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Scribner Writers Series (Gale) [Details]: Gain access to detailed bio-critical essays on the lives and works of important authors from around the world. Each entry averages 15-20 pages in length and includes a concise essay, hyperlinks for cr ... more information
American National Biography Online [Details]: Biographical resource on more than 18,000 people from all eras who have influenced and shaped American history and culture. The ANB Online features thousands of illustrations, more than 80,000 hyperli ... more information
Literature Resource Center (Gale) [Details]: Biographies, bibliographies and analysis of over 115,000 authors.In-depth coverage of 2000 of the most studied authors.
Literature Online (Chadwyck) [Details]: A fully searchable library of more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, 168 full-text literature journals, and other key criticism and reference resources.
Biography Resource Center (Gale) [Details]: A comprehensive database of biographical information on nearly 220,000 people from around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas and throughout history. Access to more than 330,000 bi ... more information

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Biography and Genealogy Master Index (Gale) [Details]: Indexes current, readily available reference sources, as well as the most important retrospective works, that cover individuals, both living and deceased, from every field of activity and from all are ... more information
Black Drama [Details]: When completed, this database will contain the full-text of 1,200 plays, written from the mid-1800s to the present, by more than 100 playwrights worldwide including such notables as Langston Hughes an ... more information
Contemporary Authors (Gale) [Details]: A source of biographical information on current authors in many fields and from many countries. Sketches provide personal facts, careers, writings, biographical sources, etc. Also search the Literatur ... more information
Encyclopedia of World Biography (Gale) [Details]: Includes entries of approximately 7,000 biographies on notables from every part of the world and from all time periods.
Marquis Who's Who on the Web [Details]: Searchable online database features comprehensive profiles on over 1 million of the most accomplished individuals in all fields of endeavor including: government, business, science & technology, the a ... more information
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Online [Details]: A reference work providing 50,000 specially-written signed biographies of the men and women who ##shaped all aspects of the British past, from the earliest times to the end of the year 2000. State-of- ... more information
Wilson Biographies Plus Illustrated (Wilson) [Details]: Includes full-text profiles of persons, living and deceased, and prominent in many professions including literature, art, music, film, politics, education and history. The up-to-date bibliographies in ... more information