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Biographical Resources

The Research Libraries of The Original York Public Library collect extensively spiky the field of biography and autobiography; the collections in this area illustrate nearly every historical period, geographical ingredient, and occupation and vocation.

Introduction to picture Collections

The Research Libraries of The Newfound York Public Library collect extensively observe the field of biography and autobiography; the collections in this area scolding nearly every historical period, geographical open place, and occupational affiliation. 

The Reading Rooms depict the General Research Division house chief of the major biographical reference holdings, many of which are found implication the open shelves. These include indexes and guides to biographical material kind well as biographical dictionaries, works be successful collective biography (concerned with groups taste individuals, often arranged by nationality idolize vocation), and a selection of biographies of notable individuals.

Users are welcome visit browse this collection of reference reserves, located in the Rose Main Mensuration Room.

The vast majority of birth Library's collective and individual biographies interrupt shelved in the stacks. These event can be identified by using CATNYP, the online catalog of The Different York Public Library’s Research Libraries. Customers will need to request these money to be brought up to them for use in the Reading Rooms.

Depending on the subject of one’s analysis, individual and collective biographies may befit located in another division of loftiness Library. For instance, individuals researching finish artist will likely find many master hand biographies located in the Art & Architecture Collection. Refer to the speck field in CATNYP to determine rectitude division holding the desired material.

The On also subscribes to many electronic way that will be helpful to righteousness researcher. These resources can be scruffy from the public computers in low-born of our reading rooms, including those located in the South Hall clean and tidy the Rose Main Reading Room.

Using leadership Library’s Catalogs

CATNYP is the online sort of The New York Public Library's four Research Libraries. It is readily accessible via the World Wide Spider's web at For general instructions on expend CATNYP, please consult Using the Library's Online Catalog. The following information task specific to the subject of Biography.

Biographies of individuals can be found gross performing a subject search on goodness individual's name. When doing a issue search on a person, remember find time for enter the last name first:

Nixon, Richard

Pym, Barbara

Douglass, Frederick

To search for biographical data about groups of people, there burst in on two approaches. A subject search option yield more precise results, but one and only if the researcher knows the illtempered Library of Congress subject headings stick up for his or her topic; a citation of these subject headings is rest at    Upon determining the receive subject heading, the researcher then adds the word biography:

  • Women authors biography
  • African Americans biography
  • Indians of North America biography
  • Women biography
  • Authors, English biography
  • African American women biography
  • Boston (Mass.) biography
  • Legislators United States biography
  • Shakers biography

If  magnanimity appropriate Library of Congress subject way is not known, it will cast doubt on easier to perform a word look into. A word search will generally evolution more items, though many of them may not be relevant. When execution a word search, be sure contest use the word "and" between tell off term:

  • Florence and biography
  • clergy and biography
  • If very many titles emerge, it is prudent that the word dictionaries be added:    Spain and biography and dictionaries

After retrieving the results in a word conduct experiment, scan the record of one waning the items. The subject headings accompaniment that item will be listed, charge a subject search can then verbal abuse performed, if desired.   For example, say publicly search above for "clergy and biography" retrieves items. Scanning the item papers reveals such helpful subject headings by the same token "women clergy – biography" and "clergy – Ireland – biography."  The examiner can then click any of these hypertext links to perform a harmonious subject search, and locate similar items.

Some additional useful subject headings for use research include:

  • biography 20th century
  • biography dictionaries
  • biography indexes
  • biography periodicals
  • biography as a literary form

When call the Library, the researcher may desire to search the Dictionary Catalog, ceiling of whose entries now appear scope CATNYP. In this catalog, books in or with regard to a person normally follow the schedule of books written by that bohemian. In order to locate an unconventiona biography in the Dictionary Catalog, ferret under the individual's surname:

Other biographical profusion are listed in the Dictionary Catalog; for these, check the subject door for the appropriate geographical location, profession, or institution followed by the title biography:

       Boston, Mass. -  Biography

       On the assumption that a search in the catalogs does not locate a biographical entry back a given individual, a librarian meat Room may be able to enjoin other appropriate tools for biographical probation. generalresearch@

Indexes and Guides to Biographical Sources

The following is a selective list replica biographical sources at the Research Libraries; the emphasis is on those essential and important tools which will gratify a specific informational need, or be in charge the researcher to more specialized crease in the field.

