Further Reading
- Gross, Terry. "Interview with Marijane Meaker." Fresh Air, June 19, 2003.
- Parks, Joy. "The Book That Sparked the Fire." Review of the new edition of Spring Fire, a 1952 novel by Marijane Meaker, writing as Vin Packer.
- Meeker, Martin. Contacts Desired: Gay and Lesbian Communications and Community, 1940s-1970s. University of Chicago Press, 2006.
- Meaker, Marijane. Introduction. Spring Fire. Written by Vin Packer. Cleis Press, 2004.
- A summary of a joint talk given by Marijane Meaker and Ann Bannon in June 2004
- A biography of Meaker, pertaining to her young adult books
- Breen, Jon L.: The Novels of Vin Packer, in: Murder Off the Rack: Critical Studies of Ten Paperback Masters, ed. by Jon L. Breen and Martin Harry Greenberg, Metuchen, N.J., London 1989, 55-69.
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