Biography: Authors Study Guide

To start your research, SCC Library Information Specialists suggest:

• LINCC Online Catalog Subject Browse Lists linked to SCC Library holdings including the Call Number & Availability for each.
• LINCC Online Catalog Title Lists linked to SCC Library holdings including the Call Number & Availability for each.
• Suggested Periodical Databases
• Print Indexes including the Call Number & Availability for each.
• Internet Links

  LINCC Online Catalog Subject Browse Lists

  These subject headings are linked to SCC LRC holdings & includes Call Numbers.):

  • African American authors Biography
  • African American authors Bibliography
  • American fiction Women authors Bio bibliography
  • American fiction Women authors Dictionaries
  • American literature Hispanic American authors
  • American literature Mexican American authors
  • American literature Women Authors
  • Authors American
  • Authors American Florida Biography
  • Authors Biography Dictionaries
  • Authors Biography Indexes
  • Authors English
  • Authors European
  • Dramatists American
  • Dramatists English
  • English literature Women authors
  • Literature Bio bibliography
  • Novelists American 20th century Biography Dictionaries
  • Novelists English 20th century Biography Dictionaries
  • Poets American 20th century Biography Dictionaries
  • Poets English 20th century Biography Dictionaries
  • Popular literature Dictionaries
  • Science fiction American Bio bibliography
  • Science fiction English Bio bibliography
  • Twentieth-century American literature
  • Women authors American Biography Dictionaries
  • Women authors English Biography Dictionaries.
    

  LINCCSearch Title Searches linked to SCC Library holdings including the Call Number & Availability for each.

  • American Authors 1600-1900
  • Black American fiction: a bibliography
  • Black American fiction since 1952
  • Black American Writers
  • British authors of the nineteenth century
  • British women writers
  • Contemporary Authors
  • Contemporary dramatists
  • Contemporary novelists
  • Contemporary poets
  • Contemporary theatre, film, and television
  • Cyclopedia of world authors II
  • Encyclopedia of world literature in the 20th century
  • European authors, 1000-1900
  • Great writers of the English language
  • Index to literary biography
  • Major modern dramatists
  • Penguin companion to English literature
  • Research guide to biography and criticism
  • Twentieth century authors
  • Twentieth Century Authors-First Supplement
  • World authors, 1950-1970
  • World authors, 1970-1975

  Suggested Databases

   

• On the Research Quick Start page, find Locate Periodical Articles in Online Databases. Find & click LINCCWeb Online Databases.Logon. On the "Advanced Search" screen, click List All Databases (Alphabetical). Click the database name. A new window opens. Follow searching directions in individual databases.
• Academic Search Elite (EBSCO).
• Biography index which is part of OmniFile Full Text Mega Edition is not full text. You will get more complete results by searching OmniFile Full Text Mega Edition (Wilson). Full Text by Journal Title.
• Biography Resource Center (Gale) Full Text
• Gale's Literary Index
• Literature Resource Center (Gale)
  

Internet Links

• African American Women Writers of the 19th Century (NY Public Library's Schomburg Center)
• American Authors on the Web
• American Writers (C-SPAN)
• Author Webliography
• Biography (A&E)
• Books On-line: Authors
• Celebration of Women Writers (UPenn)
• Contemporary Authors accessed through Literature Resource Center
• Dictionary of Literary Biography accessed through Literature Resource Center
• Dramatists
• Poets
• Poets & Writers Online
• Short Story Authors
• Twayne's United States Authors accessed through Literature Resource Center

Print Indexes Available in the Library

• Authors: critical and biographical references
• Biography index
• Essay and general literature index

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