Databases

Index to locating biographies in reference sources, current and retrospective, on individuals living and deceased from every field of activity and from all over the world.

Full text biographies on approx. 220,000 people from published biographical reference works and magazines, with web links.

Index to biographies published in serials and books from 1946-1983.

Biographical information on over 500,000 people from antiquity to present, including full text of Current Biography.

More than 450,000 full text biographies including the complete full text run of Biography Today and Biography Magazine.

Contains brief biographical Information on more than 149,000 modern novelists, poets, playwrights, nonfiction writers, journalists, and scriptwriters. Biographies typically include personal information, contact information, career history, writings, biographical and critical sources, authors' comments, and informative essays about their lives and work.

Search across Gale Research Complete resources, including periodicals, literature, primary sources, eBooks, business, and more.

Examines the lives and works of authors and illustrators for children and young adults. The collection includes both the main series and Something About the Author Autobiography Series, totaling more than 217 volumes, 12,000 entries, and nearly 17,000 images. Entries typically cover: personal life, career, writings, works in progress, adaptations, and additional sources. A cumulative author index is included in each odd-numbered volume.