Books:
By Joe Orton:
The Complete Plays, Grove Press, 1990
The Orton Diaries, Edited by John Lahr, Harper & Row, 1986
Head to Toe: A Novel & Up Against It: A Screenplay for the Beatles, Da Capo Press, 1998
With Kenneth Halliwell:
Lord Cucumber & The Boy Hairdresser, Methuen, 2001
Other:
Prick Up Your Ears: The Biography of Joe Orton, John Lahr, Knopf, 1978
Because We’re Queers: The Life and Crimes of Joe Orton and Kenneth Haliwell, Simon Shepherd,1989. Gay Men’s Press
I Had It in Me, Leonie Orton, Quirky Press, 2016
Unspeakable: A Life Beyond Sexual Morality, Rachel Hope Cleves, Univeristy of Chicago Press, 2020
Interviews:
Richard Curson Smith, London, March 28, 2022
Simon Shepherd, London, March 28, 2022
Darren Murphy & Nico Rao Pimparé, London, March 29, 2022
Rachel Hope Cleves, Remote, April 12, 2022
John Lahr, London, April 27, 2022
Leonie Orton Barnett, Remote, May 26, 2022
Emma Parker, Remote, August 15, 2022
Articles:
The Gorilla in the Roses, Hugh Saker, Daily Mirror, May 16, 1962
Ruined Art Books, Unattributed, London Press, May 18, 1962
Joe Has a Colourful Way with Words, Jane Gaskell, Daily Sketch, November 30,1966
Loot Man in Double Death, Unattributed, Evening Standard, August 9th, 1967
Author of Hit Play Murdered by Friend, Roger Todd and Harold Whittall, Daily Mirror, August 10, 1967
£100,000 Loot Author Found Dead, Harry Longmuir, Daily Mail, August 10, 1967
Joe Orton, Master Mickey Taker, Don Short, Daily Mirror, August 10, 1967
Jealousy Theory in Playwright’s Murder, Brian SIlk and Peter Burden, Daily Sketch, August 10,1967
Beatle Music at Joe Orton Cremation, Daily Telegraph, August 19, 1967
Orton Murder Hammer Attack Frenzy, William White, Evening Standard, September 4, 1967
How Joe Orton was Murdered, Evening News, September 4, 1967
Loot Man’s WIll May Be Scrapped by Inquest, Bernard Falk, Daily Mirror, September 5, 1967
Crisis in the Life of Joe Orton’s Flatmate, Islington Gazette, September 8, 1967
Loot Author’s £20,000 Goes to His Father, Daily Mail, November 3, 1968
Price’ is Right for London, Harold Hobson, Christian Science Monitor, March 19, 1969
The Life and Death of Joe Orton, James Fox, The Sunday Times, November 22, 1970
Crimes of Passion, Unattributed, Gay News # 152, 1978
The Bizarre Life and Death of Genius Joe, William Rankine, The News of the World, October 1, 1978
Joe Orton: The Man Who Died of Success, JW Lambert, The Sunday Times, October 8, 1978
The Orton Collection, Islington Gutter Press, April 1981
Entertaining Mr. Orton, Obituary: Margaret Ramsay, David Hare, September 6, 1981
Deface Workers, Christopher Hawtree, Tatler, May 1984
The Importance of Being Joe, Edmund White, The Sunday Times, November 23, 1986
Brief Encounters, Paul Bailey, The Observer, November 9, 1986
The Cold Eye of Joe Orton, Hanif Kureishi, The Guardian, November 7, 1986
Orton’s Cottage Industry, Richard Rayner, Time Out, November 12, 1986
Black Comedy, Unattributed, Vanity Fair, April, 1987
The Fall of an Angry Man, Nicholas de Jongh, The Guardian, April 17, 1987
Orton Revealed, Jonathan Myerson, Drama, Vol.2, 1987
Awful Orton Lives Again, Baz Bamigboye, Daily Mail, April 30, 1987
A Guide to the Cottage Industry Inspired by Joe Orton, Miles Kington, Independent, April 1987
