David Ewen. Great Men of American Popular Song. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1972.

Caryl Flinn. Brass Diva: The Life and Legends of Ethel Merman. University of California Press, 2007. Provides details about the Paramount-Astoria film shorts in which Merman sang songs with lyrics by Yip

Will Friedwald. Stardust Memories: A Biography of Twelve of America's Most Popular Songs. NY: Pantheon, 2002. Includes a chapter (p. 142) that describes how Yip helped composer Johnny Green and lyricist Edward Heymann create the lyric to their classic, "Body and Soul."

Philip Furia. The Poets of Tin Pan Alley: A History of America's Great Lyricists. NY: Oxford University Press, 1990, 1992. Chapter 9: "Paper Moons: Howard Dietz and Yip Harburg."

James Gavin. Stormy Weather: The Life of Lena Horne. Atria Books, 2009. Contains several passages about Horne's connection to Yip, chiefly via the 1943 motion picture Cabin in the Sky and the 1957 Broadway musical Jamaica.