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FINDING BIOGRAPHIES IN THE SANTIAGO CANYON COLLEGE LIBRARY

FINDING BIOGRAPHIES IN THE BOOK STACKS

To find biographies in the SSC Library, select Find Books from the SCC homepage (http://www.sccollege.edu/library).

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FULL-LENGTH BIOGRAPHIES IN THE BOOK STACKS Listed below are some biographies, arranged by subject, in the SCC book stacks (2 nd floor).

ACTORS , DIRECTORS , PRODUCERS , SET DESIGNERS , AND OTHER ENTERTAINERS Title Location Call Number Francis Ford Coppola: A Filmmaker’s Life Stacks PN 1998.3 C67 S38 1999 Stanley Kubrick: A Biography Stacks PN 1998.3 K83 L6 1996 D. W. Griffin: An American Life Stacks PN 1998.3 G76 S35 1996 Goldwyn: A Biography [Samuel Goldwyn] Stacks PN 1998.3 G65 B47 1989 Cecil B. DeMille’s Stacks PN 1998.3 D39 B57 2004 Lion of Hollywood: The Life and Legend of Louis B. Mayer Stacks PN 1998.3 M397 E94 2005 Mythmaker: The Life and World of George Lucas Stacks PN 1998.3 L835 B39 1999 Public Cowboy No. 1: The Life and Times of Gene Autry Stacks PN 2287 A9 G46 2007 The Adventures of Robert Rossellini: His Life and Films Stacks PN 1998.3 R67 G36 1998 Rosebud: The Story of Orson Welles Stacks PN 1998.3 W45 T56 1996 On Sunset Boulevard : The Life and Times of Billy Wilder Stacks PN 1998.3 W56 S55 1998 The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock Stacks PN 1998 A3 H5 Gary Cooper: American Hero Stacks PN 2287 C59 M49 1998 Bogart: A Life in Hollywood [] Stacks PN 2287 B48 M46 1997 Chaplin: His Life and Art [Charlie Chaplin} Stacks PN 2287 C5 R56 1985 Stacks PN 1998.3 K39 S35 2005 Buster Keaton, Cut to the Chase: A Biography Stacks PN 2287 K4 M43 1995 Leni: The Life and World of Leni Riefenstahl Stacks PN 1998.3 R54 B33 2007 Garbo [Greta Garbo] Stacks PN 2778 G3 P35 1993 Duke: The Life and Image of John Wayne Stacks PN 2287 W454 D38 1998 Gregory Peck: A Biography Stacks PN 2287 P35 F57 2002 : A Biography Stacks PN 2287 R74 Y34 1993 Houdini: The Career of Ehrich Weiss Stacks GV 1545 H8 S55 1996 Peter Jackson: From Prince of Splatter to Lord of the Rings Stacks PN 1998.3 J26 P78 2004 The Seriously Funny Life of Mel Brooks Stacks PN 2287 B695 P37 2007 Warren Beatty: A Private Man Stacks PN 2287 B394 F57 2005 Hattie McDaniel: Black Ambition, White Hollywood Stacks PN 2287 M165 W38 2005 Enchantment: The Life of Audrey Hepburn Stacks PN 2287 H43 S66 2006 Jimmy Stewart: A Biography Stacks PN 2287 S68 E45 2006 Stan and Ollie, the Roots of Comedy: The Double Life of Stacks PN 2287 L285 L68 2001 Laurel and Hardy [Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy] Buffalo Bill’s America: William Cody and the Wild West Stacks F 594 B94 W37 2005 Show Stacks PN 2287 F3 V36 2008 : An American Movie Master Stacks PN 1998.3 F62 S63 2008 Hollywood Dreams Made Real: Irving Thalberg and The Rise Stacks PN 1998.3 T467 V54 2008 of MGM The Animated Man: A Life of Walt Disney Stacks NC 1766 U52 D531 2007 Otto Preminger: The Man Who Would Be King Stacks PN 1998.3 P743 H57 2007 Marilyn Monroe: Private and Undisclosed Stacks PN 2287 M69 M576 2007 Mielziner: Master of Modern Stage Design Oversize PN 2096 M5 H464 2001

AFRICAN AMERICANS Title Location Call Number Sojourner Truth: A life, a Symbol Stacks E 185.97 T8 P35 1996 Rosa Parks Stacks F 334 M753 P373 2000 Jesse: The Life and Pilgrimage of Jesse Jackson Stacks E 185.97 J25 F73 1996 W. E. B. Du Bois Stacks E 185.97 D73 L48 2000 Let the Trumpet Sound: A Life of Martin Luther King, Jr. Stacks E 185.97 K5 O18 1982 Booker T. Washington: The Wizard of Tuskegee, 1901-1915 Stacks E 185.97 W4 H373 1983 Barbara Jordan: American Hero Stacks E 840.8 J62 R63 1998 Alice Walker: A Life Stacks PS 3573 A425 Z93 2004 Black Apollo of Science: The Life of Ernest Everett Just Stacks QH 31 J83 M36 1983 Eldridge Cleaver Stacks E 185.97 C6 R68 1991 White: The Biography of Walter White, Mr. NAACP Stacks E 185.97 W6 J36 2003 Aaron Douglas: African American Modernist Stacks N 6537 D62 A4 2007 Over the Line: The Art and Life of Jacob Lawrence Oversize ND 237 L29 O94 2001

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ANTHROPOLOGISTS , PSYCHOLOGISTS , AND EDUCATORS Title Location Call Number Margaret Mead: A Life Stacks GN 21 M36 H69 1984 Freud: A Life of Our Times [Sigmund Freud] Stacks BF 109 F74 G39 1988 Becoming William James Stacks BF 109 J28 F44 1984 Carl Gustav Jung Stacks BF 109 J8 M355 1997 Acts of Will: The Life and Work of Otto Rank Stacks RC 339.52 R36 L54 1985 Melanie Klein: Her World and Her Work Stacks RC 339.52 K43 G76 1986 Fury on Earth: A Biography of Wilhelm Reich Stacks RC 339.52 R44 S47 1983 Timothy Leary: A Biography Stacks BF 109 L43 G74 2006 The Right To Be Human: A Biography of Abraham Maslow Stacks BF 109 M33 H63 1988 B. F. Skinner: A Life Stacks BF 109 S55 B46 1993 Identity’s Architect: A Biography of Erik H. Erickson Stacks BF 109 E7 F74 1999 Ephraim George Squier and the Development of American E-book Anthropology

