Biographical Information

History

BIOGRAPHICAL GUIDES, INDEXES AND GENEALOGIES

Anonymous	1949-ff	Biography index: a cumulative index to biographical material in books and magazines. H.W. Wilson, New York, NY.
Burke, Sir John B.	1965	Genealogical and heraldric history of the landed gentry. 18th ed. Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London. CS425.B82 (Vol. 1 only)
Hyamson, Albert.	1951	A dictionary of universal biography for all ages and all peoples. 2nd. ed. Routledge and Kegan Paul, London. REF CT103.H9 1951a
Kaplan, Louis, et.al.	1961	A bibliography of American autobiographies. University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, WI. REF Z1224.K3
Ireland, Norma O.	1970	Index to women of the world from ancient to modern times: a supplement. Scarecrow Press, Meacham, NY. REF HQ1123.I73 Suppl.
McNeil, Barbara and Miranda C. Herbert	1980	Historical biographical dictionaries master index: a consolidated index to biographical information concerning historical personages in over 35 of the principal retrospective biographical dictionaries. Gale REsearch Co., Detroit, MI. REF Z5305.U5 H57

BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARIES: UNIVERSAL

Anonymous	1806	Biographie moderne, ou dictionnaire biographique, de tous les hommes morts et vivans. 4 vols. Paul-Jacques Besson, Leipzig. DC145.B55
	1941-ff	Current Biography: who's news and why or current biography yearbook. H.W. Wilson, New York, NY. REF CT100.C8
	1988	Webster's biographical dictionary: a dictionary of names of noteworthy persons with pronunciations and concise biographies. G. and C. Merriam & Co., Springfield, MA. REF CT103.W4
Barnhart, Clarence L. ed.	1954	The new century cyclopedia of names. 3 vols. Appleton Century Crofts, New York, NY. REF PE1625.C43 1954
Burnett, John, et.al.	1984-89	The autobiography of the working class: an annotated critical bibliography. vol. 1: 1790-1900. New York University Press, New York, NY. HD8393.A1 B821 1984
Clark, Barrett H. ed.	1932	Great short biographies of ancient times: the middle ages and the renaissance. Albert and Charles Boni, New York, NY. CT104.C47
Frey, Albert R.	1966	Sobriquets and nicknames. Ticknor and Com., Boston, MA (Republished by Gale Research Company, Detroit, MI 1966) REF CT108.F7 1966
Launay, Andre J.	1967	Dictionary of contemporaries. Philosophical Library, New York, NY. REF D11.L3
Michaud, Joseph Francois	1843-65	Biographie universelle: ancienne et moderne. 6 vols. Mmde. C. Desplaces, Paris. REF CT141.W45
Magill, Frank N., ed.	1999	Dictionary of world biography. Vol. 4. The 17th and 18th Centuries. Fitzroy and Dearborn Publishers, Chicago and London/Salem Press, Pasadena and Hackensack, NJ. REF CT104.D54 1999
Snodgrass, Mary Ellen	2001	Who's Who in the middle ages. McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, Jefferson, NC and London. REF CT 114.S56 2001

BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARIES: NATIONAL

Anonymous	1885-ff..	Who was who in America. 8 vols. A.W. Marquis, Chicago, IL. REF E663.W54
	2004	Oxford dictionary of national biography. 60 vols. Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York. REF DA28.D4 O95
	1897-ff.	Who was who: a companion to Who's who...(British) Adam and Charles Black, London. REFda28.W65
	1907-ff.	Who's who (British) St. Martin's Press, New York, NY REF DA28.W6 (Lists people alive at time of issue. LC has scattered issues from 1907)
	1928-ff.	Who's who in America. A.W. Marquis. E663.W56
		Who's who of American women. A.W. Marquis, Chicago, IL. REF DESK E176.W647
Boase, Frederic	1965	Modern English biography, containing many thousands concise memoirs of persons who have died between the years 1851-1900 with an index of the most interesting matter. 6 vols. Frank Cass, London. REF CT773.B6
Cattell, Jacques, ed.	1967-ff.	Who's who in American politics. Bowker, New York, NY. REF E176.W6424. (Latest issue in REF, older ones in Stacks)
Boorman, Howard L., ed.	1967-71	Biographical dictionary of Republican China. 4 vols. + index. Columbia University Press, New York, NY. REF DS778.A1 B5
McGill, Raymond D.,ed.	1893-84-ff.	The national cyclopedia of American biography. James T. White & Co., New York. NY. REF E176.N2813 v.43-
Malone, Dumas, el.al.,eds.	1935-ff.	Dictionary of American biography. 20 vols. + Supps. and index. C.Scribner's Sons, New York, NY. REF E176.D562
Pike, Douglas	2007	Australian dictionary of biography. Melbourne Univeristy Press, Melbourne. 16 vols and index. REF DU82.A9
Routh, C.R.N., ed.	1960	Who's who in history. Blackwells, Oxford. DA28.W618 vols. 1 & 2
Schuyler, Robert Livingston, ed.	1966-ff.	Dictionary of Canadian biography. 20 vols. University of Toronto, Toronto. REF F1005.D49 (v.1-14 + index in collection)
Werner, Michael S.	1997	Title Encyclopedia of Mexico : history, society & culture. REF F1005.D49 (v.1-14 + index in collection)

BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARIES: OCCUPATIONAL

ART AND ARCHITECTURE

Bunton, Donald, Jr., et.al.	1940-ff.	Who's who in American art. Marquis Who's Who, New Providence, NJ. REF N6536.W5
Carr,James F.	1965	Mantle Fielding's dictionary of American painters, sculptors and engravers with an addendum conatining corrections and additional material on the original entries. James F. Carr Publisher, New York, NY. REF N6536.F5 1965
Cederholm, Theresa Dickason, ed.	1973	Afro-American artists: a bio-bibliographical directory. Trustees of the Boston Public Library. REF N6538.N5 C42
Cerrito, Joann, ed.	1996	Contemporary artists. 4th ed. St. James Press, New York, NY. REF N6490.C6567 1996
Gaze, Delia, ed.	1997	Dictionary of women artists. 2 vols. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, London and Chicago. REF N8354.D53 1997
Groce, George C. and David H. Wallace	1957	The New York Historical Society's dictionary of artists in America, 1564-1860. Yale University Press, New Haven and London. REF N6536.N4
Hillstrom, Laurie Collier and Kevin Hillstrom,eds.	1999	Contemporary women artists.St. James Press/Gale Group, Detroit, MI. REF N8354.C66 1999
Kovinick, Phil and Marian Yoshiki-Kovinick	1998	An encyclopedia of women artists of the American West. Univseristy of Texas Press, Austin. TX. REF N8214.5.U6 K68 1998
Lester, Patrick D.	1995	The biographical dictionary of native American painters. Sir Publications, Tulsa, OK. REF N6536.L47 1995
Placzek, Adolf K., ed.	1982	Macmillan encyclopedia of architects. 4 vols. The Free Press/Collier Macmillan Publishers. London. REF NA40.M25 1982
Samuels, Peggy and Harold	1976	The illustrated biographical encyclopedia of artists of the American West. Doubleday & Co., Inc. Garden City, NY. REF N8214.5.U6 S25
Vynckt, Randall L., ed.		International dictionary of architects and architecture. 2 vols. St. James Press, Detroit, London, Washington, DC. REF NA40.I48 1993

AUTHORS

Allibone, Samuel	1858-71	A critical dictionary of English literature and British and American authors, living and deceased, from the earliest account to the latter half of the nineteenth century. 3 vol. in 6 J.B. Lippincott & Co., Philadelphia, 1858 (facsimile reprint). REF PN 451.A4317 1989 6 vols.
Kirk, John Foster	1908	A supplement to Allibone's critical dictionary of English literature and British and American authors. 2 vols. J.B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia and London. 1908. REF PN451.A4317 Suppl. 1908 vol.1 and 2.
Anonymous	1962-ff	Contemporary authors: a bio-bibliographical guide to current authors and their works. Gale Research Company, Detroit, MI. (192 vols. through 2002). REF PN771.C68
	1978-ff.	Dictionary of literary biography. Gale Research Company/The Gale Group, Detroit, MI. (Literary biographyl 1978-ff.; Yearbooks, 1980-ff.; documentary series, 1982-ff., 240 vols. through 2002) REF PS21.D5
Dawdy, Doris Ostrander	1974-85	Artists of the American West: a biographical dictionary. 3 vols. Sage Books, chicago, IL. REF N6536.D3
Kinsman, Claire	1975	Contemporary authors: a bio-bibliographical guide to current authors and their works. Gale Research, Detroit, MI. REF PN771.C68 (Related series shelved with this; all series under title have common index online)
	1997	Biographical directory of the American congress, 1774-1996. CQ Stagg Directories, Inc., Alexandria, VA. REF JK1010.A5
Kunitz, Stanley J. and Howard Haycraft, eds.	1938	American authors, 1600-1900: a biographical dictionary of American literature. H.W. Wilson Co., New York, NY. REF PS21.K8

POLITICAL LEADERS

Treese, Joel D., et.al.,eds.

1997

Biographical directory of the American Congress, 1774-1996. CQ Staff Directories, Inc./A Congressional Quarterly Company, Alexandria, VA. REF JK1010.A5 1997

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