A biography is a detailed description or account of someone's life and the times, which is told by a different author. A biography is more than a list of impersonal facts (education, work, relationships, and death); it also portrays the subject's experience of those events.
To find information on your author, do the following:
To find information on your author, click on Person Search, which will return items that were written by that person or that contain a significant amount of information about him or her. Remember: Several people may have the same name. There will be a way to narrow your search further once you get to this page. Once you select the correct author, click on Biographies under the Content Type heading.
To find information on your author, click on Person Search, which will return items that were written by that person or that contain a significant amount of information about him or her. Remember: Several people may have the same name. There will be a way to narrow your search further once you get to this page. Once you select the correct author, click on Biographies under the Content Type heading.
To identify articles written by and about your author:
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. Many articles are freely available in Google Scholar. If you are on-campus, Google Scholar will show you journals that the Madigan Library pays for by using the Get It @ Madigan Library link. If you are off-campus, you can set Google Scholar to see all of Madigan Library access to full-text articles using the PDF directions below, or use our Journal Locator to find out if Penn College students have access to the journal.