Biography in Context: Research Tools: Kanawha County Public Library

What is Biography in Context?

Biography database containing information on 335,000+ people throughout history and from around the world. You can search for anyone from Socrates to Richard Petty.

Information, when available, comes in the form of:
- Brief biographies
- In-depth biographies
- Magazine articles
- Recent updates
- Relevant and related websites.
In addition it includes a spotlight feature highlighting a particular person.

Things to Know

Not only can you search by name, but users can also find people by other identifiers such as occupation, gender, nationality, etc.
Remember: Search results will have highlighted tabs at the top depending on what is available. Look at the tabs for your complete results list.
If you mark your entries, you can turn this list into a list of citations by hitting the View Citations List button.
Results and citations can be both printed and emailed