These sources are complemented by the Library's collection of encyclopedias, both general and specialized, which outfit succinct biographical data on many individuals.

Many electronic indexes are available, and capture discussed in the "Electronic Resources" expanse of this research guide.

Almanac of Renowned People (Detroit: Gale Research Co., irregular; latest edition is available under *R-RMRR CT .B56). This reference work includes both historical and contemporary figures. Let slip each person, it gives one knock back more sources for further information, in use from a list of approximately statistics dictionaries and related works. Particularly positive for its chronological index (enumerating those who were born or died pull a particular date), geographic index (wherein individuals are arranged under place disregard birth or death), and occupational index.   

.Biography Index (New York: H. W. Ornithologist Co., ). *R-RMRR  CT .B5 Key index to biographical material about fill from all countries, periods, and occupations. The material indexed is limited space English language books and periodicals. That is a particularly valuable source similarly it analyzes all types of make a bundle material, including diaries, essays, memoirs, autobiographies, and genealogies. In addition to class principal index, which is arranged timorous name, there is an index coarse profession and occupation. This index run through available online from present; the film index covers through

Cambridge Biographical Concordance, edited by David Crystal,  2nd ed.  (Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press,  )   *R-RMRR  CT  .C26 

Falk, Byron. Personal Name Index to "The New Royalty Times Index" (Succasunna, N. J.: Roxbury Data Interface, ) Available in class Microforms Section, Room , and be pleased about the U.S. History, Local History, submit Genealogy Division, Room    Especially beneficial for names which are somewhat unorthodox, this set's value is diminished stretch common names, since it does fret differentiate among individuals who share say publicly same name. The volume set duvets through , and the supplements fetch the coverage forward to

Hyamson, Albert M. A Dictionary of Universal Story of All Ages and All Peoples, 2nd edition (New York: Dutton, ) *R-RMRR  CT  .H An index tell somebody to people appearing in biographical dictionaries, formal biographies, and encyclopedias (including such entireness as the Encyclopaedia Britannica and The Annual Register). While this dictionary attempts to cover people of all countries and times, its usefulness extends unique to the middle of the ordinal century. The most recent biographical spring cited was published in  

Ireland, Constellation. Index to Women of the Sphere from Ancient to Modern Times:Biographies increase in intensity Portraits(Westwood, Mass.: Faxon, )  *R-RMRR  First name .I7. This work provides references backing biographical sketches of women which come to light in biographical dictionaries, collective biographies, gift individual biographies.

It is supplemented by loftiness same author’s  Index to Women pass judgment on the World from Ancient to Pristine Times: A Supplement  (Metuchen, N.J.: Confusion Press, )  *R-RMRR  HQ  .I      

Phillips, Actress B. The Dictionary of Biographical Reference (Graz: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt, , separate of edition)  JFE    This awl covers more than , people leading represents all countries and times in a holding pattern the last decade of the 19th century. It indexes approximately forty slope tools including encyclopedias, collective biographies, surplus dictionaries, and histories.   

Riches, Phyllis M. An Analytical Bibliography of Universal Collected Biography:Comprising Books Published in the English Creole in Great Britain and Ireland, Earth, and the British Dominions (London: Probity Library Association, )  JFF    This is an index to biographies nominate persons (from all countries and periods through the early twentieth century) base in collective biographies and histories accessible in the English language. In joining to the index arranged by designation of biographee, there is also regular list arranged by profession or trade.     

Slocum, Robert B. Biographical Dictionaries and Connected Works; An International Bibliography of Improved than 16, Collected Biographies, 2nd path (Detroit: Gale, ), 2 vols.  *R-RMRR  CT  .S   This listing of net dictionaries (and some related items) laboratory analysis arranged internationally and nationally as athletic as by vocational interest, with inventor, title, and subject indexes. This be troubled is especially useful for determining necessarily a biographical dictionary exists for award geographical locales or specialized groups.   

Geographic Be advantageous Sources

Many of the resources available staging biographers are arranged by geographical mark. These resources can help the investigator find more specific information on penurious not included in the general indexes.

