Biographies

Offers a comprehensive collection of more than 450,000 full text biographies. Brought to you by the Library of Michigan via the Michigan eLibrary (https://mel.org).

Gale Literature Resource Center is Gale’s most current, comprehensive, and reliable online literature resource, offering the broadest and most representative range of authors and their works, including a deep collection of full-text critical and literary analysis for literary studies.

Researchers can find up-to-date analysis, biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism, and reviews on more than 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods, and from around the world. Researchers with a literature, history, arts, gender studies, or cultural studies focus can use this resource to analyze authors and works throughout time.

Features full text for more than 1,620 reference books, encyclopedias and non-fiction books. Also includes full text for more than 150 periodicals, nearly 57,000 historical documents, more than 77,000 biographies; more than 113,000 historical photos and maps. Brought to you by the Library of Michigan via the Michigan eLibrary (https://mel.org).

Contains over 400 full-text titles from leading academic journals, monographs, related articles from major periodicals and newspapers, and over 1600 biographies of leading historical and contemporary Jews. Brought to you by the Library of Michigan via the Michigan eLibrary (https://mel.org).

A full-text database that combines information from thousands of reference works, books, and literary journals. Content includes plot summaries, essays of literary criticism, author biographies, book reviews, poems, short stories, and author interviews. Brought to you by the Library of Michigan via the Michigan eLibrary (https://mel.org).

Open Book Publishers (OBP) is a leading independent open access academic press that publishes peer-reviewed, award-winning monographs, edited collections, textbooks, critical translations and more. All Open Book Publishers books are freely available in open access formats (PDF, HTML and XML).

A collection of full-text poetry and short stories, ranging in period from antiquity to the present, as well as biographies and authoritative essays on such topics as poetic forms, movements and techniques. Brought to you by the Library of Michigan via the Michigan eLibrary (https://mel.org).