Guide to English Language & Literature

Biographies

This is, of course, only a small number of sources that could be use to find biographical information. Also Remember to do a SUBJECT search in the library catalog to find book-length biographies of authors.

Online:

• Biography and Genealogy Master Index - Online database.

Index of biographical sources like "Whos Who."
See also printed copy: HODGES Reference CT214.B56

• Literature Resource Center - Online Database.

Online compilation of Gale biographical and critical publications.

Printed:

• American National Biography. Oxford University Press, 1999.
  HODGES Reference CT213.A68 1999


• American Writers: A Collection of Literary Biographies. Scribner, 1974-.
  HODGES Reference Index Counter PS129.A55


• Biography Index. H. W. Wilson, 1946-.
  Index of biographical articles in periodicals and journals.
  HODGES Reference Index Counter CT100.B5


• British Writers. Scribner, 1979-1984.
  HODGES Reference Index Counter PR85.B688


• Contemporary Authors. Gale Research, 1967-.
  HODGES Reference Index Counter CT220.C59
  See also: Literature Resource Center - Online Database.


• Contemporary Dramatists,6th. ed. St. James, 1999.
  HODGES Reference PR737.C57 1999


• Contemporary Novelists,7th. ed. St. James, 2001.
  HODGES Reference PR883.C64 2001


• Contemporary Poets,7th. ed. St. James, 2001.
  HODGES Reference PR603.C6 2001


• Dictionary of American Biography. Scribner, 1928-1958.
  HODGES Reference CT211.D5


• Dictionary of Literary Biography. Gale Research, 1978-.
  Includes yearbook and autobiographical series.
  HODGES Reference Index Counter PS221.D5
  See also: Literature Resource Center - Online Database.


• Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press, 1917.
  British national biography of deceased people. Includes updated supplements.
  HODGES Reference CT773.D4


• Encyclopedia of World Biography, 2nd. ed. Gale Research, 1998-1999.
  HODGES Reference CT103.E56 1998