LibGuides: Databases by Subject: Biographies

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Databases

Biography - Gale in Context (DISCUS) This link opens in a new window
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Discover the world's most influential people by searching narrative biographies, news, magazine, and multimedia content.
Biography Index Past & Present (H.W. Wilson) This link opens in a new window
Indexes biographical information in over 3000 periodicals and books. Includes , bibliographies, Biography, critical studies, fiction and drama, pictorial works, poetry, juvenile literature, obituaries, journals, collections of letters, book reviews, and interviews.
1984 - Present. Updated monthly. HW Wilson
Biography Reference Bank (H.W. Wilson) This link opens in a new window
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This resource offers the in-depth, original profiles of Current Biography and World Authors series, the through periodicals coverage of Biography Index and the specialist biographical content of Junior Authors & Illustrators. Biography Reference Bank contains biographical full-text articles, page images, abstracts and articles from leading magazines and journals.
Current Biography Illustrated (HW Wilson) This link opens in a new window
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This database offers accurate, up-to-date biographies–drawing information from newspaper articles, magazine articles and books. Users can search by name, profession, place of origin, gender, ethnicity, birth/death dates, titles of works and key words for more than 25,000 articles and obituaries.

Literature Resource Center
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Combines biographies, literary criticism, and other resources on topics. It includes information from Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Authors New Revisions, Contemporary Criticism, as well as other respected Gale reference.

Databases by Subject: Biographies

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Something About the Author (reference)

Databases

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