Norman Douglas in Fiction
- Roger Williams's Lunch With Elizabeth David (Little, Brown, 1999) is a novel about Douglas's relationship with Eric Walton, the boy he took to Calabria.
- Anthony Burgess's Earthly Powers makes frequent reference to Norman Douglas.
- Vladimir Nabokov's character Sebastian Knight owns a copy of South Wind.
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