Utilize biography databases for biographical and historical background about your author. For biography databases, use these helpful tips:
- Last name first -
- Bradstreet, Anne
- Irving, Washington
For searching the catalog (Find Books) and databases (Best Bets) , use these helpful tips:
- Anne Bradstreet and puritanism
- Anne Bradstreet and sex*
- Anne Bradstreet and criticism
- Mary Rowlandson and Native Americans
- Cotton Mather and Salem witch trials
- Benjamin Franklin and Puritan work ethic
- Phillis Wheatley and Atlantic slave trade
- James Fenimore Cooper and environment*
- Augustus Baldwin Longstreet and American humor
- George Washington Harris and temperance movement
- Edgar Allan Poe and sound poetry
- Ralph Waldo Emerson and originality
- Walt Whitman and Whitman, Alabama
- Emily Dickinson and sex*
- Frederick Douglass and literacy
- Harriet Beecher Stowe and religion
