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Biography Reference Source

Biographical reference collections and magazines, a comprehensive collection of full-text biographies, and thousands of unique narrative biographies.

This resource features over 460,000 full-text biographies from Angelina Jolie to Confucius and Alexander Fleming. Information is sourced from many popular biographical publications such as:

  • American National Biography;
  • Biography Today’s Complete Collection;
  • Biography’s Complete Collection;
  • Cambridge Dictionary of American Biography;
  • Hutchinson’s Biography;
  • People in the News Collection.

In addition to keyword searching, users can locate biographies of interest by browsing key categories, including occupation, nationality, publication, and more than 30 genre categories, including actors, artists, authors, current world leaders, explorers, religious leaders and many more.

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