Guides: Theatre Arts: Biographies

Biographical Information

Franklin, the library catalog
Search for print biographies of your subject.

Oxford Reference Online
Includes Dictionary of Banking and Finance, Oxford Business French Dictionary, Oxford Business Spanish Dictionary, Dictionary of Accounting, Dictionary of Economics, and Dictionary of Statistics
American National Biography
A source of biographical information on Americans of significance. Entries include people who have died before 1996.

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
World Biographical Information System Online
Containing 3.2 million. short biographical entries for eminent individuals who lived in North and South America, Western and Central Europe, Africa, Australia, New Zealand, and Oceania.

Literature Resource Center
Biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on nearly 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world.

Gale's Literary Index
Master index to the major literature series published by The Gale Group. It combines and cross references more than 130,000 author names, including pseudonyms and variant names, and more than 140,000 titles into one source.
International Bibliography of Theatre and Dance
Search for scholarly and magazine articles about notable people in the world of theatre.

MLA International Bibliography
Search for scholarly articles about notable people in the world of theatre.

How to Search for a Biography in Franklin

Try searching for books in Franklin, the library catalog. Search for the subject's name and the word "biography" as a subject heading keyword search:

Nothing in Franklin? You can see if biographies are available at other libraries using WorldCat.org. If you find a biography there, do a BorrowDirect/EZBorrow Search to see if we can get it via interlibrary loan. To search in WorldCat, go the Advanced Search, select Subject as your field, and try a similar search: