History: Biography: Home

A guide to biographical information sources.

Printed Biographical Dictionaries

The UW Libraries has hundreds of printed biographical dictionaries covering all countries and occupations. To find these dictionaries, search for: biography dictionaries in UW Libraries Search. For example:

biography dictionaries medicine
biography dictionaries women
biography dictionaries japan

Image: Toni Morrison courtesy of the Nebraska Library Commission

Biography of the Day

Major Biography Collections

American National Biography
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Gale in Context: Biography
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Literature Resource Center
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Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
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Sackler Archive Resource

World Biographical Information System Online
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Major Biographical Collections on Microfiche

The following microfilmed biographical sets are indexed by the World Biographical Index listed above. The sets are housed in the Microforms & Newspapers Collection on the ground floor of Suzzallo.