr. 2008, ISBN 978-0-8203-3353-3, pp. 39–41.
- ↑ William Spratling, "Chronicle of a Friendship: William Faulkner in New Orleans", in: William Spratling and William Faulkner, Sherwood Anderson and Other Famous Creoles, [1926], Open Road Media, 2022, ISBN 9781504068154.
