Subject Guide » Biographical Information
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Consult the Subject Guides or ask one of the Library Liaisons for recommendations of biographical resources related to specific professions, disciplines or subjects. Here are a few examples.
American Men and Women of ScienceProfiles prominent living North American and Canadian Scientists with particular emphasis on the physical and biological sciences. References to earlier editions are given for previous entrants now known to be deceased. Print editions have the call number Q 141 .A471x (latest in Sci.R.)
Biographical Directory of the United States CongressShort biographies of past and present members of the U.S. congress.
Contemporary Authors Z 1224 .c6 (Ref)
Part of the Literature Resource center, this directory provides brief biographical information about more than 120,000 authors from the US and elsewhere. Includes writers of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, journalism, and many other fields.
Dictionary of Literary Biography
PS221.D5 (Ref) 1978-present
Now available online, the print consists of hundreds of volumes, each covering a distinct literary period, genre, or theme, with extensive essays, frequently illustrated with images of the author and his/her works, which link biography with interpretations of the literary work. Included are literary authors, journalists, historians, screenwriters, scholars, critics, and publishers. Though international is scope, emphasis is on those authors writing in English. Some authors appear in more than one volume. Use the online index or the index in the latest published volume to find all the previous volumes.
Science Biography ResourcesCompiled by the University of Chicago Library information system.
The Presidents of the United StatesBiographies and portraits of the presidents and First Ladies from the White House site.
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