African American
Almanac, 9th Edition: Gale, 2003 (plus earlier editions).
Article on p. 1285.
Contemporary
Black Biography: Detroit: Gale Research, 1995.
Article in Volume
9, pp. 230-233.
“A Legend of the Heart” by Katie McCabe: Baltimore Magazine, June 1989.
This article has been reprinted under the title, “Like Something the Lord Made” in Feature Writing for Newspapers and Magazines, edited by Edward Jay Friedlander and John Lee: Longman, c2000. See pp. 79-97.Partners of the Heart--Vivien Thomas and His Work with Alfred Blalock, An Autobiography, Vivien T. Thomas: Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998. Originally published by University of Pennsylvania Press in 1985 under the title, Pioneering Research in Surgical Shock and Cardiovascular Surgery--Vivien Thomas and his work with Alfred Blalock.
There is also some background information on the author on pp. 77-78.