Library: EN 221: African American Literature: Biographical Information

African American Biographical Sources - Library

Biography (Gale In Context) This link opens in a new window
Search for biographies based on name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth/death dates and places, gender, or other keywords.
Gale Literature This link opens in a new window
Access the full text of thousands of literary works as well as scholarly journal articles related to literature, literary criticisms and reviews, and author biographies. You can research authors and their works, literary movements and genres.
Literature Resource Center This link opens in a new window
Up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on nearly 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world.

Voices from the Gaps
University of Minnesota professors Toni McNaron (English) and Carol Miller (American Studies and American Indian Studies) founded VG/Voices from the Gaps in 1996 to uncover, highlight, and share the works of marginalized artists, predominately women writers of color living and working in North America. Voices from the Gaps contains book reviews, biographies, essays, and interviews.