Biography

Books

General Collection

The Terrebonne Library System offers a variety of biographies that are categorized alphabetically by individual.  Biographies chronicling multiple individuals are alphabetically categorized by author under the call number 92 in the biography section.

eBooks and Audiobooks

The Terrebonne Library System offers a variety of ebook and audiobook biographies that are searchable at the E-Library Co-Op under eBook Nonfiction.

Reference Books

American national biography/general editors, John A. Garraty, Mark C. CarnesCurrent biography yearbook (1940-2009)The McGraw-Hill encyclopedia of world biography: an international reference work

Oxford dictionary of national biography/edited by H.C.G. Matthew and Brian Harrison

The Scribner encyclopedia of American lives/Kenneth T. Jackson, editor in chief

Periodicals

Current Biography (available in print in the Reference section)

Biography (available in EBSCO)

Online Databases

Biography Collection Complete - A comprehensive collection of more than 177, 000 full-text biographies from many different sources, supporting history, science, the arts, music, literature, multicultural studies, gender studies, business, government & politics, sports, entertainment and many other areas.

Gale Biography in Context - Contains 600, 000+ biographies, covering more than 525, 000 individuals, drawn from 170+ award-winning Gale reference titles.  Search easily for biographies of people from particular profession, nationality, birth place, or era.  Includes newspaper, magazine, encyclopedia, and web sources.

Scriber Writers Series - The Scribner Writers Series includes more than 2, 400 essays on authors of all nationalities

Twayne’s Authors Series - Contains nearly 600 entries from Twayne’s U.S. Authors, Twayne’s English Authors, and Twayne’s World Authors.  Good source of author biographies.

Websites

Biography.com (The Biography Channel)

Project Gutenburg Biographies Bookshelf