Two Lists of Single Author Journals

They Are Difficult to Find

I have rambled on about single author periodicals in many posts and this will be the fourth in a row about that subject. It will be the last one. My few readers will be relieved, but should any accidental visitor stumble upon them, I am sure they will be useful. I say "sure" because finding them is difficult.

To demonstrate the difficulty in finding single author journals as a category (i.e. all of them) I will present first, the result I found after conducting another search for them. Given that the words "author(s)" and "journal(s)" yield a large number of unrelated "hits" one might find the following single author journals listed in Wikipedia, under: "List of Academic Journals About Specific Authors." I will say right away that not all such journals are "academic" and, to indicate that the list is hundreds of titles short of being complete, I provide a list of single author journals published currently by just one university press. It is still the case that the best reference source is an old one and it remains the starting point for any future researcher: Author Newsletters and Journals : An International Annotated Bibliography of Serial Publications Concerned With the Life and Works of Individual Authors, by Margaret C. Patterson.

Before the lists, here are some brief remarks which, along with my other posts, may be useful for anyone who chooses to work on this subject or look for these periodicals.

-That there is an academic industry devoted to single intellectuals/authors should not be surprising. There are also many periodicals devoted to popular authors.

- There are entire courses dedicated to one author and there are conferences held on their behalf, but some writers are seen to merit more attention and given it in serial publications.

- Retiring academics are sometimes honoured by a Festschrift so single author journals can be regarded as simply continually published Festschriften. - Not all single author journals are about single authors. Some include others who are in some way closely related. - One is likely find them mentioned only in bibliographies or when a new one comes along and an advertisement is produced in a publication such as the TLS. I spotted one a while back about The Journal of the Sylvia Townsend Warner Society and I learned recently that the Arnold Bennett Society publishes a 40+ page newsletter three times a year. They often appear on lists when they die.

- The market for such serials is small and even university libraries will usually have only those devoted to major figures (Shakespeare) or those demanded by a zealous faculty member.

- And again to demonstrate how hard they are to locate, there is no way to find out how many of these journals your favourite university library has.

The Internet is likely to result in a decline in the number of single author journals in printed form. There is, however, unlikely to be a decrease in the number of individuals who remain dedicated to their own favourite author.

         LIST OF ACADEMIC JOURNALS ABOUT SPECIFIC AUTHORS
   This list is found in Wikipedia along with this brief statement: "The following is a list of notable academic journals and magazines that are devoted to the study of specific authors and philosophers. Some of the journals are not currently active."
   Links are provided in some cases and some go to an entry for the journal in Wikipedia. There are more than 66 since some authors rate more than one journal, e.g., Dickens(3) Hegel(3), Shakespeare(3). The subjects range from, fiction, politics (Lincoln), and religion to philosophy and the geographic coverage is broad, e.g. C.L.R. James (Trinidad). Women are included: Cather, Dickinson, Rand, and some journals are about more than one author, e..g the Brontes and The Inklings. The Acorn, is listed next to Gandhi and King "since it explores philosophical issues related to non-violence in theory and practice, with a focus on the work of M. K. Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr." Fitzgerald and Hemingway also share a journal. Although these people have their own journal, I am willing to bet there are names you will not recognize. That the list is only a partial one is illustrated by the next list which is from just one press.

1. Hannah Arendt. Arendt Studies

2. Aristotle. Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society

3. Augustine of Hippo. Augustinian Studies; Augustinianum

4. Jane Austen. Persuasions; Jane Austen Annual

5. Samuel Beckett. Journal of Beckett Studies; Samuel Beckett Today

6. George Berkeley. Berkeley Studies

7. Brontë family. Brontë Studies

8. Willa Cather. Willa Cather Newsletter & Review

9. Gilbert Keith Chesterton. The Chesterton Review

10. Joseph Conrad. The Conradian

11. Gilles Deleuze. Deleuze and Guattari Studies

12. Jacques Derrida. Derrida Today

13. Charles Dickens. Dickens Quarterly; Dickens Studies Annual; The Dickensian

14. James Dickey. James Dickey Review

15. Emily Dickinson. The Emily Dickinson Journal

16. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Baker Street Journal

17. T. S. Eliot. T. S. Eliot Studies Annual

18. Philip José Farmer. Farmerphile: The Magazine of Philip José Farmer

19. William Faulkner. The Faulkner Journal

20. F. Scott Fitzgerald. The F. Scott Fitzgerald Review; Fitzgerald/Hemingway Annual

21. Theodor Fontane. Fontane Blätter

22. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. The Acorn

23. Robert Graves. Gravesiana

24. Graham Greene.Graham Greene Studies

25. Félix Guattari. Deleuze and Guattari Studies

26. H. Rider Haggard. Haggard Journal

27. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. Hegel Bulletin; Hegel-Jahrbuch; The Owl of Minerva

28. Martin Heidegger. Heidegger Studies

29. Ernest Hemingway. Hemingway Review; Fitzgerald/Hemingway Annual

30. David Hume. Hume Studies

31. Edmund Husserl. Husserl Studies

32. The Inklings. Journal of Inklings Studies; VII: Journal of the Marion E. Wade Center; Mythlore [not about an individual, but an Oxford discussion group.]

