YCCC: Virtual Reference Collection: Biographies/Book Reviews

Biographies/General

Academy of Achievement
Features leaders from the arts, business, public service, science and exploration, and sports. Provides links to video and podcasts.
Biographical Dictionary
4000 biographies covering ancient times to the present
Biography.com
Website of A & E's Biography television series includes the searchable text of 15,000 entries from The Cambridge Biographical Encyclopedia
InfoPlease Biograpy
Includes more than 30,000 searcheable and browsable biographies.