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Biographies of influential people worldwide and from many time periods. Includes encyclopedia articles, magazine articles, and some multimedia.
eBook collection covering a wide range of subjects. eBooks User Guide & Recommended Browser Settings
TIP: When searching in the catalog for biographies: search for your person as a subject and combine their name with the word biography:
Example: Sonia Sotomayor Biography
Definitions credit:
The American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, edited by Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries, Houghton Mifflin, 5th edition, 2011. Credo Reference