"Berry, James." In Contemporary Authors. Edited by Susan M. Trosky.

Detroit: Gale Research, 1992, pp. 3638. This provides little biographical information and consists mostly of highlights from Berry's books.

Bissoondath, Neil. New York Times Book Review (May 8, 1988): 30. Bissoondath finds the details of the stories in A Thief in the Village to be accurate.

Gillies, Eva. Times Literary Supplement (July 8, 1988): 765. Gillies admires the depiction of Jamaican life in A Thief in the Village.