Garfield, Leon. "An Evening with Leon Garfield." In One Ocean Touching: Papers from the First Pacific Rim Conference on Children's Literature, edited by Sheila A. Egoff. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow, 1979. Garfield explains how he develops a story, and he lists some writers he imitated in order to learn to write.

Holland, Philip. "Shades of the Prison House: The Fiction of Leon Garfield."

Children's Literature in Education 9 (Winter 1978): 159-172. This article examines individual works by Garfield, especially in terms of his major themes, style, and development as a writer.

Jones, Rhodri. "Leon Garfield" and "Postscript." In Good Writers for Young Readers, edited by Dennis Butts. St.

Albans, England: Hart-Davis, 1977.

These articles discuss Garfield's style, the influences on his writings and the importance of moral choice in his novels. Several specific books are discussed in detail, including BlackJack.

Natov, Roni. " 'Not the blackest of villains . . . not the...