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Biography

Resources for finding biographies, interviews, obituaries, profiles, and films.

General Biography Sources

Biography in Context and Marquis Who's Who (formerly Biography Resource Center)
Full-text biographical information on more than 150,000 people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas.

Current Biography Yearbook
Concise biographies of people in the news, published annually with monthly updates (1940-2014).
Biography Index
Ref. Z 5301 .B5 Look up a person to find citations to biographical articles in magazines and newspapers, 1946 to 2010-11.
Biography (A & E)
Website of the Arts & Entertainment Network's Biography channel.
Biography (journal)
A scholarly journal on the genre of biography.
Internet Movie Database - Film Biographies
Lists biographical feature films. Check GEORGE to see if Lauinger has the film.

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