Magale Library catalog:
A book-length biography or autobiography gives breadth and depth not possible in articles.
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Electronic resources:
(Sources listed are not intended to be a comprehensive list.)
- Academic Video Online: Premium (Alexander Street Press)
- Britannica Online
- Contemporary Authors (Gale) (Short author bios on writers from many fields, not just literature)
- Credo Reference
- EBSCO eBook Collection
- Films on Demand
- Gale Virtual Reference Library (GVRL)
- Obituaries of famous and notable people in the New York Times can be found in Academic OneFile, and The New York Times – Historical (ProQuest).
- These obituaries are renowned for providing thumbnail sketches of a person’s accomplishments and of the reasons the person was famous or infamous, as well as interesting tidbits about the person.
- Proquest Ebook Central
- Salem Press ebooks (American Presidents and First Ladies, Great Lives from History series, Innovators)
Some print series to try in the Magale Library Reference collection:
(Sources listed are not intended to be a comprehensive list.)
- American National Biography Call number CT 213 .A68 1999
- Current Biography Call number CT 100 .C8 date of volume
- Dictionary of Literary Biography Call number PN 41 .D52
- Notable Twentieth-Century Scientists Call number Q 171 .N73 1995