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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:

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

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