Biography Resource Center
The Biography Resource Center combines nearly 414,000 biographies on more than 320,000 people from over 840 volumes of more than 135 respected Gale Group sources such as Contemporary Authors, Encyclopedia of World Biography, Newsmakers, Contemporary Theater, Film, and Television, Contemporary Musicians, Historic World Leaders, Notable Twentieth-Century Scientists, Contemporary Black Biography, Religious Leaders of America, International Dictionary of Art and Artists, and Writers Directory, with full-text articles from more than 265 magazines including American History, The Christian Century, Saturday Night, and U.S. News & World Report.

Encyclopedia of World Biography World - 2 ed. Detroit: Gale, 2004. 9443 pp. 23 vols. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Thomson Gale.
Originally published in 1973 by McGraw Hill, this authoritative set represents the first complete revision in 25 years. This edition includes approximately 2,000 more entries than the first, with more women, multicultural and international coverage, bringing the total to approximately 7,000 biographies on notables from every part of the world and from all time periods. Includes thousands of photos, a consolidated index, and more. Each Supplement adds approximately 200 new biographies.

Literature Resource Center-LRC -
Literature Resource Center provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline. Combining Gale Group's core literary databases in a single online service, the Literature Resource Center covers more than 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,500 of the most-studied authors.