Indexes
 

** Biography and Genealogy Master Index	Online and  Indexes, Ref. CT214.B572
** Biography Index	Indexes, Ref. CT214.B68
*   Index to Marquis Who's Who Publications	Ref. Z5301.M37

 

General Information
 

** Webster's Biographical Dictionary	Ref. CT103.W4 1980
** Current Biography & Current Biography Yearbook	Ref. CT100.C8
** Who's Who in America	Ref. E663.W56
** American Men and Women of Science	Ref. Q141.A472
** Cambridge Biographical Dictionary	Ref. CT103.C4 1990
*   Biography Almanac	Ref. CT104.B5 1987
*   Who's Who	Ref. DA28.W6
*   International Who's Who	Ref. CT120.I5
*   Pseudonyms and Nicknames Dictionary	Ref. CT120.P8
*   Cambridge Biographical Encyclopedia	Ref. CT103  .C26 1994
*   Dictionary of Scientific Biography	Ref. Q141.D5
#   Who's Who of American Women	Ref. E176.W647
#   Biographical Dictionary of Musicians	Ref. ML105.B16 1992
#   Who's Who in the West	Ref. F595.W64
#   Who's Who in American Art	Ref. N6536.W5
#   Who's Who in American Education	Ref. LA2311  .W47

Historical
 

** Dictionary of American Biography  & Index	Ref. E176.D56
*   Dictionary of National Biography	Ref. DA28.D45a
*   Who Was Who in America	Ref. E176.W64
*   National Cyclopedia of American Biography	Ref. E176.N28

Authors
 

** Contemporary Authors	Online & Ref. Z1224.C6
** Something about the Author	Ref. PN451.S6
*   Dictionary of Literary Biography	Ref. PN451 .D538
*   Junior Book of Authors	Ref. PN1009.A1  K8 1951
*   Fourth Book of Junior Authors & Illustrators	Ref. PN1009.A1F6
*   Author Biographies Master Index	Ref. CT214.B64 1984
#   World Authors, 1980-1985	Ref. PN451.W672 1991

 

Questions to Consider:

Which sources give information about living people?  Which give information about dead people?  Which give information about both?

Are the entries very short, giving only cursory information, or do they give detailed information about the person and their background?

Which sources give pictures or photographs of the person?

Which sources give information only about well-known people? Which give information about not so well-known people?
 
 

Sample questions for biographies:

I'd like to find an obituary on Jim Henson.
 
 

Where did children's author Zilpha Keatly Snyder go to college?
 
 

Is Alice Heinecke Prager married?  What's her husband's name?
 
 

I need to look up several articles about President Clinton.
 
 

Where can I write to my favorite actor, Johnny Depp?
 
 

My friend told me Jacques Cousteau has won an academy award.  What was it for?
 
 

I need a few pages of background on General Colin Powell for a paper I'm doing.
 
 

I'm doing my dissertation about Amelia Earhart and I need something that lists books and articles and other information about her.