ARCHITECTS Title Location Call Number Gaudi: A Biography [Antonio Gaudi] Stacks NA 1313 G3 V36 2001 I. M. Pei: Mandarin of Modernism Stacks NA 737 P365 C36 1995 Louis Sullivan: His Life and World Stacks NA 737 S9 T9 1986 Mies van der Rohe: A Critical Biography Stacks NA 1088 M65 S38 1985 Alvar Aalto: The Early Years Stacks NA 1455 F5 A2437 1984 Andrea Palladio: The Architect in His Time Stacks NA 1123 P2 B68 2007 Burnham of : Architect and Planner [Daniel Stacks NA 737 B85 H56 1979 Burnham] Mary Colter: Architect of the Southwest Oversize NA 737 C64 B47 2002 The Fellowship: The Untold Story of Frank Lloyd Wright and Stacks NA 737 W7 F75 2006 Taliesin Fellowship Richard Neutra and the Search for Modern Architecture Oversize NA 737 N4 H5 2005 Eileen Gray, Architect/Designer: A Biography Stacks NA 1053 G73 A83 2000 Bertram Goodhue: His Life and Residential Architecture Oversize NA 737 G6 W95 2007 God’s Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain Stacks NA 997 P9 H55 2007 [Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin]

ARTISTS , SCULPTORS , PAINTERS , AND ART PATRONS Title Location Call Number Rodin: A Biography [Auguste Rodin] Stacks NB 553 R7 G78 1986 The Life of Henry Moore Stacks NB 497 M6 B47 1987 The Shameful Life of Salvador Dali Stacks N 7113 D3 G53 1998 Michelangelo: A Biography Stacks N 6923 B83 1997 Goya [Francisco Jose de Goya y Lucientes] Stacks N 7113 G68 H83 2003 Duchamp: A Biography [Marcel Duchamp] Stacks N 6853 D8 T58 1996

3 Charles M. Russell : The Life and Legend of America’s Stacks N 6537 R88 T3 1996 Cowboy Artist Georgia O’Keefe : A Life Stacks N 6537 O39 R64 1989 Pissarro: His Life and Work [Camille Pissaro] Stacks ND 553 P55 S53 Dreaming with His Eyes Wide Open: A Life of Diego Rivera Stacks ND 259 R5 M27 Jackson Pollock: A Biography Stacks ND 237 P73 S65 1987 Abby Aldrich Rockefeller: The Woman in the Family Stacks N5220 R57 K47 1993 Peggy: The Wayward Guggenheim [Peggy Guggenheim] Stacks N 5220 G886 W4 1986 Paul Revere and the World He Lived In Stacks F 69 R43 F6 1969 The Life of : Journey Without Borders Stacks NB 237 N6 D8813 2004 Odd Man In: Norton Simon and the Pursuit of Culture Stacks N 5220 S66 M83 1998 Christo and Jeanne-Claude: A Biography Stacks N 7193 C5 C468 2002 Matisse the Master: A Life of Henri Matisse Stacks N6853 M33 S678 2005 Edward Hopper: An Intimate Biography Stacks N 6537 H6 L48 2007 De Kooning: An American Master [] Stacks N6537 D43 S74 2006 Leopold Mendez: Revolutionary Art and the Mexican Print Stacks NE 546 M4 C37 2007 Andrew Wyeth: A Secret Life Stacks ND 237 W93 M4 1996 Turner: The Life and Masterworks [Joseph Turner] Stacks ND 497 T8 S53 2004 M. C. Escher: His Life and Complete Graphic Works Oversize NE 670 E75 L4813 1992 Edward Hopper: An Intimate Biography Stacks N 6537 H6 L48 2007 Bill Mauldin: A Life Up Front Stacks NC 1429 M428 D47 2008

BUSINESS AND UNION LEADERS AND ECONOMISTS Title Location Call Number The Magic Kingdom: Walt Disney and the American Way of Stacks NC 1766 U52D5927 1997 Life Morgan: American Financier [J. Pierpoint Morgan] Stacks HG 2463 M6 S77 1999 In Sam We Trust: The Untold Story of Sam Walton and How Stacks HF 5429.215 U6 O78 1998 Wal-Mart is Devouring America Henry Edwards Huntington: A Biography Stacks HG 172 H86 T48 1994 Hoffa [Jimmy Hoffa] Stacks HD 6509 H6 S56 1991 William Mulholland and the Rise of Stacks HD 4464 L7 M85 2000 John Maynard Keynes: A Personal Biography of the Man Stacks HB 103 K47 H47 1984 Who Revolutionized Capitalism and the Way We Live The Life and Legend of Jay Gould Stacks HC 102.5 G68 K55 1986 Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. Stacks CT 275 R75 C47 1997 Cecil Rhodes: Flawed Colossus Stacks DT 776 R4 R62 1988 The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst Stacks Z 473 H4 N37 2000 Privileged Son: Otis Chandler and the Rise and Fall of the Stacks Z 473 C453 M215 2001 L.A. Times Dynasty icon: Steve Jobs, the Greatest Second Act in the History of Stacks QA 76.2 J63 Y677 2005 Business Alan Greenspan: The Oracle Behind the Curtain e-book Hershey: Milton S. Hershey’s Extraordinary Life of Wealth, Stacks HD 9200 U52 H4715 2006 Empire, and Utopian Dreams

4 CHOREOGRAPHERS AND DANCERS Title Location Call Number : A Life in Stacks GV 1785 A38 D85 1996 Isadora: Portrait of the Artist as a Woman [] Stacks GV 1785 D8 B56 1985 Margot Fonteyn Stacks GV 1785 F63 D36 2004 Nureyev: The Life [Rudolf Nureyev] Stacks GV 1785 N8 K38 2007 Dance with Demons: The Life of Stacks GV 1785 R52 L39 2001 No Intermissions: The Life of Agnes de Mille Stacks GV 1785 D36 E27 1996 Massine: A Biography [Leonide Massine] Stacks GV 1785 M35 G37 1995 : Ambassador of Lindy Hop Stacks GV 1785 M36 A3 2007 : Dancing a Life Stacks GV 1785 D82 A73 2002 Loie Fuller: Loie Fullerton’s Performance of Modernism Stacks GV 1785 F8 G37 2007 Josephine Baker in Art and Life Stacks GV 1785 B3 J85 2007

