Hispanic Biography
Pathfinder
Livonia High School Library
May 2013
Books
305.868 MIN
Mintzer, Richard. Latino Americans in Sports, Film, Music, and Government: Trailblazers. Philadelphia:
Mason Crest Publishers, c2006. Examines the growth of the Hispanic community in the United States
and the educational, social, economic, political, and cultural impact of that growth on America.
920 F
Morey, Janet Nomura. Famous Hispanic Americans. CobblehillBks/Dutton, [c1996].
Profiles the lives of fourteen Hispanic Americans, including, Gloria Estefan, Andy Garcia,
Ellen Ochoa, Felipe Alou, and Carolina Herrera.
R 700 LIV
Lives and Works in the Arts. M E Sharpe Reference, 1996. Surveys the lives and works or European and
American writers, artists, and composers from the Renaissance into the twentieth century.
R 781.66 CLI
Clifford, Mike. The Harmony Illustrated Encyclopedia of Rock. New York: Harmony, 1986.
R 920
The McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Biography: an International Reference Work. New
York: McGraw-Hill, 1973 (also available as an ebook – see under “Articles”, below).
R 920 CUR
Current Biography Yearbook. H W Wilson, 2001. (also included and continued in the database Wilson
Biographies).
R 920 ERG
Ergas, G. Aimée. Artists: from Michelangelo to Maya Lin. New York: UXL, c1995.
Biographies of sixty-two North American and European artists from the Renaissance to the present.
R 920 D
Dictionary of Hispanic Biography. Gale Research, [c1995]. Provides brief profiles of Hispanic authors,
entertainers, athletes, politicians, scientists, and educators.
R 920 WOR
World Leaders of the Twentieth Century. Hackensack, NJ: Salem.1999. Covers 20th Century
World Leaders.
REF 920 BAK
Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians. Centennial ed. New York: Schirmer Books,
c2001. Contains entries that provide biographical and career information about classical,
jazz, and popular musicians from throughout history.
REF 920 MOS
Moss, Joyce. Profiles in World History: Significant Events and the People Who Shaped Them.
Detroit, MI: UXL, 1996. Volumes present life stories of 175+ individuals who have played key roles
in world history.
REF 920 WIG
Wigoder, Geoffrey. They Made History: a Biographical Dictionary. New York: Simon &
Schuster, 1993. This text offers biographical entries of the men and women who shaped
world history: politicians, poets, artists, scientists and more.
R 920.02
Nagel, Rob. World Leaders: People Who Shaped the World. UXL,1994.
R 973.04 F
Fernández-Shaw, Carlos M. The Hispanic Presence in North America from 1492 to Today. New York : Facts
on File, c1991. Study of the Hispanic presence and culture in North America.
Individual biographies may be found by looking up the last name of the “biographee” in the library catalog (click on
subject or keyword). The series Hispanic Heritage includes 16 volumes which contain information on Hispanic culture in
the U.S. These are interspersed throughout the non-fiction section; find them by typing “Hispanic Heritage” in the
catalog search box, then clicking “Series”.
Articles
Click on the “Subscription Databases” button on the LCS High School Library web page. Enter the passwords. Try the
following databases:
Biography Reference Bank for biographical information from books and periodicals.
Gale E-Books (Gale Virtual Reference Library) for articles from reference books, including
The McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Biography: an International Reference Work
Gale Periodicals for magazine, journal, and newspaper articles.
Student Resources in Context for articles from a variety of sources including audio and video.
Websites
Click on the “Subject Links” button on the LCS High School Library website. Click on the “biography” box on the green
grid. This will give you a list of links to websites with great biographical information.
If you choose to do a Google (or other search engine) search on your topic, remember that you don’t know if anyone
has checked the information that you find. It could be anything from total fabrication to 100% accurate! So be sure to
evaluate your websites! (for tips, click on the Website Evaluation link after clicking the “Search Engines” button on the
LCS High School Library website).
Some reliable websites:
Colloquia: Revista Cultural
http://coloquio.com/
Thomson Gale: Celebrating Hispanic Heritage
http://www.gale.cengage.com/free_resources/chh/bio/
Internet Public Library/Biographies
http://www.ipl.org/div/subject/browse/ref15.00.00/
The Library Spot/Biographies
http://www.libraryspot.com/biographies/
Voices from the Gaps: Women Artists and Writers of Color
http://voices.cla.umn.edu/
Google Books
http://books.google.com/bkshp?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tab=wp