Those Awful Orton Diaries, David F. Curtis, Sacred Heart University Review, 7:1, 1987
Joe Orton’s Islington, William Cook, Midweek, August 15, 1991
Tangier Revisited, Bill Kelly, The Orton Society Newsletter, November 1994
The Last Days, Bill Kelly, The Orton Society Newsletter, May 1996
Entertaining Joe: A Personal View, Robert Coupland, The Orton Society Newsletter, February, 1995
Gay Men Need to Talk Straight About Paedophilia, Julie Bindel, The Guardian, March 3, 2001
The Lure of The Sotadic Zone, Kevin Markwell, The Gay & Lesbian Review, exceprt from Haworth Press, 2006
The Emergence of the Paedophile in the Late Twentieth Century, Steven Angelides, Historical Studies, 36:126, 2009
Coming Out of the Dark Ages, Geraldine Bedell, The Guardian, June 24, 2007
The Lost Boys, John Savage, The Guardian, August 30, 2007
Famous Names Whose Final Stop Was Golders Green Crematorium, Andy McSmith, Independent, March 16, 2010
Library Books Defaced by Prankster Playwright Joe Orton Go On Show, Mark Brown, The Guardian, October 11, 2011
How Morocco Became a Haven for Gay Westerners in the 1950s, Richard Hamilton, BBC World Service, October 12, 2014
Gandhi Was a Racist Who Forced Young Girls…, Mayukh Sen, Vice, December 3, 2015
Malicious Damage: Joe Orton and Kenneth Halliwell’s Defaced Library Books, Karen Strike, Flashbak, November 2, 2016
Sticky Stories: Joe Orton, Queer History, Queer Dramaturgy, Studies in Theater and Performance, Volume 37, Issue 2, 2017
Introducing Orton: A History and a Historiography, Kate Dorney, Studies in Theater and Performance, Volume 37, Issue 2, 2017
9 August 1967/The Pyjamas, Simon Shepherd, Studies in Theater and Performance, Volume 37, Issue 2, 2017
Missing Diary Pages Could Hold the Clue to Joe Orton’s Murder, Mark Smith, The Herald, August 6, 2017
Joe Orton’s Play Loot to be Staged Uncut 50 Years After Being Censored, Marianna Spring, The Guardian, August 6, 2017
Why I’ll Never Forgive My Brother’s Killer, Mark Smith, The Herald, August 6, 2017
The Death of Joe Orton – Archive, August 1967, Richard Nelsson, The Guardian, August 9, 2017
Jealous TV Producer Unmasked as ‘Second Killer’ of Sixties Playwright Joe Orton, Paddy Dinham, The Daily Mail, November 19, 2017
Up and At ‘Em: Death in the Sex of Joe Orton, Leon Horton, Erotic Review, January 3, 2018
What the Butler Saw: Joe Orton’s Savage Satire on Rape is as Relevant Now as it was in 1969, Emma Parker, The Conversation, March 4, 2019
Joe Orton: The Life and Death of Leicester’s Greatest Writer…, Ciaran Fagan, The Leicester Mercury, July 25, 2019
Joe Orton Statue Appeal Off to Fantastic Start…, Ciaran Fagan, The Leicester Mercury, August 1, 2019
There’s No Acceptable Face of Paedophilia, Especially Not Joe Orton, Paul T Horgan, The Conservative Woman, August 16, 2019
Films:
Joe Orton Laid Bare, Richard Curson Smith, 2017 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTcMRRZipT0
A Genius Like Us: A Portrait of Joe Orton, Pamela Brighton and Nigel Williams, Arena, 1982
Prick Up Your Ears, Stephen Frears, 1987
Multimedia:
Joe Orton Eamon Andrews Interview April 1967
Joe Orton Interviewed by Roland Orton August 2, 1967