Books
Her autobiography, To Dance on Sands: The Life and Art of Death Valley's Marta Becket, was published in 2007.
For the book Star Performance: The Story of the World's Great Ballerinas, by Walter Terry (Doubleday, 1956), Becket did 42 full-page illustrations, plus ten smaller illustrations for the glossary.
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