It seems that every television season is chock full of shows that delve into the lives of the famous and the infamous. Libraries are stocked with biographies, autobiographies, memoirs, and biographical reference books like Current Biography and American National Biography, which tell the life story on anyone imaginable. The Internet is also loaded with biographical web sites. You can browse through the individual listings, the collections of biographical databases, or the special collections. I enjoyed perusing through this site and randomly clicking on names.
Some links are dead, but the overall product is useful.
I hope that you have as much fun as I did browsing though with these biography sites. Type in your state, pick a county, and a list will display, complete with phone number, contact name, and a link to their homepage. This site will assist the novice in learning the trade, complete with its Investopedia University. Clicking on any links outside of the CPL Internet Gazette is at the users own risk.