Biographies

The General Collections and Humanities Center on the 3rd floor of the Main Library maintains a very strong circulating print biography collection as well as a library-use-only print reference collection.

Print collection

Aside from the many individual biographies, autobiographies and memoirs, the print collection includes the following multi-volume biographical reference sets:

• American National Biography

• Contemporary Authors: A Bio-bibliographical Guide

• Current Biography Yearbook 1955-

• Dictionary of Literary Biography 

• The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography 1892-1984

• Newsmakers 1988-

• Who's Who in America 1899-

Print biographies about performing and fine artists will be found on the 4th floor of the Main library in the Art, Music & Recreation Center.

Databases

These print collections are supplemented by the database Biography in Context.

Biographical Information Guide

For more information on biographical resources in the library, check out the Biographical Information Guide Web page.