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Biography Index

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About Biography Index

The Biography Index is a bibliographic database that cites biographical material appearing in periodicals indexed in other H.W. Wilson Company databases and additional selected periodicals, current books (annually) of individual and collective biography, and incidental biographical material in otherwise non-biographical books. Periodicals indexed are selected from all subject areas represented by other Wilson databases. Biographical subjects indexed range from antiquity to the present and represent all fields and nationalities.

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Years of Coverage: 1984-present

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    Source List:
    Journal Directory
    Other Versions:
    Biography Index SML, Reference, Z5301 B56 (LC)
    Related Resources:
    American National Biography
    Biography Resource Center
    Gale Literary Databases Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, and Dictionary of Literary Biography
    World Biographical Index
    Biography Databases

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    Because authors are entered in the database in the form Last, First and Last F., the recommended approach is to search for Last, First OR Last, F. Do not use truncation in author searches.