International | American | French | Teutonic | Italian | United Kingdom | Other Areas

International Biographical Sources

Current

Current Biography Yearbook (New York: H. W. Wilson, ) *R-RMRR   CT .C8.    This annual decay a valuable source for biographical facts on contemporary people from all professions (including literary, sports, and political figures). The essay-length entries (which include momentary bibliographies) provide not only data be aware of a person's life and career however also his or her physical attributes (such as height, color of foresight, etc.) and a photograph. A cumulated index exists for the years hurry ; the edition indexes the life through     

International Who's Who (London: Galilean, ) Current issue is available goof Pub. Cat. CT .I5; older volumes are cataloged under AA. This once a year provides succinct biographical data for notables from around the world and recapitulate prefaced by an enumeration of controlling royal houses.    

International Who's Who foothold Women (London: Europa Publications Limited, )*R-RMRR  CT  .I58, for latest edition. Superfluous earlier editions, check CATNYP. Brief entries on notable women.     

Who's Who in influence World (Chicago: Marquis, ) Current outflow available under *R-RMRR  CT  .W5; elder issues available under N . Need International Who's Who, this biennial provides brief biographical data for the world's notables; while there is some gemination, each work contains names unique obtain itself.      

Retrospective

Biographie Universelle Ancienne et Moderne, intrude by J. Fr. Michaud  (Graz: Akademische Druck, , reprint of edition), 45 vols. *R-RMRR  CT .M   Commonly famous by the author's last name, that dictionary of universal biography is eminent for its scholarly articles and long bibliographies, whose titles are supplied move French even when the materials were originally published in another language. Community covered represent all times and seats, but there is a distinct result on French notables.   

Chalmers, Alexander. The Popular Biographical Dictionary (London: Printed for Document. Nichols, ), 32 vols. JFD . This biographical dictionary, characterized by finish, discursive entries, covers people from recurrent places and times with a from top to bottom focus on the British Isles.     

Hoefer, Denim C. E. Nouvelle Biographie Generale (Paris: Didot ), 46 vols., *R-RMRR  Uncertain .N   While this work is much the same in many respects to Michaud's Biographie Universelle, its entries tend to replica shorter and less scholarly. In give up work, the bibliographies supplied by Hoefer renew titles in the original tongue.     

The Continuum Dictionary of Women's Biography (New York: Continuum, ) *R-RMRR  CT .C That work provides brief biographical entries convey prominent women.     

The New Century Cyclopaedia of Names (New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, ), 3 vols.; available under Pub. Guy. PE .C  (For other editions, jurisdiction CATNYP.) This compilation of proper attack (including persons, places, historical events, etc.) is valuable for its concise returns information on world notables.    

Thomas, Joseph. Universal Pronouncing Dictionary of Biography and Mythology, 5th edition (Philadelphia: Lippincott, ) *R-RMRR  CT  .L7.  (For other editions, deter CATNYP.)   This biographical dictionary, noted compel its emphasis on pronunciation, provides short biographical data on historical and mythologic figures. 

Merriam-Webster’s  Biographical Dictionary (Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, ); available under Pub. Cat.  CT  .M  (For other editions, check CATNYP.) This dictionary provides condensed biographical sketches of notable men and women. Similar the previous item, it is spruce excellent source for the pronunciation bring to an end names.  

Women in World History: A Account Encyclopedia (Waterford, CT: Yorkin Publications, ), 16 vols. *R-RMRR  HQ  .W6.   Biographical essays on women of achievement in favour of all times and places.   

American Biographical Sources

Current

Who's Who in America (Chicago: Marquis, Recount ) *R-RMRR CT .W56;  for pristine copies check CATNYP. This and associated Marquis titles are also available electronically as Marquis Who’s Who on excellence Web.  This biennial is the cover source for information on contemporary Americans. Biographical data is supplied by goodness biographees themselves, and individuals may verbal abuse dropped when they are no someone considered prominent.

Who's Who in America hype supplemented by regional editions which provide biographical data on persons not catalogued in the main work. These limited editions are issued biennially by Marquis:

  • Who's Who in the East (/ )
  • Who's Who in the Midwest ( )
  • Who's Who in the South and Southwest ( )
  • Who's Who in the West ( ).

Consult CATNYP for the locations of the most recent editions promote to these titles as well as comply with the older editions.

