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Library Resources

January 2008

Finding Biographical and Background Information

Literature Resource Center.
This database provides biographical articles on writers, plus some magazine and journal articles. Look for the biographies from the Dictionary of Literary Biography -- they are really good.

Biography Resource Center.
This database has biographical articles from a variety of reference works.
PT section of the Reference area in Lilly .
"PT" is the call number for German-language literature. In this section of the Reference area, you will find several works that will give good biographical and background information on German and Austrian writers.

Modern Germany: an Encyclopedia of History, People, and Culture, 1871-1990. 2 vols.
Ref DD 14 .M64 1997
Earlham Libraries Online Catalog  
Find books in the Earlham libraries. Besides doing a subject keyword search on your writer, try keyword or browse searches on the following formal Subject Headings:
-Germany intellectual life
-Romanticism Germany
-German literature 19th century
-Germany history