Leslie Howard's Writings
- Leslie Howard Steiner: The Impersonation of Lord Dalton. In: The Penny Magazine, November 1913
- Leslie Howard Steiner: Deception : A Play in One Act. Staged at the Stanley Hall, Upper Norwood, London, December 20, 1913
- Leslie Howard: Anyhow They Mean Well. In: The New York Times, May 11, 1924
- Leslie Howard: The Intimate Diary of an Opening Night. In: The New Yorker, October 31, 1925
- Leslie Howard: Such Is Fame. In: The New Yorker, November 14, 1925
- Leslie Howard: The Broadway Première. In: Vanity Fair, August 1926
- Leslie Howard: Stage Struck. In: Vanity Fair, January 1927
- Leslie Howard: Rip van Howard. In: The New Yorker, March 5, 1927
- Leslie Howard: And Now the Radio Actor. In: Vanity Fair, April 1927
- Leslie Howard: Holy Hollywood. In: The New Yorker, May 14, 1927
- Leslie Howard: Poor Alice. In: Vanity Fair, July 1927
- Leslie Howard: Biography of an Anglo-American Child. In: Vanity Fair, September 1927
- Leslie Howard: The Poor Nut and the Modest Actor. In Theatre Magazine, September 1927
- Leslie Howard: Back-stage visitors: I--The Insurance Gentleman. In: The New Yorker, November 12, 1927
- Leslie Howard: Backstage Visitors: II-- The Process server. In: The New Yorker, November 19, 1927
- Leslie Howard: Back Stage Visitors; III--My Public. In: The New Yorker, November 26, 1927
- Leslie Howard: Schauspiel ohne Schauspieler. In: Die Komödie : Blätter des Deutschen Theaters, Jahrgang 15, Heft 2 (1928) (from Vanity Fair, March 1927, German translation by Elisabeth v. Schmidt-Pauli) (Italian translation: Dramma senza attori)
- Leslie Howard: One Man Theatre. In: Vanity Fair, January 1928
- Leslie Howard: The New Morality: One Act Play, in Nine Fifteen Review, produced at the Schubert Theatre, New Haven, January 21, 1930
- Leslie Howard: Out of A Blue Sky adapt. from Hans Chlumberg's play. Produced at the Booth Theatre, New York, February 8, 1930
- Leslie Howard: One Happy Family. In: Vanity Fair, July 1930
- Leslie Howard: Presenting the Impossible. In: Thatre Magazine, June 1930
- Leslie Howard: Murray Hill: a comedy in three acts. New York, Los Angeles, London : Samuel French, 1934
- Leslie Howard: Doug Jr. As I Know Him. In: Movie Mirror, April 1934
- Leslie Howard: Problems Of My Four New Parts, an interview with Hubert Cole. In: Film Weekly, July 20, 1934
- Leslie Howard: The Theatre Is the Only True Actor's Medium. In: The Screen Guild Magazine, December 1935
- Leslie Howard: Realists, all. In: Movie Makers, February 1935
- Leslie Howard: Romeo Talks!. In: Film Weekly, May 30, 1936
- Leslie Howard: Romeo. In: Picturegoer’s Supplement, Romeo and Juliet, March 27, 1937
- Leslie Howard: [as guest columnist for Walter Winchell], Dear Walter... In: Syracuse Journal, June 5, 1937
- Leslie Howard: Thespis - The Jade. In: Stage, July 1937
- Leslie Howard: Alias Mrs. Jones, a play by Leslie Howard. Produced at the Little Theatre, Bristol, October 1st, 1937 by the Rapier Players
- Leslie Howard: How I Shall Play Lawrence. Interview with J. Danvers Williams. In: Film Weekly, November 20, 1937
- Leslie Howard: How I Shall Play Nelson. Interview with J. Danvers Williams. In: Film Weekly, May 28, 1938
- Leslie Howard: Acting for the Screen. In: Cine-Technician, July-August, 1938
- Leslie Howard: The Problem of Better Films as I See It, interview with J. Danvers Williams. In: Film Weekly, September 17, 1938
- Leslie Howard: The Actor. In: Behind the Screen: How Films Are Made, ed. Stephen Watts. New York: Barker, 1938, p. 78 et seq.
- Leslie Howard: L'Acteur. In: La Technique du Film par 16 Artistes et Spécialistes de Hollywood, études réunies et présentées par Stephen Watts. Paris, Payot, 1939. p. 91 et seq.
