After Fields's death, his widow Annie Adams Fields wrote the biography "Memoir of James T. Fields, by his Wife" (Boston, 1881) and "Authors and Friends" (Boston, 1896), which also reflects on his life. His friend Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote a poem called """" dedicated to him. Fields, along with Longfellow, is featured in the first and third of Matthew Pearl's novels, "The Dante Club" (2003) and "The Last Dickens" (2009). Fields is also mentioned in the 1994 film version of "Little Women".