Jabarkan Bibliografi dari John Killens

And Then We Heard the Thunder (1962), novel

Black Man's Burden (1965), essays

The Cotillion; or, One Good Bull Is Half the Herd (1971), novel

Great Gittin' Up Morning: A Biography of Denmark Vesey (1972)

A Man Ain't Nothin' But a Man: The Adventures of John Henry (1975)

The Great Black Russian: The Life and Times of Alexander Pushkin (1989)

Black Southern Voices: an anthology of fiction, poetry, drama, nonfiction, and critical essays (Meridian, 1992)

Adam, William, Afro-American Authors. Houghton Mifflin, 1972

Bloom, Harold, Modern Black American Fiction Writers. Chelsea House Publishers, 1995

Bolden, Tonya, Strong Men Keep Coming: the book of African American men. J. Wiley and Sons, 1999

Gilyard, Keith, John Oliver Killens: A Life of Black Literary Activism. University of Georgia Press, 2011. ISBN 978-0820340319.

Gilyard, Keith, Liberation Memories: The Rhetoric and Politics of John Oliver Killens. Wayne State University Press, 2003.