Silvester, Christopher, ed. (2002). The Grove Book of Hollywood. New York: Grove Press. pp. 322–323. ISBN0802138780. Retrieved October 16, 2014. The Grove Book cites an anecdote from Inquisition in Eden in which Bessie jokingly boasts about inserting a small amount of uncredited dialogue, "subversive as all hell," into the closing scenes of the 1943 war film Action in the North Atlantic.
Bessie, Alvah (1965). Inquisition in Eden. New York: The Macmillan Company. p. 11. LCCN65-15558. my first wife and I were gracefully starving to death in Vermont and putting what food we had into the belly of our first son.
Mirbeau, Octave (1931). The Torture Garden. Translated by Bessie, Alvah C. New York: Claude Kendall. LCCN31010983.
Maran, René (1932). Batouala. Translated by Bessie, Alvah C. New York: Limited Editions Club. LCCN32032548.
Weglein, Jessica, ed. (October 21, 2023). "Alvah Bessie Papers". NYU Special Collections Finding Aids – via Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives.
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Louÿs, Pierre (1926). The Songs of Bilitis. Translated by Bessie, Alvah C. Illustrations by Willy Pogany. New York: Macy-Masius.
