Students-- use sites below to find information about authors that interest you--they are grouped in categories.  Remember to keep track of the sites used so you can cite them in your bibliography.

**Teachers see links below for some super lesson plan ideas when doing biography projects. Grade leveled lesson plans, standards and interactive sites are included.

Links to biographies by numerous categories

http://www.multcolib.org/homework/biohc.html

Women's History

http://www.galegroup.com/free_resources/whm/bio/index.htm

Women mathematicians

http://www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/women.htm

Women mathematicians

http://www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/women.htm

Mathematicians

http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/BiogIndex.html

Scientist Biographies

http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/

Inventors hall of fame

http://www.invent.org/hall_of_fame/1_1_search.asp

Inventors

http://www.ideafinder.com/history/of_inventors.htm

Hispanic Biographies

http://www.galegroup.com/free_resources/chh/bio/

Black Americans

http://www.galegroup.com/free_resources/bhm/bio/

AMERICAN PRESIDENTS AND NOTEWORTHY PEOPLE

American Presidents

http://www.americanpresidents.org/

TIME 100: The People Who Shape our World
http://www.time.com/time/2006/time100/

THE ARTS (classical music & writers)

Classical musicians

http://www.karadar.com/Dictionary/Default.htm

Poet's Corner

http://www.galegroup.com/free_resources/poets/bio/

Find a Poet

http://www.poets.org/page.php/prmID/58

American authors

http://www.americanwriters.org

Fun, interactive Biocube for students to make on computer, print and assemble

http://readwritethink.org/materials/bio_cube/.

Leveled biography lesson plans, activities and standards from NCTE

http://www.readwritethink.org/student_mat/student_material.asp?id=57