Biographies and Additional Background Material in Russian:
Bunina, Vera, Zhizn’ Bunina: 1870–1906 (The Life of Bunin; Paris, [s.n.], 1958)
Kuznetsova, Galina, Grasskii dnevnik (The Grasse Diary; Washington: Victor Kamkin, 1967)
Grin, Militsa (ed.), Ustami Buninykh (As Spoken by the Bunins; Frankfurt/Main: Posev, 1977–82; in 3 vols)
Bakhrakh, Alexander, Bunin v khalate (Bunin in a Dressing Gown; Bayville: Tovarishchestvo zarubezhnykh pisatelei, 1979)
Burlaka, D.K. (ed.), I.A. Bunin: Pro et contra: Lichnost i tvorchestvo Ivana Bunina v otsenke russkikh i zarubezhnykh myslitelei i issledovatelei: Antologiia (St Petersburg: Izdatel’stvo Russkogo Khristianskogo gumanitarnogo instituta, 2001)
Baboreko, Alexander, Bunin: Zhizneopisanie (The Life of Bunin; Moscow: Molodaia gvardiia, 2004)
Biographies and Additional Background Material in English:
Heywood, Anthony J., Catalogue of the I.A. Bunin, V.N. Bunina, L.F. Zurov and E.M. Lopatina Collections (Leeds: Leeds University Press, 2000)
Kryzytski, Serge, The Works of Ivan Bunin (The Hague: Mouton, 1971)
Woodward, James B., Ivan Bunin: A Study of His Fiction (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1980)
Connolly, Julian W., Ivan Bunin (Boston, MA: Twayne Publishers, 1982)
Marullo, Thomas Gaiton, (ed.), Ivan Bunin: Russian Requiem, 1885–1920: A Portrait from Letters, Diaries and Fiction (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1993)
Marullo, Thomas Gaiton, (ed.), Ivan Bunin: From the Other Shore, 1920–1933: A Portrait from Letters, Diaries and Fiction (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1995)
Marullo, Thomas Gaiton, (ed.), Ivan Bunin: The Twilight of Emigré Russia, 1934–1953: A Portrait from Letters, Diaries and Memoirs (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2002)
Zweers, Alexander F., The Narratology of the Autobiography: An Analysis of the Literary Devices Employed in Ivan Bunin’s The Life of Arsen’ev (New York: Peter Lang, 1997)