Library Guides: Journalism: Author Biographical Information

Finding Biographical Information

Databases of Biographical Information

Check these searchable databases for information on a celebrity or otherwise famous person.

Biography Reference Bank
Find information on more than a half million individuals, both historical and current.
Biography in Context
Provides biographical information of more than one million people throughout history, around the world and across all disciplines and subject areas. Searchable by birth and death years and places, nationality, ethnicity, occupation or gender.
Marquis Who's Who (in Nexis Uni)
First limit your search to The Complete Marquis Who's Who (R) Biographies. Now you can look for names, and get brief bio info.
Literature Resource Center
This literature database includes information on many writers.

Magazine & Newspaper Articles

Magazine and newspaper articles can also provide biographical information.

ArticlesPlus for Magazines
After you search for a person, use the checkbox on the left side of the page to limit your results to magazines.
Access World News (America's Newspapers)
America's Newspapers lets you search across many different newspapers. Try limiting to the lead/first paragraph when you search for the name of your celebrity.

Books about People

Many famous people will have either an autobiography or biography published about them. Use ALICE to search for books available from the Ohio University Libraries or expand your search to OhioLINK if the book you need isn't available from the Ohio University Libraries.

Try using a subject search to find books about a particular person (Last Name, First Name). Example: books about Obama, Barack.