Alexander Hopkins McDannald; Edward Humphrey; James E. Churchill.Americana Annual, 1980 (неопр.). — Grolier Interactive, Incorporated, 1980. — С. 383. — ISBN 978-0-7172-0211-9. «Because of Hart’s illness, Rodgers formed a new partnership in 1942 with Oscar Hammerstein II. Their first collaboration, Oklahoma! (1943), won a special Pulitzer Prize and ran on Broadway for five years. In 1945, Rodgers and Hammerstein …»;
Julia Rubiner.Contemporary Musicians: Profiles of the People in Music (англ.). — Gale / Cengage Learning, 1993. — P. 2014. — ISBN 978-0-8103-2217-2. «The partnership of Rodgers and Hammerstein became official after the death of Lorenz Hart, in 1943. They continued to develop the genre, incorporating music, songs, dance, and comedy into the action of the drama, producing classic after classic of the American theater, including Carousel, in 1945, South Pacific, in 1949, The King and I, in 1951, and The Sound of Music, in 1959.»