COMPOSERS , SINGERS , SONGWRITERS , AND MUSICIANS Title Location Call Number Nat King Cole Stacks ML 420 C63 E67 1999 Jimmie Rodgers: The Life and Times of America’s Blue Stacks ML 420 R753 P7 Yodeler Streisand: Her Life [Barbara Streisand] Stacks ML 420 S915 S62 1995 : Man and Music Stacks ML 420 C46 L93 1998 Rubenstein: A Life [Arthur Rubenstein] Stacks ML 417 R79 S23 1995 Billie Holiday Stacks ML 420 H58 N53 1995 Groovin’ High: The Life of Dizzie Gillespie Stacks ML 419 G54 S55 1999 Louis Armstrong: An Extravagant Life Stacks ML 419 A75 B47 1997 Ramblin’ Man: The Life and Times of Woody Guthrie Stacks ML 419 G852 C73 2004 Careless Love: The Unmaking of Elvis Presley Stacks ML 420 P96 G85 1999 Break on Through: The Life and Death of Jim Morrison Stacks ML 420 M62 R6 1991 The Great Caruso [Enrico Caruso] Stacks ML 420 C259 S3 1988 Johannes Brahms: A Biography Stacks ML 410 B8 S93 1997 Tchaikovksy: A Biography [Peter Illich Tchaikovsky] Stacks ML 410 C4 H63 1996 : The Life and World of an Uncommon Man Stacks ML 410 C756 P6 1999 Dvorak [Antonin Dvorak] Stacks ML 410 D99 C63 1979b Amy Beach, Passionate Victorian: The Life and World of an Stacks ML 410 B36 B56 1998 American Composer, 1867-1944 Beethoven Stacks ML 410 B4 S64 1998 As Thousands Cheer: The Life of Irving Berlin Stacks ML 410 B499 B5 1990 Brahms: His Life and Works [Johannes Brahams] Stacks ML 410 G8 G42 1982 Somewhere for Me: A Biography of Richard Rodgers Stacks ML 410 R6315 S43 2001 Cole Porter: A Biography Stacks ML 410 P7844 M33 1998 Jelly’s Blues: The Life, Music, and Redemption of Jelly Roll Stacks ML 410 M82 R45 2003 Morton Charles Ives: A Life with Music Stacks ML 410 I94 S93 1996 Handel [George Friedrich Handel] Stacks ML 410 H13 H6 Duke Ellington Stacks ML 410 E44 C6 1987 Haydn: A Creative Life in Music [Joseph Haydn] Stacks ML 410 H4 G4 1982 Richard Strauss: Man, Musician, Enigma Stacks ML 410 S93 K46 1999

5 Stephen Sondheim: A Life Stacks ML 410 S6872 S43 1998 Schubert: The Music and the Man [Franz Schubert] Stacks ML 410 S3 N48 1997 Mozart: A Life [Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart] Stacks ML 410 M8 S65 1995 Dylan: A Biography [Bob Dylan] Stacks ML 420 D98 S6 1991 Wagner [Richard Wagner] Stacks ML 410 W1 M58 1992 Andrew Lloyd Webber Stacks ML 410 L78 S64 2004 Brass Diva: The Life and Legends of Ethel Merman Stacks ML 420 M39 F55 2007 Dream Boogie: The Triumph of Sam Cooke Stacks ML 420 C665 G83 2005 Johnny Cash: The Life of an American Icon Stacks ML 420 C265 M55 2003 Mingus: A Critical Biography [Charles Mingus] Stacks ML 410 L78 S64 2004 Clapton: Edge of Darkness [Eric Clapton] Stacks ML 419 C58 S26 1999 Miles: The Definitive Biography [Miles Davis] Stacks ML 419 D39 C35 1998 Deep in a Dream: The Long Night of Chet Baker Stacks ML 419 B19 G38 2003 Whatever You Say I Am: The Life and Times of Eminem Stacks ML 420 E56 B69 2003 : A Biography of the First Lady of Jazz Stacks ML 420 F52 N5 1995 George Harrison Stacks ML 420 H167 C53 2001 Mario Lanza: Tenor in Exile Stacks ML 420 L24 B53 1999 The Lives of John Lennon Stacks ML 420 L38 G6 2001 Rudolph, Frost, and Captain Kangaroo: The Musical Life of Stacks ML 429 K88 K73 2007 Hecky Krasnow—Producer of the World’s Most Beloved Children’s Songs Swing, Swing, Swing: The Life and Times of Benny Stacks ML 422 G65 F6 1994 Goodman Catch a Wave: The Rise, Fall & Redemption of the Beach Stacks ML 420 W5525 C37 2006 Boys’ Brian Wilson The Many Lives of Tom Waits Stacks ML 420 W13 H84 2007 Blue Monday: Fats Domino and the Lost Dawn of Stacks ML 420 D66 C76 2007 Rock’n’roll Patsy: The Life and Times of Patsy Cline Stacks ML 420 C57 J66 1999 Heavier Than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain Stacks ML 420 C59 2001 The Lost Supreme: The Life of Dreamgirl Florence Ballard Stacks ML 420 B1336 B46 2008 Shout, Sister, Shout! The Untold Story of Rock-and Roll E-Book Trailblazer Sister Rosetta Tharpe McCartney [Paul McCartney] Stacks ML 410 M115 S26 2006 Catch a Wave: The Life of Bob Marley Stacks ML 420 M3313 W5 2006 Rostropovich: The Musical Life of the Great Cellist, Teacher, Stacks ML 418 R77 W55 2008 and Legend Coltrane: The Story of a Sound [John Coltrane] Stacks ML 419 C645 R37 2007 Elton: The Biography [Elton John] Stacks ML 410 J64 B83 2007 Twenty Thousand Roads: The Ballad of Gram Parsons and Stacks ML 420 P275 M49 2007 His Cosmic American Music

ENVIRONMENTALISTS AND NATURALISTS Title Location Call Number John Muir: Apostle of Nature Stacks QH 31 M78 W54 1995 The Gentle Subversive: Rachel Carson, Silent Spring , and the Stacks QH 31 C33 L98 2007 Rise of the Environmental Movement

6 : A Biography Stacks QL 31 A9 F63 1988 Roger Tory Peterson: A Biography Stacks QL 31 P45 C37 2007 Jane Goodall: The Woman Who Redefined Man Stacks PL 31 G58 P47 2006

