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Biography.com
http://www.biography.com/
Search or browse 25,000 biographies of notable personalities
from antiquity to the present. The profiles range from one paragraph
to several. Searchable by name of person only. Entries include dates,
career information, and alternate spellings/versions of the name.
More recent entries can include photograph, list of works, video,
and related Web links. Material comes from the Cambridge Encyclopedia
Database, the Cambridge Dictionary of American Biography, as well
as the A&E family that includes the Biography and History Channels
and Biography Mgazine.
World Biographical Index http://www.saur-wbi.de/wbi_eng/main.htm
This database contains about 2.5 million short biographical
entries for prominent individuals who lived in North and South America,
Western and Central Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and Oceania. The
entry for each person contains the name, variations of the name, pseudonyms,
the years of birth and death, or years mentioned, occupation, source
quoted, and bibliographic information about the sources used. It is
also a compiled index to many biographical archives, giving archive
name and fiche number. Based on the 6th, CD-ROM edition (K.G. Saur,
1999).
Lives, the Biography Resource http://amillionlives.com/
Extensive, annotated directory of links to sites that
focus on the lives of individuals or groups of people, worthwhile
collections of links to other biographical resources, primary biographical
source material such as images, diaries, memoirs, correspondence,
interviews, oral histories, etc., and good biographical dictionaries.
There are special pages featuring African Americans, Women, U.S. Civil
War, Holocaust Survivors and Rescuers, and Canadians. In addition
there are indexes by collections, professions, eras, regions, and
criticism, as well as by individual. The site is also searchable.
Pegasos: Literature Related Resources http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi
This site has good biographical material, print resource
lists for further reading, and selected lists of works, on close to
1,000 authors. The material is translated from Finnish to English
and sometimes suffers from the process. Excellent resource if you
don't have access to your library and works such as Dictionary of
Literary Biography or Contemporary Authors. The primary arrangement
is as a calendar by author's date of birth. There's also an alphabetical
index of all authors and one of just the Nordic writers.
Malaspina Great Books Five Star Sites http://www.mala.bc.ca/~mcneil/fivestar.htm
More than 300 important authors, artists, and philosophers
are covered at this site. A page has been created for each author,
which lists evaluated Web resources and links to books covering aspects
of their life and work.(slow loading, but good information available)
Biographical
Dictionary http://www.s9.com/biography/
Includes more than 28,000 brief biographies of notable
men and women covering ancient times to the present day. The dictionary
can be searched by names, dates, positions held, professions, literary
and artistic works, achievements, and other keywords. Includes suggested
ways to use for students and teachers and an annotated list of other
biographical resources on the Internet. Updated regularly.
NameBase Index http://www.pir.org/
Nearly 200,000 citations covering more than 90,000
individual and organizational proper names from approximately 500
investigative books published since 1962 and thousands of periodicals
from 1973. Covers academia, high tech, media, political figures, the
international intelligence community, U.S. foreign policy, religion,
crime, business and more. Can browse the Web site by name or category.
Contact Robert
Jaquay, Library Director
To make suggestions about this
site, to report dead links, or for information related to Biography
resources you may contact Mr. Jaquay at:
William K. Sanford Town Library
629 Albany Shaker Road
Loudonville, NY 12211
Phone: (518) 458-9274
Fax: (518) 438-0988
E-mail: jaquayr@uhls.lib.ny.us
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