Sonny's Blues/Annotated Bibliography

• Stone, Caitlin (Oct 2013). "Lost and Found: The Fall of Grace in Sonny's Blues". The Explicator. 71 (4): 251–254. Stone explains the significance of the death of grace and how it relates to the brothers. Topics addressed include the symbolic associations of the Grace's death and the religious "a fall from grace" in Christian terminology.

Kim, Eui Young (2018). "The Sociology of the ghetto in James Baldwin's SONNY BLUES". The Explicator. 76 (3): 161–165. This literary criticism article explains the sociology of the ghetto in James Baldwin's Sonny Blues b Dempsey, Joan (2011). "Waiting for you: Beauford Delaney as James Baldwin's Inspiration for the character creole in "Sonny's Blues"". Obsidian. 12 (1): 60–78.This article of journal states that how creole inspired and help sonny to overcome from heroin. Creole is an artistic mentor and a father figure for sonny. Creole is very clearly the principal person who has taken sonny under his wings. It is because of playing piano that sonny can stay away from drugs. By the help of creole sonny takes the risk to become a jazz musician.