- Leslie Howard: Men of Free France. In: The Living Age, October 1940 (from The Listener, BBC Organ)
- Leslie Howard, ed. by Ronald Howard.Trivial Fond Records. London: William Kimber & Co Ltd, 1982 (A choice of Leslie's writings, edited by his son)
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Dictionaries, Encyclopaedias, Repertories
- Howard, Leslie in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
- Howard, Leslie in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century
- Leslie Howard in Encyclopaedia Britannica
- Howard, Leslie in BFI Screenonline
- Howard Leslie in Encyclopaedia Universalis
- Howard, Leslie in Treccani.it Enciclopedia Italiana
- Howard, Leslie in Treccani.it Enciclopedia Italiana - 2° Aggiornamento (1948)
- Howard, Leslie in Historical Dictionary of British Film by Alan Barton, Steve Chibnall. Scarecrow Press, 2013
- Howard, Leslie in The A to Z of American Theatre: Modernism by James Fisher, Felicia Hardson Londre. Rowman & Littlefield, 2009
- Howard, Leslie in Historical Dictionary of Contemporary American Theater: 1930-2010 by James Fisher. Scarecrow Press, 2011
- Howard, Leslie in Hollywood and the Foreign Touch: A Dictionary of Foreign Filmmakers and Their Films from America, 1910-1995 by Harry Waldman. Scarecrow Press, 1996
- Howard, Leslie in The Film Encyclopaedia by Ephraim Katz, Ronald Dean Nolan. Harper Collins, 2013
- Howard, Leslie Steiner in Dizionario Larousse del Cinema Americano. Gremese, 1998
- Howard, Leslie in International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers. 2001 - via Encyclopedia.com
- Dunning, John. On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old Time Radio. Oxford University Press, 1998
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Biographies and Studies
Only significant studies are listed here. For short quotes from other books, see the Archives
- Aldgate, Anthony ; Richards, Jeffrey : Britain Can Take It: The British Cinema in the Second World War. Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 1994. [The Englishman's Englishman, p. 61-103]
- Bartel, Pauline. The Complete Gone With the Wind Trivia Book: The Movie and More. Taylor Trade Publishing, 2014 [Gone With the Wind]
- Bordman, Gerald. American Theatre : A Chronicle of Comedy and Drama, 1930-1969. Oxford University Press, 1996 [Leslie Howard on stage]
- Boyle, Charles. Another Hamlet: The Mystery of Leslie Howard. Forever Press, 2011 [Essay and screenplay supporting the theory of Leslie's presumed belief that Shakespeare was the Earl of Oxford]
- Brunel, Adrian. Nice Work: The Story of Thirty Years in British Film Production. London, Forbes Robertson, 1949 [A whole chapter deals with Leslie and the Minerva Films experience. Another chapter about the filming of The Gentle Sex]
- Burns, Jimmy. Papa Spy. Bloomsbury, 2011 [Contains a chapter about Leslie's journey to Portugal and Spain]
- Colvin, Ian. Flight 777: The Mystery Of Leslie Howard. London: Evans Brothers, 1957 [Ian Colvin's investigation about Leslie Howard's death]
- Eforgan, Estel. Leslie Howard: The Lost Actor. London: Vallentine Mitchell Publishers, 2010. 2nd revised edition, 2012 [Leslie's biography, with a strong accent on the last years of Leslie's life--almost half book deals with the years 1939-1943]
- Gargan, William. Why Me? An Autobiography. New York : Doubleday, 1969 [Some amusing anecdotes narrated by Leslie's pal]
- Howard, Leslie Ruth. A Quite Remarkable Father: A Biography of Leslie Howard. New York: Harcourt Brace and Co., 1959 [Leslie's biography, written by his daughter]
- Howard, Ronald. In Search of My Father: A Portrait of Leslie Howard.London: St. Martin's Press, 1984
[A biographical book written by Leslie's son, mainly focused on the last years of his father's live and on his death]
- Kelly, Andrew; Richards, Jeffrey; Pepper, James. Filming T. E. Lawrence: Korda's Lost Epic. I.B Tauris, 1997 [About Alexander Korda's project of a film on T.E. Lawrence war adventures. Leslie was a possible Lawrence]
- Leeming Tuttle, Esther. No Rocking Chair For Me. iUniverse, 2004 [Memories of Leslie and The Petrified Forest on stage; the author was in the cast]
- Mackenzie, S.P. The Battle of Britain on Screen: 'The Few' in British Film and Television Drama. Edinburgh University Press, 2007 [Contains a chapter on The First of the Few]
- Price Davis, Anita. The Margaret Mitchell Encyclopedia. McFarland, 2013 [Gone With the Wind; with a short bio of Leslie]
- Rattigan, Neil: This Is England: British Film and the People's War, 1939-1945. Madison, Farleigh Dickinson University Press, 2001 [The First of the Few, p. 52 et seq.]
- Rey Ximena, José. El Vuelo de Ibis. Madrid: Facta Ediciones SL, 2008 [about Leslie's last journey and death]
- Richards, Jeffrey. The Age of the Dream Palace: Cinema and Society in 1930s Britain. I.B. Tauris, 2010 [Chpt. 13: The Romantic Adventurer: Robert Donat and Leslie Howard, p. 225 et seq.]
- Richards, Jeffrey. Films and British National Identity: From Dickens to Dad's Army. Manchester University Press, 1997 [Leslie during the WW2]
- Van Neste, Dan."Leslie Howard: Unmasking the Pimpernel"
[This article was published in "Films of the Golden Age", issue 19, Winter 1999-2000, and is partially available online; the printed article, however, is much longer, with many photos and an extensive filmography]
- Shafer, Stephen C. British Popular Film 1929-1939: The Cinema of Reassurance. London: Routledge, 1997 [Contains a chapter on Pygmalion]
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Articles
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