EXPLORERS , DISCOVERERS , AND OTHER ADVENTURERS Title Location Call Number Shackleton [Ernest Shackleton] Stacks G 875 S5 H86 1986 Captain Kidd and the War Against the Pirates Stacks G 537 K5 R57 1986 Cook: The Extraordinary Voyages of Captain James Cook Stacks G 420 C65 T56 2003 Mercator : The Man Who Mapped the Planet [Gerard Stacks GA 923.5 M5 C73 2002 Mercator] Columbus Then and Now [Christopher Columbus] Stacks E 123 D38 1997 Hernando de Soto: A Savage Quest in the Americas Stacks E 125 S7 D86 1995 Kit Carson: A Pattern for Heroes Stacks F 592 C33 G84 1984 The Life of Daniel Boone Stacks F 454 B66 D73 1998 Sir Francis Drake: The Queen’s Pirate Stacks DA 86.22 D7 K45 1998 East to the Dawn: The Life of Amelia Earhart Stacks TL 540 E3 B88 1997 One Giant Leap: Neil Armstrong’s Stellar American Journey Stacks TL 789.85 A75 W34 2004 A Land So Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca, the Stacks E 125 N9 R47 2007 Extraordinary Tale of a Shipwrecked Spaniard Who Walked Across America in the Sixteenth Century Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu Stacks G 370 P9 B37 2007 Over the Edge: Magellan’s Terrifying Circumnavigation of Stacks G420 M2 B47 2004 the Globe [Ferdinand Magellan] Wilderness Journey: The Life of William Clark E-book A River Running West: The Life of John Wesley Powell Stacks F 788 P88 W67 2001 Amerigo: The Man Who Gave His Name to America Stacks E 125 V5 F47 2007 [Amerigo Vespucci] Henry Hudson, Dreams and Obsessions: The Tragic Legacy Stacks E 129 H8 S3 2007 of the New World’s Least Understood Explorer Explorer of Machu Picchu: Portrait of Hiram Bingham Stacks F 3429 B633 B55 2000 Gertrude Bell: Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations Stacks DA 566.9 B39 H69 2007 Boone: A Biography [Daniel Boone] Stacks F 454 B66 M67 2007 Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa’s Greatest Explorer Stacks DT 351 S9 J43 2007 [Henry M. Stanley]

FASHION DESIGNERS Title Location Call Number Chanel: A Woman of Her Own [Coco Chanel] Stacks TT 505 C45 M33 1990 Christian Dior: The Man Who Made the World Look New Stacks TT 505 D5 P6313 1996

7 INVENTORS , ASTRONOMERS , BOTANISTS , MATHEMATICIANS , PHYSICISTS , AND OTHER SCIENTISTS Title Location Call Number Robert Fulton: A Biography Stacks VM 140 F9 P45 1985 Louis Pasteur Stacks Q 143 P2 D33313 Leonardo : The First Scientist [Leonardo da Vinci] Stacks Q143 L5 W48 2000 Huxley: From Devil’s Disciple to Evolution’s High Priest Stacks Q 143 H956 D47 1997 [Thomas Henry Huxley] Stephen Hawking : A Life in Science Stacks QC 16 H33 W45 1992 American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Stacks QC 16 O62 B57 2005 Oppenheimer The Beat of a Different Drum: The Life and Science of Stacks QC 16 F49 M45 1994 Richard Feynman Infinite Potential: The Life and Times of David Bohm Stacks QC 16 B627 P43 1996 Einstein: His Life and Universe [Albert Einstein] Stacks QC 16 E5 I76 2007 Galileo, Decisive Innovator [Galileo Galilei] Stacks QB 36 G2 S453 1996 Galileo’s Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, Stacks QB 36 G2 S65 1999 and Love [Suor Maria Celeste] Edwin Hubble: Mariner of the Nebulae Stacks QB 36 H83 C48 1995 The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Stacks QA 29 R3 K36 1991 Rananujan [Srinivasa Ramanujan] The Monk in The Garden: The Lost and Found Genius of Stacks QH 31 M45 H464 2000 Gregor Mendel, the Father of Genetics Rutherford: Simple Genius [Ernest Rutherford] Stacks QC 16 R8 W54 1983 Isaac Newton: The Last Sorcerer Stacks QC 16 N7 W45 1997 Marie Curie: A Life Stacks QD 12 C8 Q56 1995 Force of Nature : The Life of Linus Pauling Stacks QD 22 P35 H34 1995 Alfred Nobel: A Biography Stacks TP 268.5 N7 F3613 1993 Edison: A Life of Invention [Thomas A. Edison] Stacks TK 140 E3 I87 1998 Enrico Fermi: Physicist Stacks QC 16 F46 S4 1970 The Scientific Legacy of Beppo Occhialini E-book Edward Teller: The Real Dr. Strangelove Stacks QC 16 T37 G66 2004 The Transit of Venus: The Brief, Brilliant Life of Jeremiah Stacks QB 36 H74 A84 2004 Horrocks, Father of British Astronomy The Last Man Who Knew Everything: Thomas Young, the Stacks Q 143 Y7 R63 2007 Anonymous Genius Who Proved Newton Wrong and Deciphered the Rosetta Stone, Among Other Surprising Feats The Sun Kings: The Unexpected Tragedy of Richard Stacks QB 35 C53 2007 Carrington and the Tale of How Modern Astronomy Began The First American: Benjamin Franklin and the Pursuit of Stacks Q 143 F8 C47 2006 Genius Roger Tory Peterson: A Biography Stacks QL 31 P45 C37 2007 The Telephone Gambit: Chasing Alexander Graham Bell’s Stacks TK 6018 B4 S58 2008 Secret George Westinghouse, Gentle Genius Stacks T 40 W4 S57 2007 Ernst Zermelo: An Approach to His Life and Work Stacks QA 29 Z47 E22 2007 Richter’s Scale: Measure of an Earthquake, Measure of a Man Stacks QE 22 R475 H68 2007 [Charles Richter] The Wizard of Menlo Park: How Thomas Alva Edison Stacks TK 140 E3 S76 2007

