Smith, Bud. "Ben Loory Interview", Hobart Pulp, May 28, 2018. Accessed March 6, 2021. "I grew up in a small town called Dover, which is about a half hour west of New York, off Route 46."
O'Dea, Colleen. "Young playwrights stage plots at workshop", Daily Record, November 14, 1985. Accessed March 21, 2022, via Newspapers.com. "'"I thought we could just take a story and turn it into a play, but this is a lot harder,' said Ben Loory, a ninth-grader from Dover High School, who wrote a play last week entitled 'A Viking Story Kind Of,' which he plans to submit to the statewide competition."