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"OTIS (Odd Things I've Seen): A Book and a Burial Site: The Grave of John Bellairs"

https://www.oddthingsiveseen.com/2014/09/a-book-and-burial-site-grave-of-john.html

"John Bellairs: Author of the Imaginary" | Stories | Notre Dame Magazine | University of Notre Dame

https://magazine.nd.edu/stories/john-bellairs-author-of-the-imaginary/

"John Bellairs" - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bellairs

"Critical attention has focused on The House With the Clock in Its Walls as exemplar of Bellairs' literary merit and style. Critics argued that Bellairs wrestled with notions of masculinity, femininity, and queerness in his works.[19][22][23] One scholar contended that Bellairs' Lewis Barnavelt and Rose Rita Pottinger trilogy traced the "emerging acceptance of self" by the two main characters, who struggled with internalized gender norms.[24] One of the most substantial academic treatments of Bellairs comes from Dawn Heinecken, professor of women's and gender studies at the University of Louisville. Heinecken situates Bellairs in 1970s-era anxieties about gender and changing discourses around masculinity, which were reflected in the era's children's literature.[19]"