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Biographies
Biography.com.
Search for information on over 25,000 personalities.
Biographical Dictionary.
Contains more than 28,000 entries and can be searched by birth years, death years, positions held, professions, literary and artistic works, and achievements.
Biographies of Famous Women.
Biographies comprising educators, scientists, politicians, civil rights crusaders, artists, writers, entertainers, and more.
LitWeb.
More than 500 biographies of writers are included in the Authors Index.
Lives, the Biography Resource.
Directory of biographies, autobiographies, memoirs, diaries, letters, narratives, and oral histories.
Who2 Biographical Database.
Who2 helps you find famous persons quickly with an A-Z index and searchable database. The database is designed to be "the Web's most direct guide to facts about famous people", including date of birth and death, famous works, and other details.
Gale Group Biography Resource Center.
A one-stop biographical research system containing more than 400,000 biographies on nearly 275,000 people. Requires subscription.

Quotations
Bartlett's Quotations.
Over 11,000 searchable quotations.
The Quotations Page.
Classic and motivational quotations (even quotations for the cynic.)
Land of Quotes.
Quotations by topic, by author, and literary quotations.
Famous Quotes and Quotations.
Inspirational quotes, leadership quotes, it's all here. See also GIGA, a collection of 50,000 ancient and modern quotations, aphorisms, maxims, proverbs, and sayings.
Fagan Quote and Proverb Finder.
This specialty engine for quotations may come close to "having it all".

Style Guides
A Guide for Writing Research Papers.
MLA style documentation.
APA Documentation Style.
APA style guide from the University of Wisconsin.
Online! Citation Styles.
MLA, APA, and Chicago style guides for the citation of Internet resources.
The Elements of Style.
William Strunk's classic reference book, searchable and provided by Bartleby.

See also Academics and Academic Research.

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