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Biography Resources: Library Biography Resources

Find biographical information in reference, database, and online resources.

Library Databases

African-American History (FOF)

Covers more than 500 years of African-American experience, history and culture. Contains biographies of key people, events and topics. 

American History (FOF)

American History from prehistory to the present curated by leading scholars in American history. The database includes articles, images, primary source documents, timelines, videos, and slideshows.

Contemporary Authors

Contemporary Authors provides biographical information on more than 149,000 modern novelists, poets, playwrights, nonfiction writers, journalists and scriptwriters.

Gale Literature Resource Center

Gale Literature Resource Center provides up-to-date biographies, overviews, full-text criticisms, audio interviews, and reviews on writers from all eras. 

History Research Center

A searchable platform of all the Library's Facts on File History databases: African-American, American, Ancient & Medieval, and Modern World.

Master File Elite

This multidisciplinary database provides full text coverage of general interest subjects, and also includes reference books, image collections, maps and flags.

eBook Collections

Video collections

Multicultural Biographies - eBooks (samples)

Reference Books (samples)

UCNJ LibGuides at Union College