Humanities Librarian
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5787-2609Author Biographies: Selected Reference Works
It can sometimes be difficult to locate biographical information about a children's author.
- These reference books can help if your author published prior to 2007. Some titles revealed by this search are particularly useful for identifying and then finding information about authors of color.
- In Literature Resource Center, click "Person Search"; enter "Children's writer" into the Occupation field.
Poets' and Fiction Writers' Biography:
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American Writers for Children Since 1960: Fiction
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Call Number: Gitenstein Library E-BOOKISBN: 0810317303Publication Date: 1986-08-18Vol. 52 of the Dictionary of Literary Biography -
American Writers for Children Since 1960: Poets, Illustrators, and Nonfiction Authors [Dictionary of Literary Biography]
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Call Number: Gitenstein Library E-BOOKISBN: 0810317397Publication Date: 1987-08-28Vol,. 61 of the Dictionary of Literary Biography
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Poetry People: A Practical Guide to Children's Poets
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Call Number: Curriculum Reference Collection PS309.C48 V37 2007ISBN: 9781591584438Publication Date: 2007-06-30
Historical United States and British Biography:
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American National Biography
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Call Number: CT213 .A68 1999ISBN: 0195206355Publication Date: 1999-01-21The ANB is the go-to reference work for finding credible information about the lives of significant persons in American history. Locate Americans by "occupations and realms of renown" such as Animal Rights Activists, Black Nationalists, Civil Rights Leaders, Gay Rights Activists, Social Reformers, Suffragists, and many other occupations. Brief but highly useful bibliographic essays accompany each entry. These point researchers to the most important secondary biographies but also to repositories of collected papers and other primary source ephemera. -
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
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The standard reference work for British biography. Extensive bibliographic essays accompany many entries.
Call Number: DA28 .O95 2004ISBN: 019861411XPublication Date: 2004-09-23