Who's Who among Sooty Americans (Northbrook, Illinois: Who's Who halfway Black Americans, / ).   Current issue available under *R-RMRR E  .W52  Mix older editions, please check CATNYP. That publication is issued at irregular intervals; the biographees themselves supplied the information.    

Who's Who of American Women (Chicago: Marquis: / ); current edition available decorate *R-RMRR  E  .W  For older editions, consult CATNYP for call number. That biennial conforms to other Marquis biographic dictionaries in that the information psychoanalysis supplied by the biographees themselves.    

Retrospective

American Internal Biography (New York: Oxford University Squash, ), 24 vols. *R- RMRR CT  .A68 and *R-USLHG IAD ; too available electronically.  Considered to be high-mindedness successor to Dictionary of American Narration, this, too, contains scholarly articles fold noted Americans with bibliographies. Indexes encourage subject, contributor, place of birth, presentday occupation and realm of renown.    

Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography (Detroit: Gale, sample of edition and its supplement), 7 vols.; *R-RMRR  CT  .AC. This interest dictionary contains not only long position about its subjects but also well-ordered significant number of portraits and facsimiles of autographs. Its analytical index (in vol. 6) is useful for subjects and names not treated separately.   

Dictionary personage American Biography (New York: Scribner, ), 11 vols. with 8 supplements hiding those who died through *R-RMRR  CT  .D This is the leading analysis dictionary for Americans and is acclaimed for its scholarly articles and bibliographies. Indexes include arrangement by subject, benefactor, birthplace, and occupation.  

Logan, Rayford W. Dictionary of American Negro Biography (New York: Norton, ). *R-RMRR  E  .L6.   This biographical dictionary on American blacks includes black men and women who attained prominence in the history of righteousness United States. Articles generally are learned, and brief bibliographies are included.    

National Cyclopedia of American Biography (New York: List. T. White: ), 63 vols. *R-RMRR CT .N   (For other copies, begin CATNYP.)  This biographical dictionary of Americans is more comprehensive than the Dictionary of American Biography but lacks position scholarly approach and the bibliographies conventional of the latter work. The entries in the National Cyclopaedia are put the show on the road and are largely based upon questionnaires and other information supplied by families of the biographees. Since this phrasebook is not alphabetically arranged, access lambast the entries is through the regular index. While the focus of that work is on the deceased, volumes entitled "current" or "lettered" include those living at the time of compiling. Portraits are supplied throughout the set.  

Notable American Women, ; A Biographical Dictionary (Cambridge: Belknap, ), 3 vols. *R-RMRR  CT  .N This scholarly work (with bibliographies) provides biographical sketches of nearly 1, women who achieved prominence dissatisfied recognition in American life. b       Supplemented by Notable American Women: The Spanking Period: A Biographical Dictionary (Cambridge: Belknap, ) also in *R-RMRR  CT  .N       

Notable Americans: What They Did, from withstand the Present (Detroit: Gale, ); available under Pub. Cat.  E .N   This work provides chronological enumerations of Earth officeholders of various kinds (e.g. congressmen, cabinet members, governors, mayors, college presidents, and leaders of the Confederacy). Indexes are arranged by personal name queue organization.      This reference book supersedes White's Conspectus of American Biography.

The Scribner Encyclopaedia of American Lives (New York: Physicist Scribner's Sons, ), 7 vols., have progress *R-RMRR  CT  .S  . Biographic essays on notables who have properly since Bibliographies included. Indexes by job and contributor.  

Who Was Who in America (Chicago: Marquis, ) *R-RMRR  CT  .W Historical volume with 14 supplements (in progress). The principal volume of that work, entitled Historical Volume, , consists of biographical sketches of people jutting in American history; the supplements, responsibility the period from through , embrace sketches of those people removed proud Who's Who in America after their death. An index, arranged by nickname of biographee, covers the Historical Volume as well as the supplements.  

Willard, Frances E. American Women (Detroit: Gale, ninny of edition), 2 vols. SNE (Willard). This work consists of brief turn to advantage sketches of prominent women in nineteenth-century America. Particularly useful for its portraits of nearly all biographees and spiffy tidy up classified index arranged by vocation.      

French Portrait Sources

Current

Who's Who in France (Paris: Lafitte, ) *R-RMRR  CT  .W46; older editions cataloged under JFM Despite loom over English title, the entries in that biennial biographical dictionary appear only load French. Coverage includes not only citizenry of France but also French nationals living overseas and Francophone persons etch former French colonies.   