8 Invented the Modern World Von Braun: Dreamer of Space, Engineer of War [Werner Von Stacks TL 781.85 V6 N48 2007 Braun]

KINGS , QUEENS , DICTATORS , AND OTHER RULERS Title Location Call Number The Rose of Martinique: A Life of Napoleon’s Josephine Stacks DC 216.1 S78 2003 Victoria: An Intimate Biography [Queen Victoria] Stacks DA 555 W45 1992 The Life of Elizabeth I Stacks DA 355 W36 1998 The Queen: A Biography of Elizabeth II Stacks DA 590 P54 1997 Anne Boleyn: The First Full Biography in 100 Years Stacks DA 333 B6 I84 1986 Henry V: The Scourge of God Stacks DA 256 S48 1988 Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris Stacks DD 247 H5 K462 1999 Henry II, King of France, 1547-1559 Stacks DC 114 B38 1988 Marie Antoinette, the Last Queen of France Stacks DC 137.1 L4813 2000 Young Stalin [Joseph Stalin] Stacks DK 268 S8 M574 2007 Boris Yeltsin: From Bolshevik to Democrat Stacks DK 290.3 Y45 M67 1991 Frederick the Great : The Magnificent Enigma Stacks DD 404 A75 1986 Alexander the Great Stacks DF 234 C285 2004 Hadrian: The Restless Emperor Stacks DG 295 B57 1997 The Last Romantic: The Life of the Legendary Marie, Queen Stacks DR 262 A2 P35 1984 of Roumania, the Most Famous Beauty, Heroine and Royal Celebrity of Her Time Milosevic: Portrait of a Tyrant [Slobadan Milosevic] Stacks DR 2047 M55 D63 1999 King Hussein: A Life on the Edge Stacks DS 154.55 D32 1999 Khubilai Khan: His Life and Times Stacks DS 752.6 K83 R67 1987 Kil Il Sung: The North Korean Leader Stacks DS 934.6 K5 S84 1988 Attila: The Barbarian King Who Challenged Rome Stacks D 141 M326 2006 Caesar: Life of a Colossus [Julius Caesar] Stacks DG 261 G584 2006 Mussolini: A New Life [Benito Mussolino] Stacks DG 575 M8 F37 2004 Olive Cromwell E-book Deng: A Political Biography [Xiaoping Deng] Stacks DS 778 T39 Y33 1997 Queen Mary of Scots E-book

MILITARY FIGURES Title Location Call Number John Paul Jones: A Sailor’s Biography Stacks E 207 J7 M6 1985 Du Pont : The Making of an Admiral [Samuel Francis Du Stacks E 182 D87 M47 1986 Pont] Benedict Arnold, Revolutionary Hero: An American Warrior Stacks E 278 A7 M37 1997 Reconsidered Robert E. Lee: A Biography Stacks E 467.1 L4 T48 1995 The White Tecumseh : A Biography of William T. Sherman Stacks E 467.1 S55 H65 1997 Stonewall Jackson: The Man, the Soldier, the Legend Stacks E 467.1 J15 R63 1997 Touched by Fire: The Life, Death, and Mythic Afterlife of Stacks E 467.1 C99 B27 1996 George Armstrong Custer

9 Mountbatten: A Biography [Louis Montbatten] Stacks DA 89.1 M59 Z54 1985 Hindenburg, Icon of German Militarism [Paul von E-book Hindenburg] Santa Anna of Mexico [Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna] Stacks F 1232 S232 F69 2007 Garibaldi: Invention of a Hero [Giuseppe Garibaldi] Stacks DG 552.8 G2 R514 2007 Agent of Destiny: The Life and Times of General Winfield Stacks E 401.1 S4 E5 1997 Scott Patton: A Genius for War [George S. Patton] Stacks E 745 P3 D46 1995 Henry Knox: Visionary General of the American Revolution Stacks E 207 K74 P85 2008 Becoming Eichmann: Rethinking the Life, Crimes, and Trails Stacks DD 247 E5 C47 2006 of a “Desk Murderer” [Adolf Eichmann] Fallen Founder: The Life of Aaron Burr Stacks E 302.6 B9 I84 2007

NATIVE AMERICANS Title Location Call Number Geronimo: The Man, His Time, His Place Stacks E 99 A6 G324 The Last Comanche Chief: The Life and Times of Quanah Stacks E 99 C85 P385 1995 Parker Red Cloud: Warrior-Statesman of the Lakota Sioux Stacks E 99.03 R374 1997 Tecumseh: A Life Stacks E 99 S35 S86 1998 The Lance and the Shield: The Life and Times of Sitting Bull Stacks E99 D1 S625 1993 Crazy Horse: The Life Behind the Legend Stacks E 99 O3 C7274 2005 Cochise: Ciricahua Apache Chief Stacks E 99 A6 C577 1991

NOVELISTS , POETS , DRAMATISTS , HISTORIANS , JOURNALISTS , AND OTHER WRITERS Title Location Call Number Chaucer: His Life, His Works, His World [Geoffrey Chaucer] Stacks PR 1905 H58 1987 Cocteau, a Biography [Jean Cocteau] Stacks PQ 2605 o15 Z86 1986 Simone de Beauvoir : A Biography Stacks PQ 2603 E362 Z59 1990 Emile Zola : A Biography Stacks PQ 2529 S36 1988 Jules Verne: An Exploratory Biography Stacks PQ 2469 Z5 L65 1996 George Sand : A Woman’s Life Writ Large Stacks PQ 2412 J33 2000 Mary Shelley: Romance and Reality Stacks PR 5398 S86 1991 Cristina Rossetti : A Writer’s Life Stacks PR 5238 M37 1995 The Long Embrace: Raymond Chandler and the Woman He Stacks PS 3505 H3224 Z65 2007 Loved George Eliot: A Life Stacks PR 4681 A84 1996 William Shakespeare: A Biography Stacks PR 2907 R6 Kahlil Gibran: Man and Poet Stacks PS 7826 I2 S88 1998 An Uneasy Victorian: Thackeray the Man, 1811-1863 Stacks PR 5631 M66 1980b [William Makepeace Thackeray] Damned to Fame : The Life of Samuel Beckett Stacks PR 6003 E282 Z764 1996 Alexander Pope : A Life Stacks PR 3633 M27 1985 Walt Whitman: The Making of the Poet Stacks PS 3231 Z87 1984 Robert Louis Stevenson: A Biography Stacks PR 5493 M38 1994

