Series: World Biographical Archive.
Located in the Kelley Center for Government Information and Microforms.
Biographical material was collected from 246 reference works; researchers can access approximately 145,000 biographical entries on ca. 120,000 individuals.
DLB outlines the lives and careers of authors from all eras and genres and summarizes the critical response to their work.
DLB outlines the lives and careers of authors from all eras and genres and summarizes the critical response to their work. In addition, each DLB entry contains: personal information (birth/death dates, nationality/ethnicity, principal genres, awards, family history, and some entries include an author portrait), principal Works (a list of the author's most important writings, further Readings about the author (a list of additional writings,published interviews, biographies, and a bibliography of writings about the author).
Indexes current and retrospective reference sources, such as biographical dictionaries, subject encyclopedias, and indexes. Contains citations to over 13 million biographical sketches from multiple reference works that cover individuals, both living and deceased, from every field of activity and from all areas of the world.