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BIOGRAPHY

 

Reference books provide information about people from ancient history through the twentieth century. This is not the place to find information about someone who is relatively young, recently famous, or in the news today . You can also search the Online Catalog, using the person's last name as a subject, to see if we own any books about that person. The sources below each will profile many people. For a movie about a person's life, search "biographical films" as a subject heading.

Books :: Databases :: Websites

BOOKS

Almanac of Famous People
REF CT 104 .B49

American Childhoods: An Anthology
CT 215 .A665 1987

American Men and Women of Science
REF Q 141 .A47

Biographical Dictionary of Psychology
REF BF 109 .A1 Z85

Chambers Biographical Dictionary
REF CT 103 .C4 1986

Current Biography
REF CT 100 .C8

Dictionary of American Biography
REF E 176 .D563

Dictionary of Literary Biography
REF PS 21 .D5 1978

Dictionary of National Biography (British)
REF DA 28 .D57

Dictionary of Scientific Biography
REF Q 141 .D5

Encyclopedia of World Biography
REF CT 103 .E56

The Great Scientists
REF Q 141 .G767

The International Dictionary of 20th-Century Biography
REF CT 103 .V38 1987

 

Lifelines: Famous Contemporaries from 600 B.C. to 1975
REF CT 104 .W45

The McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Biography
CT 103 .M27

The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians
REF ML 100 .N48

New York Times Great Lives of the Twentieth Century
CT 120 .N46 1988

Newsmakers
REF CT 120 .C663

Nobel Prize Winners: An H.W. Wilson Biographical Dictionary
REF AS 911.N9 N59 1987

The Nobel Prize Winners: Chemistry
REF QC 25 .N63

The Nobel Prize Winners: Physics
REF QD 35 .N64

Notable American Women: The Modern Period
REF CT 3260 .N573

Portraits of Pioneers in Psychology
REF BF 109 .A1 P67

Who's Who in America
REF E 663 .W56

Who's Who of American Women
REF CT 3260 .W5

The Who's Who of Nobel Prize Winners
REF AS 911 .N9 W53 1986

DATABASES

Biography databases are available at http//www.pvc.maricopa.edu/library/databases/biography.html

Databases can provide current information about contemporary people. Use a general database to find information on a person whose profession you don't know. Use a subject specific database to find information on a person in a particular field. For example, if you know the person is an expert on learning disabilities, you would search ERIC . If the person is a famous writer, you would use Gale's Literature Resource Center.

 

WEBSITES

Check the link below to access various Biography websites.

PVCC Internet Links -- Biography http://www.pvc.maricopa.edu/library/internetlinks/reference.htm#Biography

 

 

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