Blough-Weis Library: Diversity Studies: Biographical Info

Biographical Information

Gale In Context: Biography This link opens in a new window
Look up well-known figures to find biographical information and citations to book reviews, news articles, and more.
Full-text biographical information from the Who's Who volumes and 250 periodicals; news articles, thumbnail and narrative biographies.

For articles and background information about well-known persons and their works, including citations to news and reviews, try the sources below.

Who's Who in Gay and Lesbian History: From Antiquity to World War II
Biographies of well-known figures.
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"Reference work on the key men and women in the history of homosexuality from antiquity to the middle of the twentieth century. It includes biographies, with references, on figures - famous, notorious or unknown - in politics, social activism, culture and the arts, medicine, religion and other fields throughout Europe, North and South America, South Africa and Australasia."

Gale Literature Resource Center This link opens in a new window
Has biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors and their works. You can search by languages including French, German, and Spanish.
Oxford Music Online This link opens in a new window
Search here for information about composers and their works.

Biographical Information about Women
Research guide page with links to resources and books at our library about famous woman.
Dictionary of Literary Biography
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This gigantic set provides multipage entries on authors in a variety of genres with pictures and biographical information. Use the index in back of most recent volume to find entry by author name.
Research Guides
Are you researching a person who is well-known in another discipline or field, such as Communications, Film, or Science? If so, check out a research guide on that topic to find more specialized sources, including books and encyclopedias with biographical information.