Biography Resource Center

For author research you just can't beat Biography Resource Center! This site offers full length biographical entries from reference books. (Remember these are considered "books" when you are citing your sources for a research paper.) There is also a tab for magazine articles which can provide access to reviews and feature pieces that are also fully edited and thus considered "print resources". And even if your writer is fairly new, or writes less literary fiction, or children's books they are still very likely to be represented here.