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Biographies: Finding Biographical Articles

This guide provides an overview of the biographical resources at the BC Library.

Gale Biography in Context

To find articles about a person, click on the link to Gale Biographies in Context above. You can also find this link on the library homepage in the A-Z Library Databases.

Search for biographies of a particular person in Gale Biography in Context by typing their name into the search bar, then clicking on their name in the search results.

Next, click on the "Biographies" section for a list of the biographies about this person contained in the database.

 

 

Searching for Biographies on the Internet

To search for information on the internet (using Google, etc.), narrow your search to only look for websites that end in .org, .edu, or .gov. For biographies, the best ending is probably .org or .gov. To do this, type the person's name within quotation marks, then type "site:.org" or "site:.gov". Example: "Maya Angelou" site:.org