Soul of a People: Writing America's Story
Books - General Sources
Banks, Ann. First-Person America. New York: W. W. Norton, 1991.
Bold, Christine. The WPA Guides, Mapping America. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1999.
Botkin, B.A.A., and Jerrold Hirsch, eds. Lay My Burden Down: A Folk History of Slavery. University of North Carolina Press, 1987.
Brewer, Jeutonne P. The Federal Writers' Project: A Bibliography. Scarecrow Press, 1994.
Carter, Ennis. Posters for the People: The Art of the WPA. Quirk Books, 2008.
Fleischhauer, Carl, and Beverly W. Brannan, eds. Documenting America, 1935-1943. University of California Press, 1988.
Flynn, Kathryn, and Richard Polese. The New Deal: A 75th Anniversary Celebration. Gibbs Smith Publishers, 2008.
Hirsch, Jerrold. Portrait of America: A Cultural History of the Federal Writers' Project. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006.
Hobson, Archie. Remembering America: A Sampler of the WPA American Guide Series. Columbia University Press, 1985.
Mangione, Jerre. The Dream and the Deal: The Federal Writers' Project, 1935-1943. Boston: Little, Brown, 1972; also Syracuse University Press, 1996.
Meltzer, Milton. Violins and Shovels: The WPA Arts Projects. Delacorte Press, 1976.
Penkower, Monty Noam. The Federal Writers' Project: A Study in Government Patronage of the Arts. University of Illinois Press, 1977.
Taylor, David. Soul of a People: The WPA Writers' Project Uncovers Depression America. New Jersey: Wiley & Sons, 2009. Note: This book contains an Appendix with an extensive array of resources for readers and travelers.
Taylor, Nick. American-Made: The Enduring Legacy of the WPA: When FDR Put the Nation to Work. New York: Bantam, 2008.
Weiland, Matt, and Sean Wilsey, eds. State by State: A Panoramic Portrait of America. HarperCollins, 2008.
Weisberger, Bernard, ed. The WPA Guide to America: The Best of 1930s America as Seen by the Federal Writers' Project. New York: Pantheon, 1985.
Willard, Pat. America Eats: On the Road with the WPA. New York: Bloomsbury, 2008.
Books & Articles - Regional Selections
Blakey, George. Creating a Hoosier Self-Portrait: The Federal Writers' Project in Indiana, 1935-1942. Indiana University Press, 2005.
Bold, Christine. Writers, Plumbers, and Anarchists: The WPA Writers' Project in Massachusetts. University of Massachusetts Press, 2006
Cohen, David Steven. America, the Dream of My Life: Selections from the Federal Writers' Project's New Jersey Ethnic Survey. Rutgers University Press, 1990.
Findlay, James A. and Margaret Bing. "Touring Florida Through the Federal Writers' Project." Broward County Public Library web site.
Hill, Gerald, ed. Oneida Lives: Long Lost Voices of the Wisconsin Oneidas. Bison Books, 2005.
Hurston, Zora Neale. Go Gator and Muddy the Water: Writings by Zora Neale Hurston from the Federal Writers' Project, edited by Pamela Bordelon. Norton, 1999.
Kennedy, Stetson. "Florida Folklife and the WPA: An Introduction." Florida Memory Project, Florida State Archives.
Louisiana Writers' Project. Gumbo Ya-Ya: A Collection of Louisiana Folk Tales. Pelican Publishing, 1987.
Nebraska Writers' Project. Mister, You've Got Yourself a Horse: Tales of Old Time Horse Trading. University of Nebraska Press, 1987.
"Places Captured in Time, But Not Frozen There." Article about the Federal Writers' Project Washington state guide and what the state is like seven decades later.
Montana Writers' Project. An Ornery Bunch: Tales and Anecdotes Collected by the WPA Montana Writers Project. Falcon, 1999.
Terrill, Tom E., with Jerrold Hirsch. Such As Us: Southern Voices of the Thirties. University of North Carolina Press, 1987.
Women's Tales from the New Mexico WPA: La Diabla a Pie, edited by Tey Diana Rebolledo and Maria Teresa Marquez. Arte Publico Press, 2000.
Articles and Essays
Botkin, B.A. "We Called it 'Living Lore.'" New York Folklore Quarterly, Fall 1958.
www.nyfolklore.org/pubs/voic27-3-4/living.html. B.A. Botkin was the FWP folklore consultant and editor.
Brinkley, Douglas. "The Depression's WPA Had Its Own 'Write stuff.'" Houston Chronicle, August 5, 2003.
Brinkley, Douglas. "Unmasking Writers of the W.P.A.," New York Times
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9905E7D7123EF931A3575BC0A9659C8B63
Mangione, Jerre. "Federal Writers' Project." New York Times, May 18, 1979, p. 2.
Taylor, David A. "A Noble and Absurd Undertaking" (The Federal Writers' Project gave Depression-era writers a second chance...and America its first comprehensive self-portrait). Smithsonian Magazine, March 2000.
