Claude E. Shannon: A Mathematical Theory of Communication
Classical Information Theory (Shannon), by Rich Baldwin
A conversation with Claude Shannon. IEEE Communications Magazine, 1984-05 (PDF)
William Aspray: The Scientific Conceptualization of Information: A Survey, Annals of the History of Computing, 1985 (PDF)
S. Verdu: Fifty years of Shannon theory, IEEE Transactions on information Theory, 1998-10 (PDF)
Mathematical Theory of Claude Shannon - A study of the style and context of his work up to the genesis of information theory, MIT 2001-fall (PDF)
William Aspray: The Many histories of Information, Information & Culture, 2015 (JSTOR)