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Finding Biographies

Find information about a person.

LEO Library Catalog (JMU)
Find book-length biographies in JMU Libraries. Search by Subject for Lastname, Firstname. Use the stack guide to locate the call number.
Internet
Biography Resource Center (Gale)
Full-text biographical information on over 340,000 people.
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Literature Resource Center (Gale)
Full-text biographical information on literary figures.
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American National Biography (Oxford University Press)
Full-text biographical information for notable people in American history. Living persons not included.
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Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Online (Oxford University Press)
Full-text biographical information for notable people in British history. Living persons not included.
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Biography and Genealogy Master Index (Gale)
Indexes more than 10 million biographical sketches from reference books. Find a citation and then look in LEO to see if JMU Libraries has the reference book it is in.
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