33. C. L. R. James. The CLR James Journal

34. Henry James. The Henry James Review

35. Ben Jonson Ben. Jonson Journal

36. James Joyce. James Joyce Quarterly

37. Franz Kafka. Journal of the Kafka Society of America

38. Immanuel Kant. Kant Yearbook; Kant-Studien; Kantian Review

39. Søren Kierkegaard. Kierkegaard Studies Yearbook; Kierkegaard Studies Monograph Series

40. D. H. Lawrence. D. H. Lawrence Review

41. Martin Luther King Jr. The Acorn

42. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. The Leibniz Review; Studia Leibnitiana

43. Emmanuel Levinas. Levinas Studies

44. C. S. Lewis. Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal; VII: Journal of the Marion E. Wade Center.

45. Abraham Lincoln. The Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association

46. Bernard Lonergan. The Lonergan Review

47. Pierre Loti. Bulletin de l'Association internationale des amis de Pierre Loti

48. Thomas Mann. Thomas Mann Jahrbuch (in German)

49. Cormac McCarthy. The Cormac McCarthy Journal

50. Herman Melville. Leviathan

51. Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Chiasmi International

52. Vladimir Nabokov. Nabokov Studies

53. Friedrich Nietzsche. New Nietzsche Studies; The Journal of Nietzsche Studies

54. Paul the Apostle. Pauline Studies; Journal for the Study of Paul and His Letters

55. Edgar Allan Poe. Poe Studies: History, Theory, Interpretation

56. Marcel Proust. Marcel Proust Bulletin

57. Ayn Rand. The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies

58. Philip Roth. Philip Roth Studies

59. Jean-Paul Sartre. Sartre Studies International

60. William Shakespeare. Shakespeare Bulletin; Shakespeare Quarterly; The Shakespeare Yearbook

61. George Bernard Shaw. SHAW: The Annual of Bernard Shaw Studies

62. Wallace Stevens. The Wallace Stevens Journal

63. J. R. R. Tolkien. Tolkien Studies; Journal of Tolkien Research; Mallorn; VII: Journal of the Marion E. Wade Center; Quettar

64. Giambattista Vico. New Vico Studies

65. Virginia Woolf. Virginia Woolf Bulletin

66. Slavoj Žižek. International Journal of Žižek Studies

LIST OF SINGLE AUTHOR JOURNALS FROM PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS This list was constructed from the journals listed at PSU Press in 2025. There is no category for these single author journals. I simply took the ones I identified on the list of PSU journals. Other journals in this category would be found at other university press websites. For example, the University of Chicago Press publishes, Spencer Studies and The Wordsworth Circle.

1. The Arthur Miller Journal
2. Bishop–Lowell Studies
3. The Chaucer Review: A Journal of Medieval Studies and Literary Criticism
4. The Cormac McCarthy Journal
5. Dickens Studies Annual: Essays on Victorian Fiction
6. The Edgar Allan Poe Review
7. Edith Wharton Review
8. The Eugene O'Neill Review
9. The F. Scott Fitzgerald Review
10. George Eliot—George Henry Lewes Studies
11. The Harold Pinter Review: Essays on Contemporary Drama
12. The Langston Hughes Review
13. The Mark Twain Annual
14. Milton Studies
15. Nathaniel Hawthorne Review
16. SHAW: The Journal of Bernard Shaw Studies
17. Steinbeck Review
18. The Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats [about more than one author.]
19. Thornton Wilder Journal
20. Wesley and Methodist Studies
21. William Carlos Williams Review     

   If you are interested in the class of single author journals, Patterson's

Author Newsletters and Journals : An International Annotated Bibliography of Serial Publications Concerned With the Life and Works of Individual Authors, is still the place to begin. If you want to take on a large research project to update that work, you will have a lot of work to do. Some of the other related posts in MM will be useful and since this is my last mention of this subject, here is one short piece I was unable to examine: "One Man's Meat: Societies and Journals Devoted to a Single Author," William White, American Book Collector, 1957, 8(3), p.22. 
  To use a word that may be found in one of Zane Grey's books, or journals about him, I will now say adios to this subject.