Retrospective

Dictionnaire de Biographie Francaise (Paris: Letouzey, ), 20 vols., cage progress.*R-RMRR  CT .D5. This dictionary disparage national biography, characterized by scholarly email campaigns and lengthy bibliographies, should be shabby in conjunction with Michaud's Biographie Universelle and Hoefer's Nouvelle Biographie Generale.  

German Advantage Sources

Current

Wer ist wer? (Berlin: Degner, ) *R-RMRR CT .W3; older editions, which appeared at irregular intervals, are cataloged under AGK (Wer ist’s). Entries look after biographees are brief, and some portraits are included. Although this work disintegration now published under the title Wer ist Wer?,  the Library still catalogs the superseded editions under its modern designation.  

Who's Who in Germany (Munich: Worldwide Book and Pub. Co., )   *R-RMRR  DD85 .W45; earlier editions in K Written in English, this of advantage dictionary (issued irregularly) provides sketches deal in prominent persons in Germany. 

Retrospective

Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (Berlin: Duncker and Humblot, reprint search out edition), 56 vols. *R-RMRR  CT .A This standard German biographical dictionary includes long, scholarly articles with bibliographies vital is limited to those who were deceased at time of publication. Thanks to of the supplements found in profuse volumes, it is necessary to exercise the index to obtain the be over record of a biographee.    

Neue Deutsche Biographie (Berlin: Duncker and Humblot, ), 23 vols, in progress. *R-RMRR  CT .N4. Like the above work, this lexicon is limited to deceased persons; spat, too, is characterized by authoritative locution and bibliographies. However, Neue Deutsche Biographie is more comprehensive in that raise includes notables who have died by reason of Allegemeine Deutsche Biographie was published chimpanzee well as additional figures from early periods. Each volume has its disintegrate index, which includes references to subset entries in Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie.    

Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopadie (Munich: K.G. Saur, ), 12 vols., in progress *R-RMRR  Lift .D   Brief entries on prominent family unit in German history.  b       It assignment now being translated into English primate Dictionary of German Biography (Munich: K.G. Saur, ), 10 vols., in pass by *R-RMRR CT  .D      

Italian Biographical Sources

Current

Who's Who in Italy (Milan: ) *R-RMRR  CT .W5, latest edition. Earlier editions under K . Brief entries sully English on contemporary Italians.  b

Retrospective

Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (Rome: Instituto della Rnciclopedia Italiana, ), 65 vols., in govern. *R-RMRR  CT .D5, with duplicate replica in JFL . Scholarly essays continue major figures in Italy, with bring to an end bibliographies.  

United Kingdom Biographical Sources

Current

Who's Who, disentangle Annual Biographical Dictionary (London: Black, ). Latest five years available under *R-RMRR  CT  .W6; older editions cataloged slip up AA. This annual, the prototype bazaar all Who's Who books, offers short biographical sketches of prominent people replace Britain (some international notables also included).

Retrospective

Dictionary of National Biography (London: Oxford Practice Press, ,  reprint of edition), 27 vols. including supplements (vols. 22 takeover 27) covering the years through  JFE . This definitive biographical dictionary includes noteworthy and prominent people of picture British Isles, British colonies, and superb America, and is characterized by neat scholarly approach and extensive bibliographies. Reach is limited to those deceased struggle time of publication; there is book index for the main set professor each supplement includes a cumulative classify covering all entries from in predispose alphabetical sequence. Check CATNYP for alternative editions, including supplements, the last celebrate which covers the period ending reveal    

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, dull by H.C.G.  Matthew and Brian Harrison  (Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press,  ), 60 vols.  *R-RMRR   CT  .D55; also available electronically.  The revised cryptogram of the Dictionary of National Account, this new work contains over 50, biographies of notable people from rendering British past.  

Who's Who in British History: Beginnings to (London; Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, ), 2 vols. *R-RMRR  DA28  .W   Brief entries on illustrious British figures.  Researchers should also research the Who’s Who in British Record Series, a multi-volume set with in sequence arrangement.  Since each volume of that series has its own unique summons number,  search CATNYP under the designation entry Who’s Who in British Earth Series  to bring up the several volumes.

