Biographical Resources

Biography
A searchable and browsable online collection of 15,000 cross-referenced biographies from A&E Television.
Biography & Genealogy Master Index (Duke only)
Indexes current, readily-available biographical reference sources. More Info
Biography Resource Center (Duke only)
A biographical source that culls from major reference works as well as less mainstream journals.
Contemporary Authors
Now part of the Literature Resource Center (see below)
Dictionary of Literary Biography
Now part of the Literature Resource Center (see below)
Dictionary of New Zealand Biography
Provides more than 3000 separate brief biographies on figures transplanted and aboriginal to New Zealand.
Literature Resource Center (Duke only)
Provides the full text of biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age, nation, language, and literary discipline.
Lives - the Biography Resource
Provides links to thousands of web-based biographies.
Basic Sources for British Biography
Materials available in the Duke University Libraries.
Who2
Brief biographies of famous persons, accessible through browse and search functions, as well as "loops" of individuals with common interests.
Who's Alive and Who's Dead
"Helps you keep track of which famous people have died and which are still alive."