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Reference Books

American National Biography by John A. Garraty (Editor); Mark C. Carnes (Editor)
Call Number: Brooklyn - Reference - CT213.A68 1999
Publication Date: 1999
The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives by Kenneth T. Jackson (Editor)
Call Number: Brooklyn - Reference - CT213.S37 1998
Publication Date: 1998
Research Guide to American Historical Biography by Robert Muccigrosso (Editor)
Call Number: Brooklyn - Reference - CT214.R47 1988
Publication Date: 1988
Dictionary of American Biography by Allen Johnson, (Editor)
Call Number: Brooklyn - Reference - E176.D558
Publication Date: 1928
Notable American Women 1607-1950 by Edward T. James (Editor)
Call Number: Brooklyn - Reference - CT3260.N57
Publication Date: 1971
Notable American Women: The Modern Period by Barbara Sicherman and Carol Hurd Green (Editors)
Call Number: Brooklyn - Reference - CT3260.N573
Publication Date: 1980
Who's Who of American Women 2010-2011 by Marquis Who's Who Staff
Call Number: Brooklyn - Reference - CT3260.W5 2010/2011
Publication Date: 2010
African American National Biography by Henry Louis Gates (Editor); Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham (Editor)
Call Number: Brooklyn - Reference - E185.96.A4466
Publication Date: 2008
Notable Latino Americans by Matt S. Meier; Conchita F. Serri; Richard A. Garcia
Call Number: Brooklyn - Reference - E184.S75 M435 1997
Publication Date: 1997
Jewish Americans by Rafael Medoff; Salem Press Staff
Call Number: Brooklyn - Reference - E184.37.A137 2011
Publication Date: 2011
Asian American Biography by Susan B. Gall; Helen Zia
Call Number: Brooklyn - Reference - E184.O6 A85x 1995
Publication Date: 1995
American Artists by Les Krantz (Editor)
Call Number: Brooklyn - Reference - N6512.A578 1985
Publication Date: 1985
Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists by Paul Cummings (Editor)
Call Number: Brooklyn - Reference - N6536.C8 1982
Publication Date: 1982
American Women Artists: from Early Indian Times to the Present by Charlotte S. Rubinstein
Call Number: Brooklyn - Reference - N6505.R8 1982
Publication Date: 1982
American Writers by Leonard Unger
Call Number: Brooklyn - Reference - PS129.A55
Publication Date: 1977
African-American Writers by Valerie Smith (Editor)
Call Number: Brooklyn - Reference - PS153.N5 A344 2001
Publication Date: 2000
American Women Writers by Lina Mainiero (Editor)
Call Number: Brooklyn - Reference - PS147 A4
Publication Date: 1979
Modern American Women Writers by Elaine Showalter (Editor); A. Walton Litz (Editor); Lea Baechler (Editor)
Call Number: Brooklyn - Reference - PS151.M54 1990
Publication Date: 1991
Latino and Latina Writers by Mark Drouillard (Editor)
Call Number: Brooklyn - Reference - PS153.H56 L39 2004
Publication Date: 2003

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