George A. Spiva Library

Biography


REFERENCE PRINT BOOKS

Biography Index

End of Reference Shelves

Biographical Dictionary of Modern World Leaders

REF D412 .B55

Contemporary Black Biography

REF DT18 .C66

Current Biography Yearbook

REF CT100 .C8

Dictionary of Literary Biography

REF PN451 .D5

Missouri Biographical Dictionary

REF CT244 .M57

Who's Who in the World

REF CT120 .W5


Use the following online catalogs to search for more print books on your topic:

  • SWAN -searches for materials in Spiva Library and 9 other libraries
    belonging to the SouthWest Academic Network.

  • MOBIUS -searches for items in more than 60 academic libraries in
    Missouri, including Spiva Library.


Suggested Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) to use as search terms for this topic include:

Autobiographies

Genealogy

Obituaries

Character(s)

Individuals

Personalities

Characteristics

Memoirs

Portraits

Epitaphs

Narratives

Yearbooks

 

Notables

 


REFERENCE eBOOKS
(off-campus access requires a login - University email & PIN)

Dictionary of Political Biography

Oxford Companion to Local and Family History

Oxford Dictionary of Local and Family History

Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History

Who's Who in the Twentieth Century


NETLIBRARY eBOOKS (http://www.netlibrary.com/)
(off-campus access requires a NetLibrary account previously created from an on-campus computer)

None available at this time.


ARTICLE DATABASES
(off-campus access requires a login - University email & PIN)

Biography & Genealogy Master Index - biographical material on people from all time periods, geographical locations and fields of endeavor.


Contemporary Authors - provides complete biographical and bibliographical information and references on more than 120,000 U.S. and international authors.


Dictionary of Literary Biography Online - provides more than 16,000 biographical and critical essays on the lives, works, and careers of the world's most influential literary figures from all eras and genres.


Facts on File: World News Digest - archival record of domestic and international news covering all major political, social, and economic events since November 1940.


Discovering Collection - overview essays, critical analyses, biographies, primary sources, creative works and multimedia elements covering five core subject areas: history, literature, biography, science and social science.


Literature Criticism Online - combines and cross-references over 165,000 author names, including pseudonyms and variant names, and listings for over 215,000 titles from Children's Literature Review, Contemporary Literary Criticism, Literature Criticism from 1400-1800, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Poetry Criticism, Short Story Criticism, and Twentieth-Century Criticism, into one easily searchable source.

See complete A-Z listing of all our article databases.


Web Resources

A&E Biography - brief biographical information about approximately 20,000 individuals.


Biographical Dictionary - S9.com - covers more than 28,000 notable men and women who have shape our world from ancient times to the present day.


Biography Center - keyword search of over 10,000 biographies listed alphabetically and by categories.


Inforplease Biography -search 30,000+ biographies of notable people.


PBS Biographies - multimedia biographies of well-known figures.



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