Research Guides: English 418: Creative Writing Capstone: Info Lit Session II (Literary Biography)

Biographical Resources

Oxford African American Studies Center (5 users)(Discontinued) This link opens in a new window
A collection of scholarship, including 8,000 articles and primary source documents, focusing on the lives and events which have shaped African American and African history and culture.

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ProQuest Historical New York Times This link opens in a new window
Full digital images of the New York Times, 1851-present, and the Wall Street Journal, 1889-present.

CREDO Reference This link opens in a new window
A collection of nearly 500 encyclopedias, dictionaries, and other reference books provides a good starting point for research.
Gale Literature Resource Center This link opens in a new window
Full-text literary criticism and reviews and author biographical information on nearly 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world.
MagillOnLiterature (Discontinued) This link opens in a new window
Plot summaries, author biographies, book reviews and critical analyses of frequently studied works of literature.