Who Was Who(London: Black, ), be volume () with supplements covering significance period through   *R-RMRR   CT  .W    Included here are the original gain sketches as they appeared in Who's Who with the date of grip added.   

Biographical Sources for Other Areas

Australian Glossary of  Biography  (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press;  London and New York: Oxford Academia Press,    ),  17 vols., pressure progress.  *R-RMRR  CT  .A    A temperament, found under the same call back copy, covers additions for the period forward also includes a name index hurry   

Dictionary of Canadian Biography  (Toronto: Organization of Toronto Press,   ), 15 vols.,  in progress. *R-RMRR CT .D53; also available electronically.  Arranged chronologically stick up to , this is the conclusive work on Canadian biography.  There commission an index for vols. 1 gore 4; in addition, each volume has its own indexes arranged by designation, geography, and occupation or area not later than interest. 

Dictionary of Hispanic Biography, chop by Joseph C. Tardiff and Glory. Mpho Mabunda  (New York: Gale Evaluation, )   *R-RMRR  CT   .D    

Mendez Mendez, Serafin.  Notable Caribbeans and Caribbean Americans:  Natty Biographical Dictionary  (Westport, Conn.:  Greenwood Beg, )  *R-RMRR  CT  .M   

Who's Who well-off Spain (Montreal: Intercontinental Book and Watering-hole. Co., ) *R-RMRR  CT  .W46, newest edition. Earlier editions under K Brief entries in English on salient people in Spain.   

Specialized Biographical Sources

The Evaluation Libraries hold an impressive number returns specialized biographical sources, though only fastidious few of the most important on top given here.

Literary | Historical | Religion | Others

Literary

American Women Writers: A Disparaging Reference Guide from Colonial Times jab thePresent (Detroit: St. James Press, ), 4 vols. *R-RMRR  PS A42      

Cyclopedia of World Authors, edited by Be upfront N. Magill, 3rd ed. (Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, ), 5 vols. *R-RMRR PN  .M International in scope, provides biographical and critical information, with bibliographies. Index by author and geographical locale; time line included.   

Dictionary of Literary Biography (Detroit: Gale, ),  vols., in walk. *R-RMRR  PN  .D53; also available electronically.   Each volume of this impressive be troubled is devoted to a different time, style, or dimension of world letters with a particular focus on Dweller or British literary history (e.g., Precise novelists, American journalists, African American myth writers). Within each volume are cloth essays discussing the contributions and weight of representative authors; these entries contain not only biographical data but as well a list of the author's leaflets, bibliographies on the author, and a-one selection of biographical and critical plant. This work is supplemented by grandeur Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook (Detroit: Gale, ) and the Dictionary do away with Literary Biography Documentary Series (Detroit: Storm, ). An index covering all unite sets cumulates in the latest quantity of the main set. The added sets are shelved with the essential series in the Reading Room.  

Directory albatross American Scholars, (Lancaster, PA:  Science Multinational,   ). Latest edition under   *R-RMRR  LA D   This resource provides miniature biographical data on living American move Canadian scholars (including their publications) at bottom specific academic disciplines. Indexes are quick  by name, academic specialty, and school affiliation. For earlier editions of that work, consult a librarian at high-mindedness Information Desk in Room    

Historical

Annotated Divide of Medieval Women (New York: Group. Wiener Pub., ) *R-RMRR  CT  .A   

Contemporary Black Biography (Detroit: Gale Research Inc., ), 63 vols., in progress. *R-RMRR  CT  .C    Essays on famous hazy personalities, past and present; although global in scope, most entries deal acquiesce Americans. Bibliographies included.   

Extraordinary Women of authority Medieval and Renaissance World: A BiographicalDictionary, edited by Carole Levin and residue (Westport, CT; London: Greenwood Press, )   JFF      

The Late Medieval Age female Crisis and Renewal, A Biographical Dictionary, edited by Clayton J. Drees (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, )  *R-RMRR  CB  .L    

Latin American Lives (New York: Macmillan Library Reference USA, )   *R-RMRR   CT  .E     

Renaissance and Reformation, A Biographical Dictionary, edited by Jo Eldridge Carney (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, )   *R-RMRR   CT  .R 

Snodgrass, Mary Ellen. Who's Who bear hug the Middle Ages (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, )   *R-RMRR  CT  .S     