10 Oscar Wilde Stacks PR 5823 E38 1987 Vindication : A Life of Mary Wollstonecraft Stacks PR 5841 W8 Z717 2005 Virginia Woolf : A Writer’s Life Stacks PR 6045 O72 Z653 1984b Graham Greene: The Enemy Within Stacks PR 6013 R44 Z842 1995 Coleridge : Early Visions [Samuel Taylor Coleridge] Stacks PR 4483 H57 1990 Dirt & Deity: A Life of Robert Burns Stacks PR 4331 M35 1995 Byron: The Flawed Angel [George Gordon Byron] Stacks PR 4381 G67 1997 Bram Stoker : A Biography of the Author of Dracula Stacks PR 6037 T617 Z57 1996 Clive Staples Lewis : A Dramatic Life Stacks PR 6023 E926 Z666 1986 James Joyce Stacks PR 6019 O9 Z5332 1982 Jane Austen : A Life Stacks PR 4036 N65 1997 Blake : A Biography [William Blake] Stacks PR 4146 A23 1996 Daniel Defoe: His Life Stacks PR 3406 B24 1989 Henry David Thoreau: A Life of the Mind Stacks PS 3053 R53 1986 Bret Harte: Prince and Pauper Stacks PS 1833 N57 2000 To Herland and Beyond : The Life & Work of Charlotte Stacks PS 1744 G57 Z74 1990 Perkins Gilman Inventing Mark Twain: The Lives of Samuel Langhorne Stacks PS 1331 H53 1997 Clemens Kate Chopin Stacks PS 1294 C63 T68 1993 Chinua Achebe : The Author of Things Fall Apart Stacks PR 9387.9 A3 Z66 1997 Savage Beauty : The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay Stacks PS 3525 I495 Z72 2001 T. S. Eliot: A Life Stacks PS 3509 L43 Z574 1984 Robert Frost : A Life Stacks PS 3511 R94 Z868 1999 Ernest Hemingway : A Life Story Stacks PS 3515 E37 Z575 1969 Ellen Glasgow : A Biography Stacks PS 3513 L34 Z668 1998 Zelda Fitzgerald : Her Voice in Paradise Stacks PS 3511 I9234 Z64 2003 Pearl S. Buck: A Cultural Biography Stacks PS 3503 U198 Z624 1996 Emily Dickinson Stacks PS 1541 Z5 W58 1986 Isak Dinesen : The Life of a Storyteller Stacks PT 8175 B545 Z89 1982 K: A Biography of Kafka [Franz Kafka] Stacks PT 2621 A26 Z74622 2001 Brecht: A Biography [Bertolt Brecht] Stacks PT 2603 R397 Z6668 1983 Peter Jennings: A Reporter’s Life Stacks PN 4913 J46 P48 2007 Baldwin’s Harlem: A Biography of James Baldwin Stacks PS 3552 A45 Z7597 2008 Bernard Malamud, A Writer’s Life E-Book Flaubert: A Biography [Gustav Flaubert] Stacks PQ 2247 B685 2006 Alexis de Tocqueville: A Life Stacks JC 229 T8 B678 2007 Thomas Hardy: The Guarded Life Stacks PR 4753 P58 2007 James Fenimore Cooper: The Early Years Stacks PS 1431 F73 2007 : A Biography Stacks PS 3555 L625 Z8725 2007 The Man Who Created Sherlock Holmes: The Life and Times Stacks PR 4623 L93 2007 of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle David Mamet: A Life in the Theatre Stacks PS 3563 A4345 Z82 2008 Washington Irving: An American Original Stacks PS 2081 J66 2008 Zora Neale Hurston: A Biography of the Spirit Stacks PS 3515 U789 2007

11 PHILOSOPHERS AND RELIGIOUS FIGURES Title Location Call Number Spinoza: A Life [Benedictus de Spinoza] Stacks B 3997 N33 1999 Sartre: A Biography [Jean Paul Sartre] Stacks B 2430 S34 H386 1987 Hegel: A Biography [Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel] Stacks B 2947 P56 2000 Malcolm: The Life of a Man Who Changed Black America Stacks BP 223 Z8 L5766 1990 [Malcolm X] Prophet of Rage: A Life of Louis Farrakhan and His Nation Stacks BP 223 Z8 F3846 1996 An Original Man: The Life and Times of Elijah Muhammad Stacks BP 223 Z8 E42 1997 Augustine: A New Biography [Saint Augustine] Stacks BR 1720 A9 O36 2005 Mother Teresea, 1910-1997: Beyond the Image Stacks BX 4406.5 Z8 S43 1997 Pope John Paul II: The Biography Stacks BX 1378.5 S98 1995 Paul: The Mind of the Apostle Stacks BS 2506 W54 1997 Moses: A Life Stacks BS 580 M6 K54 1998 Buddha: Penguin Lives Stacks BQ 882 A76 2001 Mary Baker Eddy Stacks BX 6995 G55 1998 Brigham Young: American Moses Stacks BX 8695 Y7 A85 1985 The Last American Puritan: The Life of Increase Mather Stacks F 67 M468 H35 1988 Thomas More Stacks DA 334 M8 M275 1984 Charles Wesley and the Struggle for Methodist Identity Stacks BX 8495 W4 L56 2007 Aimee Semple McPherson and the Resurrection of Christian Stacks BX 7990 I68 M325 2007 America Dalai Lama: Man, Monk, Mystic Stacks BQ 7935 B777 C44 2007

PHOTOGRAPHERS Title Location Call Number Alfred Stieglitz: A Biography Stacks TR 140 S7 W49 1995 Steichen: A Biography [Edward Steichen] Stacks TR 140 S68 N58 1997 George Eastman: A Biography Stacks TR 140 E3 B73 1996 Margaret Bourke-White: A Biography Stacks TR 140 B6 G65 1986 The Man Who Stopped Time: The Illuminating Story of Stacks TR 849 M84 C64 2007 Eadweard Muybridge, Pioneer Photographer, Father of the Motion Picture, Murderer

POLITICAL FIGURES Title Location Call Number Jefferson Davis Stacks E 467.1 D26 E24 The First American : The Life and Times of Benjamin Stacks E 302.6 F8 B83 2000 Franklin Robert Kennedy Stacks E 840.8 K4 M5 1998 Seasons of Her Life: A Biography of Madeleine Korbel Stacks E 840.8 A37 B53 1998 Albright The Rise of David Duke Stacks F 376.3 D84 B75 1994 Sam Houston: A Biography of the Father of Texas Stacks F 390 H84 W55 1993 Disraeli [Benjamin Disraeli] Stacks DA 564 B3 B78 1983 Churchill: The Unruly Giant [Winston Churchill] Stacks DA 566.9 C5 R66 1994

