Go to the LSU Libraries catalog to search for works written by and about John James Audubon. Some titles, as noted in the catalog records, are available in full-text online through a third party institutional source.
A complete guide to our holdings on Audubon is available here.
Selected works:
Audubon, John James. John James Audubon’s Journal of 1826: The Voyage to The Birds of America. Ed. Daniel Patterson. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2011.
Audubon, John James. The Missouri River Journals of John James Audubon. Ed. Daniel Patterson. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2016.
Blaugrund, Annette. The Watercolors for The Birds of America. New York: Villard Books, 1993.
Butler, Charles T. ed. Audubon's Last Wilderness Journey: The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America. London, UK : D Giles Limited ; Auburn, Alabama: Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art, Auburn University, 2018.
Corning, Howard, ed. Letters of John James Audubon, 1826-1840. Boston: The Club of Odd Volumes, 1930.
Davies, Jacqueline. The Boy Who Drew Birds: A Story of John James Audubon. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 2004.
Forkner, Ben, ed. Audubon on Louisiana: Selected Writings of John James Audubon. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2018.
Fries, Waldemar H. The Double Elephant Folio: The Story of Audubon's Birds of America. Amherst, Massachusetts: Zenaida Publishing, 2006.
Hart-Davis, Duff. Audubon's Elephant. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2003.
Heitman, Danny. A Summer of Birds: John James Audubon at Oakley House. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2008.
Heitman, Danny. "John James Audubon and the American Presidency." White House History 34 (Fall 2013): 44-533.
"John James Audubon, the Naturalist." The Illustrated Magazine of Art 3, no. 17 (1854): 305-07.
Lewis, Andrew. A Democracy of Facts: Natural History in the Early Republic. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011.
Lindsay, Debra. Maria Martin's World: Art & Science, Faith & Family in Audubon's America. Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, 2018.
Low, Susanne M. A Guide to Audubon's Birds of America: A Concordance Containing Current Names of the Birds, Plate Names with Descriptions of Plate Variants, a Description of the Bien Edition, and Corresponding Indexes. New Haven, Connecticut: William Reese Co. & Donald A. Heald, 2002.
Low, Susanne M. An Index and Guide to Audubon's Birds of America. New York: Abbeville Press, 1988.
Nobles, Gregory. John James Audubon: The Nature of the American Woodsman. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017.
Olson, Roberta J. M. "The ‘Early Birds’ of John James Audubon." Master Drawings 50, no. 4 (2012): 439-94.
Olson, Roberta J. M. Audubon's Aviary: The Original Watercolors for The Birds of America. New York: New-York Historical Society, 2012.
Partridge, Linda Dugan. “By the Book: Audubon and the Tradition of Ornithological Illustration.” Huntington Library Quarterly 59, no. 2/3 (1996): 269-301.
Prince, Sue Ann, ed. Stuffing Birds, Pressing Plants, Shaping Knowledge: Natural History in North America 1730-1860. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 2003.
Riely, Elizabeth Gawthrop. "John James Audubon's Tastes of America." Gastronomica 11, no. 2 (2011): 29-37.
Tyler, Ronnie C. Audubon's Great National Work: The Royal Octavo Edition of The Birds of America. Austin: W. Thomas Taylor, 1993.
Fiction
Brown, John Gregory. Audubon's Watch: A Novel. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2001.
Grolleau, Fabien and Jérémie Royer. Audubon: On the Wings of the World. London: Nobrow, 2016.
