Bibliography
Books about Sondheim and his work
Stephen Banfield. (1994). Sondheim’s Broadway musicals. University of Michigan Press.
Ted Chapin. (2005). Everything was possible: The birth of the musical Follies. Applause Books.
Paul Ford. (2022). Lord knows, at least I was there: Working with Stephen Sondheim. Moreclacke Publishing.
Ben Francis. (2023). Careful the spell you cast: How Stephen Sondheim extended the range of the American musical. Methuen Drama.
Joanne Gordon. (1992). Art isn’t easy: The theater of Stephen Sondheim. Da Capo Press.
Joanne Gordon (Ed.). (1999). Stephen Sondheim: A casebook. Routledge.
Robert Gordon (Ed.) (2015). The Oxford handbook of Sondheim Studies. Oxford University Press.
Sandor Goodhart (Ed.). (1999). Reading Stephen Sondheim: A collection of critical essays. Routledge.
Martin Gottfried. (1993). Sondheim. Abrams.
Mark Eden Horowitz. (2010). Sondheim on Music: Minor details and major decisions. Rowman & Littlefield.
Barry Joseph. (2025). Matching minds with Sondheim: The puzzles and games of the Broadway legend. Bloomsbury Academic.
James Lapine. (2021). Putting it together: How Stephen Sondheim and I created Sunday in the Park with George. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
D. T. Max. (2022). Finale: Late conversations with Stephen Sondheim. Harper.
Robert L. McLaughlin. (2016). Stephen Sondheim and the reinvention of the American musical. University Press of Mississippi.
Scott Miller. (2022). He never did anything twice: Deconstructing Stephen Sondheim.
Ethan Mordden. (2015). On Sondheim: An opinionated guide. Oxford University Press.
Rick Pender. (2025). Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd: Behind the bloody musical masterpiece. Bloomsbury.
Paul Salsini. (2022). Sondheim & me: Revealing a musical genius. Bancroft Press.
Richard Schoch. (2024). How Sondheim can change your life. Atria Books.
Meryle Secrest. (2011). Stephen Sondheim: A life. Vintage.
W. Anthony Sheppard (Ed.). (2022). Sondheim in our time and his. Oxford University Press.
Stephen M. Silverman. (2023). Sondheim: His life, his shows, his legacy. Black Dog & Leventhal.
Stephen Sondheim. (2010). Finishing the hat: Collected lyrics (1954–1981) with attendant comments, principles, heresies, grudges, whines, and anecdotes. Knopf.
Stephen Sondheim. (2011). Look, I made a hat: Collected lyrics (1981–2011) with attendant comments, amplifications, dogmas, harangues, digressions, anecdotes, and miscellany. Knopf.
Steve Swayne. (2007). How Sondheim found his sound. University of Michigan Press.
Craig Zadan. (1974). Sondheim & company. Macmillan.