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Sophie Tucker, Some of These Days: The Autobiography of Sophie Tucker (Doubleday, Doran, and Co, 1945); available on the Internet Archive.
Ann Borden, "Sophie Tucker," Encyclopedia of Jewish Women, Jewish Women's Archive.
Maria De Simone, "Sophie Tucker, Racial Hybridity and Interracial Relations in American Vaudeville," Theatre Research International Volume 44, Issue 2 (July 2019) , pp. 153-170.
Armond Fields, Sophie Tucker: First Lady of Show Business (McFarland, 2003)
William Kremer, "Sophie Tucker: Everybody Loves a Fat Girl," BBC World Service (8 February 2016).
Pamela Brown Lavitt, "First of the Red Hot Mamas: 'Coon Shouting' and the Jewish Ziegfield Girl," American Jewish History Volume 87, no. 4 (December 1999), pp. 253-290.
Lauren Rebecca Sklaroff, Red Hot Mama: The Life of Sophie Tucker (University of Texas Press, 2018)
"Sophie Tucker: Hartford's Red-Hot Mama," Grating the Nutmeg: The Podcast of Connecticut History, Episode 101 (August 30, 2020).