Research Guides @ Fordham: Biographical Research: Sports, Entertainment & Arts

Sports

Latino and African American Athletes Today: A Biographical Dictionary by David L. Porter (Editor)
Call Number: (RH) Ref GV697.A1 L345 2004
Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2004.
International Encyclopedia of Women and Sports by Karen Christensen (Editor); Allen Guttmann (Editor); Gertrude Pfister (Editor)
Call Number: (RH) Ref GV709 .I58
New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 2001.
Biographies of women athletes and sports administrators as well as general articles about women and sports.
Scribner's Encyclopedia of American Lives: Sports Figures by Arnie Markoe (Editor)
New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2002.
Biographies of athletes from a wide variety of sports including bowling, polo, auto racing, etc. Occupation and subject indices.
Great Athletes, Rev. ed. by Rafer Johnson (Consultant Editor); Salem Press Editors (Editor); Dawn P. Dawson (Editor-In-Chief); R. Kent Rasmussen (Editorial Coordinator)
Call Number: (RH) Ref GV697.A1 G68, 8 vols.
Pasadena, Calif.: Salem Press, 2002.
Biographies indexed by name, sport, and country; with photos, glossary, awards, halls of fame, and a timeline.
Biographical Dictionary of American Sports: Baseball, Rev. ed. by David L. Porter
Call Number: (RH) Ref GV865.A1 B55, 3 vols.
Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2000.
Biographies of Major league players, managers, executives, and umpires, also included are All-American Girls League players.

Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, centennial edition by Nicolas Slonimsky (Editor)
Call Number: (LC, RH) Ref ML105 .B3, 6 vols.
New York: Schirmer Books, 2001.
Biographies of musicians, living and deceased, contemporary and classical.
Benezit Dictionary of Artists by Editions Grund (Editor)
Call Number: (LC RH) Ref N40 .B47, 14 vols.
Paris: Gründ, 2006.
Includes brief biographical profiles as well as bibliographies, museum & gallery collections of note, selected auction records and artist signature reproductions.
The Dictionary of Art by Jane Turner (Editor)
Call Number: (LC RH) Ref N31 .D5, 34 vols.
New York: Grove's Dictionaries, 1996.
A multi-volume set with biographies of artists from all periods and countries.
International Dictionary of Modern Dance by Taryn Benbow-Pfalzgraf (Editor); Glynis Benbow-Niemier (Contribution by); St. James Press Staff
Call Number: (LC RH) Ref GV1585.I58.
Detroit, MI: St. James Press, 1998.
Brief Biographies, lists of roles danced, bibliographies, and photos.
The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd ed. by Stanley Sadie (Editor); John Tyrrell (Editor)
Call Number: ( LC RH) Ref ML100.N48, 29 vols.
New York: Grove's Dictionaries, 2001.
The St. James Women Filmmakers Encyclopedia: Women on the Other Side of the Camera by St. James Press Staff; Amy L. Unterburger
Call Number: (LC, RH) Ref PN1998.2. S683 1999
Detroit: Visible Ink Press, 1999.
Brief biographies and filmographies, some photos.

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Resources for art research including Grove Art Online - the world's largest art encyclopedia and Encyclopedia of Aesthetics. Fordham University community can ignore the log in box! Subscription DOES NOT INCLUDE Benezit Dictionary of Artists. Limited to 5 Simultaneous Users.
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Resources for music research including Grove Music Online - the leading dictionary of music, musicians, opera and jazz. Fordham University community can ignore the log in box! Limited to 5 Simultaneous Users.