Reference works

Zola in his study

List of Biographies and reference books or articles available in English. If you know of others, please let us know.

Free eBooks are also available in numerous formats from Project Gutenberg for these works:

• Emile Zola by William Dean Howells
• Chapter (In the Workshop of Zola) in:
  Ivory Apes and Peacocks by James Huneker
• With Zola in England, A Story of Exile by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly (1899)
• A Zola Dictionary (The Characters Of The Rougon-Macquart Novels Of Emile Zola) by J. G. Patterson

Other reference works:

• Emile Zola, An Introductory Study of his Novels by Angus Wilson (1952, London: Secker & Warburg)
• Émile Zola Novelist and Reformer, An Account of His Life and Work by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly (1904)
• Zola A Life by Frederick Brown (1995)
• Garden of Zola: Emile Zola and his Novels for English Readers by Graham King (1978, Barrie and Jenkins)
• The Cambridge Companion to Emile Zola, edited by Brian Nelson (2007, Cambridge Univ. Press)
• The Life and Times of Emile Zola by Frederic W. J. Hemmings (1977)
• Zola and His Time by Matthew Johnson (1928)

Internet Resources:

• The Émile Zola Society
• ArchiZ: Les site des archives Zola
• The Rougon-Macquart Novels of Emile Zola (for English-speaking Readers) by Jack J. Woehr
• Behold the Stars blog – contains many Zola reviews.