Research Guides: Cinema Studies (UNH Durham): Biographies

Biographies

Dictionary of Literary Biography Complete
Biographical and critical essays on the lives, works, and careers of the world's most influential literary figures from all eras and genres

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Gale In Context: Biography This link opens in a new window
Offers over 600,000 biographies spanning history and geography with new and/or updated biographies added annually.

American National Biography
"portraits of more than 17,400 men & women... whose lives have shaped the nation."
Subjects who died before1995.
Current Biography
"Up-to-date biographies of the men and women who make today’s headlines and tomorrow’s history." 1940-present.
This item is in the print Reference Collection in Dimond Level 3. All other links are to online sources.
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
The "people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond." For people who died before 2012.