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Biographical Resources: Books

Book Sources

  • Almanac of Famous People
    REF CT 104 .B56
  • American National Biography
    REF CT 213 .A68
  • Current Biography
    REF CT 103 .C8
  • Dictionary of Universal Biography of all Ages and all Peoples
    REF CT 103 .H9
  • International Dictionary of 20th Century Biography
    REF CT 103
  • McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Biography
    REF CT 120 .T45
  • Newsmaker
    REF CT 120 .C664
  • Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives
    REF CT 213 .S37
  • Thinkers of the Twentieth Century
    REF CT 120 .T45
  • Who Was Who in America
    REF E 176 .W64

Updated March 26, 2010 - Alexandra Rojas

  • Encyclopedia of the Peoples of the World
    REF GN 495.4 E53

Updated March 26, 2010 - Alexandra Rojas

  • American Inventors, Entrepreneurs, and Business Visionaries
    REF CT214 .C29

Updated March 26, 2010 - Alexandra Rojas

  • Leaders in Education; a Biographical Directory
    REF LA2311 L4

Updated March 26, 2010 - Alexandra Rojas

  • Black Women in American History
    REF E 185.86 .B543
  • Contemporary Black Biography
    REF E 185. 96 .C66
  • Dictionary of National Biography
    REF DA 28 D56
  • Great Lives from History
    REF CT 113 .G745
  • Who’s Who Among Black Americans
    REF E 185.96 W52

Updated March 26, 2010 - Alexandra Rojas

  • American Writers; a Collection of Literary Biographies
    REF PS 129 A55
  • Black Literature Criticisms
    Reference Desk
  • Dictionary of Literary Biography
    REF PN 451 .D5
  • Latin American Writers
    REF PQ 7081 A1 L37
  • Something About the Author
    REF PN451 .S6

Updated March 26, 2010 - Alexandra Rojas

  • Biographical Dictionary of Mathematicians
    REF QA 28 .B534

Updated March 26, 2010 - Alexandra Rojas

  • International Encyclopedia of Psychiatry, Psychology, Psychoanalysis and Neurology
    REF RC 334 I5

Updated March 26, 2010 - Alexandra Rojas

  • Contemporary Master Works
    REF N6490 .C65675
  • Encyclopedia of World Art
    REF N31 .E533
  • New Groves Dictionary of Music and Musicians
    REF ML100 .G8863
  • World Film Directors
    REF PN 1998.2 .W67

Updated March 26, 2010 - Alexandra Rojas

  • Encyclopedia of the United States Congress
    REF JK 1067 .E63

Updated March 26, 2010 - Alexandra Rojas

  • American Men and Women of Science
    REF Q 141 A47

Updated March 26, 2010 - Alexandra Rojas

  • International Sciences Biographical Supplement
    REF H40 A2 I5

Updated March 26, 2010 - Alexandra Rojas

  • Encyclopedia of Sports
    REF GV 565 .N48
  • Notable Sport Figures
    REF GV 697 .A1 .N68

Updated March 26, 2010 - Alexandra Rojas

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