Biographical Resources

Books | Web Sites and Databases

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Books

General Biographical Sources | Anthropology | Business | Education | History | Literature | Mathematics | Medicine |
Music and the Arts | Political Science | Science | Social Science | Sports

General Biographical 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

Anthropology:

• Encyclopedia of the Peoples of the World
  REF GN 495.4 E53
• Business:
• American Inventors, Entrepreneurs, and Business Visionaries
  REF CT214 .C29

Education:

• Leaders in Education; a Biographical Directory
  REF LA2311 L4

History:

• 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

Literature:

• 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

Mathematics:

• Biographical Dictionary of Mathematicians
  REF QA 28 .B534

Medicine:

• International Encyclopedia of Psychiatry, Psychology, Psychoanalysis and Neurology
  REF RC 334 I5
• Music and the Arts:
• 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

Political Science:

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

Science:

• American Men and Women of Science
  REF Q 141 A47

Social Science:

• International Sciences Biographical Supplement
  REF H40 A2 I5

Sports:

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

Web Sites and Databases

• Biography.com — http://www.biography.com
  Biographies on more than 25,000 individuals, living and deceased.
• *Biography Index – Wilson Web — Available via our online databases
  Indexes people form antiquity to the present.
• *Credo Reference: Biography — Available via our online databases
  Searches several biographical reference works.
• *Gale Literary Databases — Available via our online databases
  Information on thousands of past and current authors.
• Librarians' Index to the Internet: Biography — http://www.lii.org
  Links to specialized biographical sites.

*requires a LaGuardia ID for Off-campus access Updated January 12, 2009 - Alexandra Rojas