12 The Iron Lady: A Biography of Margaret Thatcher Stacks DA 591 T47 Y68 1989 Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome’s Greatest Politician Stacks DG 260 C5 E94 2002 Ariel Sharon Stacks DS 126.6 S42 H4413 2006 Yasir Arafat: A Political Biography Stacks DS 126.6 A67 R83 2003 Indira: The Life of Indira Nehru Gandhi Stacks DS 481 G23 F73 2002 Gandhi’s Passion: The Life and Legacy of Mahatma Gandhi Stacks DS 481 G3 W64 2001 Mao: A Life [Mao Tse Tung] Stacks DS 778 M3 S548 2000 Sun Yat-sen Stacks DS 777 B47 1998 Ho Chi Minh: A Life Stacks DS 560.72 H6 D85 2000 Nelson Mandela: A Biography Stacks DT 1949 M35 M47 1998 Fantastic: The Life of Arnold Schwarzenegger Stacks F 866.4 S38 L43 2005 The Prince: The Secret Story of the World’s Most Intriguing Stacks DS 244.526 B55 S56 2006 Royal, Prince Bandar Bin Sultan Supreme Discomfort: The Divided Soul of Clarence Thomas Stacks KF 8745 T48 M47 2007 A Woman in Charge: the Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton Stacks E 887 C55 B47 2007 The Confidante: Condoleezza Rice and the Creation of the Stacks E 840.8 R48 K475 2007 Bush Legacy Henry Kissinger and the American Century Stacks E 840.8 K58 S87 2007 Alice: Alice Roosevelt Longworth, from White House Stacks E 757.3 C67 2007 Princess to Washington Power Broker Hugo Chavez Stacks F 2328.52 C48 M3713 2007 Young J. Edgar: Hoover, the Red Scare, and the Assault on Stacks HV 7911 H6 A25 2007 Civil Liberties

REFORMERS Title Location Call Number Carry A. Nation: Retelling the Life Stacks HV 5232 N3 G73 2001 Dorothea Dix: New England Reformer Stacks HV 28 D6 B75 1998 Irrepressible Reformer: A Biography of Melvil Dewey Stacks Z 720 D5 W54 1996 Nader: Crusader, Spoiler, Icon [Ralph Nader] Stacks E 889 N34 2002 Becoming a Woman: A Biography of Christine Jorgensen Stacks HQ 77.8 J67 D63 2008 and Her Indian Reform Legacy Stacks PS 2108 M37 1990 Gandhi’s Passion: The Life and Legacy of Mahatma Gandhi Stacks DS 481 G3 W64 2001

SPORTS FIGURES Title Location Call Number Muhammad Ali: His Life and Times Stacks GV 1132 A44 H38 1991 A Flame of Pure Fire: Jack Dempsey and the Roaring ‘20s Stacks GV 1132 D4 K35 1999 Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson Stacks GV 1196 J64 W37 2004 Peach: Ty Cobb in His Times and Ours Stacks GV 865 C6 B34 2005 Jackie Robinson: A Biography Stacks GV 865 R6 R34 1997 Red, A Biography of Red Smith: The Life & Times of a Great Stacks GV 742.42 S54 B46 1986 Writer Operation Yao Ming: The Chinese Sports Empire, American Stacks GV 884 Y36 L37 2005 Big Business, and the Making of an NBA Superstar (also an e-book)

13 Sweet William: The Life of Billy Conn Stacks GV 1132 C66 O76 2008 Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball’s Last Hero Stacks GV 865 C45 M355 2006 [Roberto Clemente) Connie Mack and the Early Years of Baseball Stacks GV 865 M215 M33 2007 Bear: The Hard Life and Good Times of Alabama’s Coach Stacks GV 939 B79 A32 2007 Bryant [Paul W. Bryant] Notre Dame and the Game that Changed Football: How Jesse Stacks GV 939 H316 M34 2007 Harper Made the Forward Pass a Weapon and Knute Rockne a Legend Mr. Basketball: George Mikan, the Minneapolis Lakers, and Stacks GV 884 M54 S38 2007 the Birth of the NBA

UNITED STATES PRESIDENTS AND FIRST LADIES Title Location Call Number First in His Class: A Biography of Bill Clinton Stacks E 886 M29 1995 George Washington: A Life Stacks E 312 R196 1997 Abigail Adams: Witness to Revolution Stacks E 322.1 A38 B63 1995 Truman [Harry Truman] Stacks E 814 M26 1992 Herbert Hoover: A Public Life Stacks E 802 B87 1979 Florence Harding: The First Lady, the Jazz Age, and the Stacks E 786.2 A58 1998 Death of America’s Most Scandalous President : A Personal and Public Life Stacks E 807.1 R48 Y68 1985 Jimmy Carter : A Comprehensive Biography from Plains to Stacks E 873 B68 1997 Postpresidency Richard Milhouse Nixon: The Rise of an American Politician Stacks E 856 M67 1990 An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963 Stacks E 842 D28 2003 Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis: A Life Stacks CT 275 O552 S68 2000 The Life and Presidency of Stacks E 877 P46 1997 First Son: George W. Bush and the Bush Family Dynasty Stacks F 391.4 B87 M56 1999 Zachary Taylor: Soldier, Planter, Statesman of the Old Stacks E 422 B26 1985 Southwest Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of Stacks E 855 P47 2008 America [Richard Milhouse Nixon] Ike: An American Hero [Dwight D. Eisenhower] Stacks E 836 K67 2007 Richard M. Nixon Stacks E 856 D74 2007 Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Stacks E 457.45 G66 2005 John Adams Stacks E 322 M38 2001 Lion in the White House: A Life of Theodore Roosevelt Stacks E 757 D658 2007 FDR [Franklin Delano Roosevelt] Stacks E 807 S58 2007

SECONDARY SOURCES FOR FINDING BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION Listed below are collective biographies that will provide biographical information on a wide variety of notable people. Collective biographies can be one individual volume or a multi-volume set. Collective biographies are usually arranged alphabetically so check under the last name of the individual.

14 COLLECTIVE BIOGRAPHIES Title Location Call Number American National Biography 24 vols. plus supplements Reference CT 213 A68 1999 Dictionary of American Biography 11 vols. plus supplements Reference E 176 D5 Encyclopedia of American Biography: In-depth Profiles of Reference CT 213 E53 1995 Over 1,000 Prominent Americans Current Biography 1940 to the current date; check the Reference CT 100 C8 cumulative indexes Biography Index 1979 to the current date; check each volume Reference Encyclopedia of World Biography 17 vols. plus supplements Reference CT 103 E56

