Lafayette College Library

Scholarly biographical articles on people who have influenced American history and culture. (Does not include information on people still living.)

Web version of the Encyclopaedia Britannica.

Scholarly, biographical articles on noteworthy people who inhabited or were connected with the British Isles. (Does not include information on people still living.)

Electronic versions of Oxford dictionaries and other reference works covering many disciplines.

Short biographical sketches of Senate and House members from 1774-present. Includes photographs.

Encyclopedia covering the history of Jewish women. Includes thematic essays (e.g., abortion, Hadassah) as well as biographical entries.

Biographical articles from news and business publications as well as some directories of U.S. and European government officials. Useful for people currently in the news rather than historical figures.

The full text of several academic literary reference sources. Especially useful for finding lengthy, critical biographies of widely studied authors. Note that when you perform a subject search for an author's name you must enter the author's last name first.

Database containing extensive biographical information on authors as well as literary criticism, book reviews, and plot summaries.

Database of Nobel and Memorial Prize awards with biographies of the winners. (See also the Britannica Guide to the Nobel Prizes.)

Provides individual pages for 'identities' based on the personal and corporate names found in WorldCat. Typical entries show lists of the most common works written by and about an author, the genres in which they worked, subjects associated with them, and a graphical timeline showing their publication history.