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Stephen Sondheim
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Born: Stephen Joshua Sondheim, March 22, 1930, New York City
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Stephen Sondheimresearch resources in print (listed chronologically):
Max Wilk. They're Playing Our Song: Conversations with America's Classic Songwriters. New York and Stratford, CT: Easton Studio Press, 2008. (originally published 1973 as They're Playing Our Song: From Jerome Kern to Stephen Sondheim—The Stories behind the Words and Music of Two Generations) -- chapter on Sondheim
Stephen Sondheim. "Theater Lyrics." c. 1974. Publ. in Playwrights, lyricists, composers on theater. Ed. Otis L. Guernsey Jr. New York, Dodd, Mead & Co., 1964-74. (Sondheim comments on his own work.)
David Ewen. American Songwriters, An H. W. Wilson Biographical Dictionary. New York: The H. W. Wilson Co., 1987 (includes 146 bios of composers and lyricists). -- a wide selection of used copies is available at abebooks.com (entry, pp. 371-77).
Joe Nocera. "Hearing with the Heart." The New York Times, Nov. 7, 2010 (an article about the author's obsession with Sondheim's body of work, but in effect also a review of Finishing the Hat).
Paul Simon. "Isn't It Rich?" The New York Times Book Review, October 31, 2010 (review of Finishing the Hat).
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, An H. W. Wilson Biographical Dictionary. New York: The H. W. Wilson Co., 1987 (includes 146 bios of composers and lyricists). -- a wide selection of used copies is available at 
. Woodstock, NY: Overlook Press, 1987 (multiple and extended references to Sondheim).
New York: Routledge, 2006 (multiple references to Sondheim and his songs).
, New York: Routledge, 2006 (more or less a sequel to Wilder's, 
, New York: Random House, 2007 (paperback edition, 2008 -- three brief references to Sondheim)
, 2nd Ed., Scarecrow Press/Library of Congress, 2010.
New York: Alfred A Knoph, 2011.
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