First Steps Choose the Biography Resource Center from our list of databases . To use this database outside the library, you will need your Arlington library card. The Biography Resource Center is a comprehensive database of biographical information of more than 200,000 people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas. More than 25,000 notable men and women from ancient times to the present day are identified with a short entry. The dictionary can be searched by name, birth year, death year, position held, profession, literary and artistic work, miscellaneous achievement, or other keyword.
Obituaries are an interesting way to learn about someone's life.
More than 30,000 biographies from the Information Please almanacs and the Columbia Encyclopedia. Searchable by an individual's name or subject categories, such as Sports and People in the News. Links to thousands of biographies, autobiographies, memoirs, diaries, letters, narratives, oral histories, and more. Individual lives of the famous, the infamous, and the not so famous. Group biographies about people who share a common profession, historical era, or geography.