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Biography

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Anthropology

Biographical Dictionary of Social and Cultural Anthropology
GN 20 .B5 2004 (Howe Library Reference)

Art and Architecture

Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (5 volumes)
N 40 .B94 1918 (Howe Library Reference)

Contemporary Architects
NA 680 .C625 1994 (Howe Library Reference)

Contemporary Artists
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Dictionary of Art (34 volumes)
N 31 .D5 1996 (Howe Library Reference)
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Dictionary of Women Artists (2 volumes)
N 8354 .D53 1997 (Howe Library Reference)

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Self Taught, Outsider, and Folk Art:  A Guide to American Artists, Locations and Resources
NK 805 .S46 2000 (Howe Library Reference)

St. James Guide to Black Artists
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Business

Corporate Eponymy:  A Biographical Dictionary of the Persons Behind the Names of Major American, British, European, and Asian Business
HC 29 .R66 1992 (Howe Library Reference)

Entrepreneurs, the Men and Women Behind Famous Brand Names and How They Made It
HC 29 .F83 1985 (Howe Library Reference)

Historical Encyclopedia of American Women Entrepreneurs: 1776 to the present
HF 3023 .A2 O64 2000 (Howe Library Reference)

Economics

Biographical Dictionary of Women Economists
HB 76 .B535 2000 (Howe Library Reference)

Biographical Dictionary of Dissenting Economists
HB 76 .B5 1992 (Howe Library Reference)

Fifty Major Economists
HB 76 .P74 2014 (Howe Library Reference)

Great Economists Before Keynes: An Introduction to the Lives & Works of One Hundred Economists of the Past
HB 76 .B54 1986 (Howe Library Reference)

Great Economists Since Keynes: An Introduction to the Lives & Works of One Hundred Modern Economists
HB 76 .B55 1985 (Howe Library Reference)

Education

Biographical Dictionary of American Educators (3 volumes)
LA 2311 .B54 (Howe Library Reference)

Directory of American Scholars
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Fifty Major Thinkers on Education:  From Confucius to Dewey
LB 17 .F56 2001 (Howe Library Reference)

Fifty Modern Thinkers on Education:  From Piaget to the Present
LB 17 .F57 2001 (Howe Library Reference)

Patterson's American Education
L 901 .P3 (latest volume) (Howe Library Reference)

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Examines the lives and works of authors and illustrators for children and young adults. Includes images.

Environmental Studies

American Environmental Leaders:  From Colonial Times to the Present (2 volumes)
GE 55 .B43 2018 (Howe Library Reference)

American Nature Writers (2 volumes)
PS 163 .A6 1996 (Howe Library Reference)

Biographical Dictionary of American and Canadian Naturalists and Environmentalists
QH 26 .B535 1997 (Howe Library Reference)

Environmentalists: A Biographical Dictionary from the 17th Century to the Present
S 926.A2 A94 1993 (Howe Library Reference)

National Leaders of American Conservation
S 926.A2 N37 1985 (Howe Library Reference)

Film

Great Movie Stars (3 volumes)
PN 1998 .A2 S54 1995 (Howe Library Reference)

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Women Filmmakers & their Films
PN 1998.2 .W66 1998 (Howe Library Reference)

History

American Women Historians, 1700s-1990s:  A Biographical Dictionary
E 175 .45 .S27 1996 (Howe Library Reference)

Blackwell Dictionary of Historians
D 14 .B58 1988 (Howe Library Reference)

Great Historians From Antiquity to 1800:  An International Dictionary
D 14 .G74 1989 (Howe Library Reference)

Great Historians of the Modern Age:  An International Dictionary
D 14 .G75 1991 (Howe Library Reference)

Literature (in English)

African American Writers (2 volumes)
PS 153 .N5 A344 2001 (Howe Library Reference)

American Writers: A Collection of Literary Biographies (multi-volume)
PS 129 .A55 (Howe Library Reference)
17th century to the present.

British Writers (multi-volume)
PR 85 .B688 (Howe Library Reference)
14th century to the present.

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Searchable database of full-text literary biographies profiling people from every era.

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Covers all eras and genres.

Native North American Literature: Biographical and Critical information on Native Writers and Orators from the United States and Canada from Historical Times to the Present
PS 508 .I5 N38 1994 (Howe Library Reference)

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Examines the lives and works of authors and illustrators for children and young adults. Includes images.

Mathematics

Mathematicians from Antiquity to Today
QA 28 .F3 (Howe Library Reference)

Notable Mathematicians
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Notable Women in Mathematics: A Biographical Dictionary
QA 28 .N68 1998 (Howe Library Reference)

Music

Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians
ML 105 .B16 (Howe Library Reference)
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Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music
ML 105 .H38 1996 (Howe Library Reference)

International Encyclopedia of Women Composers (2 volumes)
ML 105 .C7 1987 (Howe Library Reference)

New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (29 volumes)
ML 100 .N48 2001 (Howe Library Reference)
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Contemporary Musicians
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Philosophy

Fifty Key Medieval Thinkers
BR 1702 .E93 2002 (Howe Library Reference)

Fifty Major Philosophers
B 72 .C59 2006 (Howe Library Reference)

Great Thinkers of the Eastern World:  The Major Thinkers and the Philosophical and Religious Classics of China, India, Japan, Korea, and the World of Islam
B 5005 .G74 1995 (Howe Library Reference)

Great Thinkers of the Western World: The Major Ideas and Classic Works of More than 100 Outstanding Western Philosophers, Physical and Social Scientists, Psychologists, Religious Writers, and Theologians.
B 72 .G74 1992 (Howe Library Reference)

One Hundred Twentieth-Century Philosophers
B 804 .O55 1998 (Howe Library Reference)

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Women Philosophers
B 105 .W6 K47 1989 (Howe Library Reference)

Political Science and Government

Dictionary of Political Biography  Icon

Fifty Major Political Thinkers
JA 66 .A314 2007 (Howe Library Reference)

Religion

Dictionary of American Religious Biography
BL 72 .B68 1993 (Howe Library Reference)

Great Thinkers of the Eastern World:  The Major Thinkers and the Philosophical and Religious Classics of China, India, Japan, Korea, and the World of Islam
B 5005 .G74 1995 (Howe Library Reference)

Great Thinkers of the Western World: The Major Ideas and Classic Works of More than 100 Outstanding Western Philosophers, Physical and Social Scientists, Psychologists, Religious Writers, and Theologians.
B 72 .G74 1992 (Howe Library Reference)

Science

American Men and Women of Science (8 volumes)
Q 141 .A474 (Howe Library Reference)
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Dictionary of Scientific Biography (18 volumes)
Q141 .D5 (Howe Library Reference)

Notable Twentieth-Century Scientists (5 volumes)
Q 141 .N73 1995 (Howe Library Reference)

Sociology

Beyond the Enlightenment: Lives and Thoughts of Social Theorists
HM 478 .S35 2004 (Howe Library Reference)

Sociological Theory: Classical Statements
HM 24 .A77 1995 (Howe Library Reference)