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Jessie Ball duPont Library

Biography: Printed Resources

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Reference Works

The African American National Biography  (Ref. E 195.96 .A4466 2008)

Amiercan National Biography (Ref. CT 213 .A68 1999)

Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography (Ref. E 176 .A65)

Current Biography Yearbook  (Ref. CT 100 .C8)

Dictionary of American Biography (E 176.D562)

Dictionary of American Catholic Biography (Ref. U52 .D53 1984)

Dictionary of National Biography (DA 28.D4)

Encyclopedia Judaica (Theology Ref. DS 102.8 .E496 2007)  3 vols.

International Who's Who  (Ref. CT 120 .I5)