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Biography Resources Subject Guide
By ffslh1
Created Sep 5 2005 - 00:00

Articles
Start with an index to locate articles in journals, newspapers or magazines. An index allows you to search by subject, author, or keywords that describe your topic.

Start with an index to locate articles in journals, newspapers or magazines. An index allows you to search by subject, author, or keywords that describe your topic.

Books

Listed below are selected biographical resources which are available in most libraries. Some of these are available in the UAf Rasmuson Library.

General

Current Biography (CT100 C8 REF), a biographical dictionary

Authors

African American Writers
PS153 N5 A344 1990 REF

American Writers
PS129 A55 REF

British Writers
PR85 B688 REF

Contemporary Authors
Z1010 C65 REF

The Critical Perspective - a brief portraits of crucial British and American Authors
PR85 C76 1985 REF

Dictionary of Literary Biography
PN451 D53 REF

Modern American Women Writers
PS151 M54 1991 REF

Latin American Writers
PQ7081 A1 L37 1989 REF

Scientists

The biographical dictionary of scientists
Q141.B528 2000 REF

Biographical dictionary of women in science : pioneering lives from ancient times to the mid-20th century
Q141.B5285 2000 REF

Collins biographical dictionary of scientists / edited by Trevor Williams - Q141.C65 1994 REF

Web Resources

General Biographies

  • Biography.com [7] A searchable database of 25,000 famous people, from the folks who produce the TV show Biography.
  • Biography-center [8] A multi-lingual biographical dictionary.
  • The Biographical
    Dictionary     [9]Biographies of more than 33,000 notable men and women who have shaped our world from ancient times to the present day.
  • InfoPlease - Biography [10]
  • Time 100 [11] -TIME profiles 100 of the most important people of the 20th Century.

Subject Biographies

Artists

Historical Figures

Musicians

Philosophers and Writers

Scientists

Additional Resources

To find in-depth biographies for specific persons, try a KEYWORD search the Goldmine, the UAF online catalog.

Example:
Einstein and biography

For information on "biographical writing" try the following SUBJECT search:

Biography as a literary form

**Always remember to check the copyright date to see how current the information is.

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[6] http://libapps.uaf.edu:2048/login?url=http://newfirstsearch.oclc.org/dbname=ReadersGuideAbs;done=referer;FSIP
[7] http://www.biography.com/search/index.html
[8] http://www.biography-center.com/
[9] http://www.s9.com/biography/search.html
[10] http://www.infoplease.com/people.html
[11] http://www.time.com/time/time100/index.html
[12] http://www.askart.com/AskART/index.aspx?redirect=y
[13] http://www3.dcs.hull.ac.uk/genealogy/royal/gedx.html
[14] http://www.distinguishedwomen.com/
[15] http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12272b.htm
[16] http://nobelprize.org/
[17] http://www.potus.com/
[18] https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/world-leaders-1/index.html
[19] http://www.classical.net/music/mstrindx.html
[20] http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Biographies/Literary/BiosPoets.htm
[21] http://www.xs4all.nl/~pwessel/writers.html
[22] http://plato.stanford.edu/
[23] http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/information/biography/