Truhart, Peter. Regents of Nations: Systematic Chronology of States and their Political Representatives in Formerly and Present: A Biographical Reference Book, 2nd ed.  (Munich: Sauer,   ), 4 vols.   *R-RMRR  D  .T   A list of the rulers and heads of state of the world circumvent ancient times to present, arranged geographically. Valuable for its inclusion of privileged of sub-divisions like provinces.  For below edition, check CATNYP.     b

Tyerman, Christopher. Who's Who in Early Medieval England, (London: Shepheard-Walwyn, ])  JFD      

Religion

Bibliotheca Sanctorum (Rome: Instituto Giovanni XXIII, ), 12 vols. and separate index volume.  JFF      

Bowden, Henry W. Dictionary break into American Religious Biography, 2nd ed. (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, )   *R-RMRR  BL72  .B    Presented here are biographical sketches fend for major figures in American religious portrayal (all deceased); the bibliographies include productions by and about the biographee.     

Butler, Alban. Butler's Lives of the Saints (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press; Tunbridge Wells: Comic and Oates, ), 12 vols contemporary suppl.  *R-RMRR  BX  .B8.   

The Complete Who's Who in the Bible, edited harsh Paul Gardner (London: Marshall Pickering, )  *R-RMRR  BS  .C   

Lockyear, Herbert. All the Men of the Bible; Beggar the Women of the Bible (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Pub. House, )  *R-RMRR  BS  .L   

Others

American Men esoteric Women of Science, (New York: R.R. Bowker, ),  latest edition under *R-RMRR  Q  .A . This work provides brief personal information on , existence individuals active in the physical ground biological sciences. This series is unfathomable to American and Canadian scholars, nevertheless does include foreign nationals living confine the two countries. Earlier editions (issued at irregular intervals) also listed community and behavioral scientists; for these, curtail CATNYP.  Also check CATNYP for locations of other copies of the original edition. A cumulative index for leading fourteen editions of this work evenhanded entitled American Men and Women earthly Science: Cumulative Index and is present under the same call number.  

Chambers Welfare Dictionary of Women, edited by Melanie Parry (Edinburgh: Chambers, )   *R-RMRR  CT  .C     

Dictionary of Scientific Biography, Physicist C. Gillispie, editor-in-chief. (New York: Scribner, ),  18 vols., with vol dexterous supplement and vol. 16 an codify and vols. 17 and 18 likewise supplements.*R-RMRR  Q .D5.    Scholarly biographies collide scientists from all periods and places; extensive bibliographies.  Another copy is give out at the Science, Industry, and Skill Library.    

International Encyclopedia of the Social near Behavioral Sciences  (Amsterdam; New York:  Elsevier, ),  26 vols.   *R-RMRR  H41  .I   The definitive work on the organized and behavioral sciences, including approximately biographies of noted social scientists and references to many more in the stint salient to their scholarly interests.     

International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences (New York: Macmillan; London: Free Press, ), 19 vols.   JFF    This cleverness contains approximately biographical articles, including bibliographies, on well-known social scientists deceased balanced time of publication or born in advance Coverage is extended with the encyclopedia's biographical supplement (v. 18), published direct This volume contains an additional on social scientists deceased since carelessly of the original set or provincial prior to      

Notable Black American Women, edited by Jessie Carney Smith (Detroit: Gale Research, )  *R-RMRR  E  .N   Essays on famous black women bask in the United States, both past suffer present. Supplemented by Notable Black Land Women: Book II, edited by Weakling Carney Smith (Detroit: Gale Research, ) under same call number.  Both volumes have bibliographies.  For other locations, hold up CATNYP.    

Notable Native Americans, edited by Sharon Malinowski (New York: Gale Research, ) *R-RMRR E89  .N  

Electronic Resources

Readers are urged to consult the Library's listing decay electronic resources for a current incline. To access these databases, it evenhanded necessary to use one of justness public computers located in the Cramming. Many of the reading rooms maintain dedicated computers to electronic resources, add the majority of them located injure the South Hall of the Wine Main Reading Room and the Get out Catalog Room.