SUBJECT SPECIFIC COLLECTIVE BIOGRAPHIES Title Location Call Number Notable Asian Americans Reference E 184 O6 N67 1995 Biographical Dictionary of Black Americans Reference E 185.96 K73 1992 African American Biographies: Profiles of 558 Current Men Reference E 185.96 H38 1992 and Women Contemporary Black Biography Reference E 185.96 C66 Heroes of Conscience Reference CT 120 G36 1996 American Reformers Reference CT 215 A67 1985 American Indian Biographies Reference E 89 A46 1999 One Hundred Twentieth-Century Philosophers Reference B 804 O55 1998 Thinkers of the 20th Century: A Biographical, Bibliographical Reference CT 120 T45 1983 and Critical Dictionary Fifty Major Thinkers on Education Reference LB 17 F56 2001 Lives of the Popes Reference BX 855.2 M39 1997 Film Choreographers and Dance Directors Reference GV 1779 B55 1997 International Dictionary of Reference GV 1585 B46 1998 Who Was Who in World Exploration Reference G 200 W24 1992 The Discovers: An Encyclopedia of Explorers and Reference G 200 D53 Exploration Biographical Dictionary of Modern Peace Leaders Reference JX 1962 A2 B56 1984 Encyclopedia of Serial Killers Reference HV 6505 E5 1996 Dictionary of American Military Biography Reference U 52 D53 1984 Who Was Who in the American Revolution Reference E 206 P87 1993 The Supreme Court Justices Illustrated Biographies 1789- Reference KF 8744 S86 1993 1993 International Cyclopedia of Music and Musicians Reference ML 100 I 57 1985 Dictionary of Composers and Their Music Reference ML 113 G4 1993 Great Composers 1300-1900 Reference ML 105 E944 Baker’s Biographical Dictionary of Popular Musicians Since Reference ML 102 P66 B35 2004 1990 2 vols. American Songwriters Reference ML 390 E825 1986 Rock Movers & Shakers Reference ML 385 R736 1991 Rock Who’s Who 2 nd ed. Reference ML 102 R6 H5 1996 Contemporary Composers Reference ML 105 C75 1992 Musicians Since 1900: Performers in Concert and Opera Reference ML 105 E97 Dictionary of Art 34 vols.; check index Reference N 31 D5 1996

15 World Artists, 1950-1980 Reference N 6489 M37 1984 Contemporary Artists Reference N 6490 C6567 1989 Yale Dictionary of Art & Artists Reference N 33 L353 2000 Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists Reference N 6512 C854 Dictionary of Russian & Soviet Artists Reference ND 681 M5 Contemporary Architects Reference NA 680 C625 1987 Contemporary Designers Reference NK 116 C66 1984a American Writers Before 1800: A Biographical Dictionary 3 Reference PS 185 A4 1983 vols. Latin American Writers 3 vols. Reference PQ 7081 A1 L37 1989 Contemporary Authors multi-volumes; use index Reference PN 771 C71 Cyclopedia of World Authors 3 vols. Reference PN 451 M36 1974 European Authors 11 vols. Reference PN 501 E9 1983 Science Fiction Writers Reference PN 56 S35 Dictionary of Writers and Their Works Reference PN 451 C99 2001 Greek and Latin Authors 800 B.C. – A.D. 1000 Reference PA 31 G7 Ancient Writers: Greece and Rome 2 vols. Reference PA 3002 A5 1982 Short Story Writers Reference PN 3373 S398 1998 Black Writers Reference PS 153 A4 M2 African American Writers Reference PS 153 N5 A344 1990 Spanish American Authors in the Twentieth Century Reference PQ 7081.3 F57 1992 American Authors 1600-1900 Reference PS 21 K8 American Writers 4 vols. with supplements Reference PS 129 A55 British Writers 8 vols. with supplements Reference PR 85 B688 Major Modern Dramatists Reference PN 1861 M27 1984 Contemporary Dramatists 3 rd ed. Reference PN 1861 C57 Contemporary North American Film Directors Reference PN 1998.2 C68 2002 Theatrical Directors: A Biographical Dictionary Reference PN 2205 T54 1994 American Men & Women of Science 7 vols. Reference Q 141 A47 Dictionary of Scientific Biography 14 vols. plus supplements Reference Q 141 D5 1981 Lives & Legacies: An Encyclopedia of People Who Changed Reference Q 141 S54 1999 the World: Scientists, Mathematicians, and Inventors Asimov’s Biographical Encyclopedia of Science & Reference Q 141 A74 1982 Technology Astronomers: The Biographical Dictionary of Scientists Reference QB 35 B56 1984 Notable Mathematicians from Ancient Times to the Present Reference QA 28 N66 1998 The Scientific 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Reference Q 148 S55 1996 Scientists, Past and Present Chemists: The Biographical Dictionary of Scientists Reference QD 21 B48 1984 Dictionary of American Medical Biography 2 vols. Reference R 153 D53 1984 Black Authors and Illustrators of Books for Children and Reference PN 1009 A1 M87 2007 Young Adults Home Front Heroes: A Biographical Dictionary of Americans Reference E 181 H755 2006 During Wartime Black American Military Leaders: A Biographical Dictionary Reference E 181 H382 2007 Notable American Novelists Reference PS 371 N68 2008

16 COLLECTIVE BIOGRAPHIES AND ENCYCLOPEDIAS DEVOTED TO WOMEN Title Location Call Number Notable American Women: A Biographical Dictionary 3 vols. Reference CT 3260 N57 Notable American Women: The Modern Period Reference CT 3260 N573 1980b Notable Black American Women 2 vols. Reference E 185.96 N68 1992 Remarkable Women of the Twentieth Century Reference CT 3235 G65 1998 American Women Writers from Colonial Times to the Present Reference PS 147 A4 4 vols. Modern American Women Writers Reference PS 151 M54 1990 Female Dramatists: Profiles of Women Playwrights from the Reference PN 471 P37 1998 Middle Ages to Contemporary Times Webster’s Dictionary of American Women Reference HQ 1412 W4 1996 Encyclopedia of Feminism Reference HQ 1115 T87 1986 Larousse Dictionary of Women Reference HQ 1115 L37 1996 Great Lives from History: American Women Series 5 vols. Reference HQ 1412 G74 1995 The Encyclopedia of Women’s History in America: Over 300 Reference HQ 1410 C85 1996 Years of Movements, Breakthroughs, Legislation, Court Cases, and Notable Women Rolling Stone Book of Women in Rock Reference ML 394 T76 1997 Norton/Grove Dictionary of Women Composers Reference ML 105 N67 1995 Women Artists in America 18 th Century to the Present Reference N 6536 C523 1980 Contemporary Women Artists Reference N 8354 C66 1999 Dictionary of Women Artists 2 vols. Reference N 8354 D53 1997 American Men & Women of Science 7 vols. Reference Q 141 A47 American Women in Science: A Biographical Dictionary Reference Q 141 B25 1994 American Women in Science, 1950 to the Present: A Reference Q 141 B254 1998 Biographical Dictionary A Biographical Dictionary A To Z of Women in Science and Reference Q 141 Y675 1999 Math Notable Women in the Physical Sciences: A Biographical Reference Q 141 N734 1997 Dictionary Black Women Scientists in the United States Reference Q 141 W367 1999 Notable Women in the Life Sciences: A Biographical Reference QH 26 N68 1996 Dictionary

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