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Biography Subject Guide LRC@TCC

Call number areas to browse:  CT  
Keywords to search: biography and the person, place or event, or class of person you are seeking. e.g. Lincoln and biography, e.g. New York and biography, e.g. Civil War and biography, e.g. Scientists and biography.
Subjects to search (Library of Congress): Biography.  Search also under: subdivision Biography under names of countries, cities, etc., names of individual literary authors and corporate bodies, uniform titles of sacred works, and under classes of persons, ethnic groups, individual and groups of animals, and historic events.

Books in our catalog:
Gale Virtual Reference Library (r)
Biography and Genealogy Master Index (online) (r) 
Biography Index (Biography Reference Bank) (r) 
Current Biography (Biography Reference Bank) (r)
Library of American Biography
Who's Who . . . 

Library Resources (r): 
Biography Reference Bank Searchable full text database of more than 30,000 biographies and 8,000 obituaries. 
Literature Resource Center Full text biographies of authors and literary persons. 
Biography and Genealogy Master Index Indexes current, readily available reference sources, as well as the most important retrospective works that cover individuals, both living and deceased, from every field of activity and from all areas of the world.  One of the GaleNet databases. 

Internet Resources: 
American Presidents : Life Portraits

Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774-present provides more than 13,000 persons who served in the U.S. Congress, including the Continental Congress.

Biography.com 20,000 of the greatest lives, past and present.

Internet Public Library-Biographies Reference Links to many biographical pages such as celebrities, popes, women, painters, etc.

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