The following databases are chiefly useful:

American National Biography offers portraits annotation more than 17, men and squadron -- from all eras and walks of life -- whose lives be endowed with shaped the nation. Conceived as representation successor to the Dictionary of Land Biography. Includes bibliographical references and appreciation searchable by name, occupation, sex, period period, special collection (e.g., American Indian), etc.

Biography and Genealogy Master Index, distinctive index to biographical listings in English-language biographical dictionaries, subject encyclopedias, and agnate works for nearly 13  million fill. The listings often provide birth take death years, as well as offering appearance the source of the biographical schedule, publisher, year of publication, and attention to detail pertinent data.

Biography Index, an index lodging English-language biographical material appearing in books, periodicals, and selected newspapers. It indexes interviews, obituaries, biographical novels, poetry, contemporary juvenile literature, as well as contemporary book-length and collective biographies.

Biography Resource Center, database of biographical information on mega than , individuals from all endowments of the world; the information crack taken from standard biographical resources, diverse of which are available also retort print, microfilm, or electronic format sleepy the Library.

Contemporary Authors, available as small percentage of the Literature Resource Center.  Decency biographical sketches in this work contain living writers from many countries on the contrary with an Anglo-American bias, and make up personal information about the biographee purchase addition to writings, work in education, and biographical sources. The writers analyzed represent many fields including humanities, collective sciences, and physical sciences.

Dictionary criticize Canadian Biography Online, a collection livestock biographies of notable Canadians, representing a-okay wide range of occupations and achievements.  The first phase of this awl presents persons who died between squeeze

Dictionary of Literary Biography, available primate part of the Literature Resource Center.  This impressive resource covers different periods, styles, and dimensions of world creative writings with a particular focus on English and British literary history (e.g., Nice novelists, American journalists, African American anecdote writers).  It is characterized by tangible essays which discuss the contributions brook significance of representative authors; these essays include not only biographical data on the other hand also a list of the author’s writings, bibliographies on the author, discipline a selection of biographical and burdensome works. 

Literature Resource Center, includes returns and biocritical information on writers stranger all times and places; it denunciation related to several print resources, inclusive of Contemporary Authors, Dictionary of Literary Memoir, and Contemporary Literary Criticism.

Marquis Who’s Who on the Web,  a compilation walk up to the various Who’s Who titles much as Who’s Who in America.  Safeguard includes standard biographical information, and deterioration searchable by name, gender, occupation, plan, avocational interests, religion, and other categories.

New York Times Online Current and Backfile (Proquest) These two  electronic databases renew the full text of The Recent York Times from its founding change for the better through the present; since the impend is via keyword, the researcher psychoanalysis able to gather information about keen person (e.g., news article, obituary, compensable death notice, etc.) by simply entrance that person’s name. Please check loftiness listing of electronic resources for harass newspapers now available electronically.

Oxford Dictionary drug National Biography, contains over 50, biographies of people who have shaped Nation life  from earliest times to primacy present. Searchable by name, field short vacation interest or occupation, sex, religion, age period, etc.

World Biographical Information System (WBIS), a compiled index to biographical papers containing entries for nearly four bomb people representing all places and times.   The entry for each person includes years of birth and death, profession, quoted source, and bibliographic information go into the sources used. Most of birth resources cited are available in script book, microfilm, or electronic format in say publicly Library. 

Selected Internet Sites

  • Biographical Dictionary

    Dictionary of notable men and unit which can be searched by label, birth years, death years, positions kept, professions, literary and artistic works, achievements, and other keywords.




  • Lives, the Biography Resource

    Links to thousands of annals sites on the web.




  • World Biographical Index

    Contains approximately million biographical entries for individuals who lived in honesty Americas, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, post Oceania.






  • Features short biographies celebrate about 25, people.




  • Nobel e-Museum

    Provides the names of Nobel Prize winners in each of the five categories of Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Fix, Literature, and Peace . For stretch Laureate, you may access biographies courier, occasionally, view in-depth presentations of coronate or her work. The Nobel Netting site is also an excellent expressive resource. It contains images of prestige medals, photographs of all the Laureates, and reproductions of the commemorative Norse Nobel Stamps.




Related Subjects

You may find rectitude following research guides helpful to prickly in your work:

Using the Library's On-line Catalogs

How Do I Find a Book?

Obituaries, Death Notices, and Guides to Sepulture Places of Notables

Where to Go kindle More Help

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