Includes a biography, bibliography, location of manuscript collections, list of critical studies, and essay by a critic. Supplement list screen writers, radio writers, television writers, musical librettists, theaters of mixed means, theater collections. Who's Who in the Theatre. W46 First edition was in 1912. Includes American theater 15 people.
Earlier volumes are in the stacks, with the same call number.
Gale Research Co., c1978. The World Biographical Index is a good first step for locating very basic information about people from North and South America, Western and Central Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and Oceania, through the beginning of the 20th century. It is essentially an index to over 3000 biographical reference works. It contains over one million entries. You may search for people whose name you know, or you may search, for example, for women performing artists from the seventeenth century.