Wilson Biographies

Description

Wilson Biographies provides biographical information about more than 38,000 persons from a wide range of fields including writers, musicians, composers, film directors, and Nobel laureates. The biographies are searchable by name, profession, title, place of origin, gender, race/ethnicity, date of birth, date of death, and keyword.

Leads to full-text biographies from a variety of H. W. Wilson reference sources including Current Biography Yearbook and World Authors. Many of the biographies also include supplemental citations from Biography Index to update the articles.

Dates Covered

Dates for source materials vary but people included can be from any time in history, antiquity to the present. Updated monthly.

Print Counterpart

There is no equivalent print source, although the UB Libraries have many of the titles that make up the database, most notably:

Current Biography Yearbook
Lockwood Reference
Undergraduate Reference
CALL NUMBER: CT 100 .C8, 1940-present

World Authors
Lockwood Reference (1900-1985)
CALL NUMBER: PN 451 .W3 etc.

Related Databases

· Biography and Genealogy Master Index

Access Notes

Off-Campus Access to Libraries resources requires a UBITName and password.

Contact

Don Hartman