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Biographies

Whether you want to know who's who from the distant or recent past, a biography can help you find facts on the lives of the famous and infamous. Come check out the GCC Library's collection of biographies, both print and electronic. We also have library databases devoted to biographies, so please make sure to check under the "Reference Databases" tab on the left for more biographical facts.


Click the subject search below for access to the GCC Library's collections in OneSearch. You can also select either the print or ebook tab to the left to view selected books from the catalog. Or use the search tip below to find biographies about specific people or subjects.

Search Tips

Search Tips: 

If you're looking for a biography about a specific person or subject, use the person's name or the subject as a keyword and add "biography" to it in the search box and then select "that contain my keywords in subject" from the dropdown menu below the search box. For example: 

OneSearch query box with american poets AND biography entered as keywords for a subject search

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