Subject
Research Guides
First Year Seminars:
Voice of My Own
This guide is intended as a research tool to help you locate background information, books, articles, and internet/web links on memoir writing, oral history, poetry, biography, diaries, letters, autobiography, and biography.
Background Information Sources
| American Diaries (2 vols.) | REF CT214 .A74 1983 |
| Notable Women in American History | REF CT3260 .A27 1999 |
| Through a Woman’s I | REF CT3260 .A32 1983 |
| Published Diaries and Letters of American Women | REF CT3260 .G66 1987 |
| Oxford Companion to Women’s Writing in the U.S. | REF PS147 .O94 1995 |
| Contemporary Women Poets | REF PS151 .C67 1998 |
| Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature | REF PS153 .N5 C59 2001 |
| Lesbian and Gay Voices | REF PS169 .H65 D24 2000 |
| American Diversity, American Identity | REF PS169 .N35 A44 1995 |
Books
Search the library catalog for books on your subject using words or word combinations below, or visit the library’s 2nd floor and browse the following call number ranges: CT, PR, and PS.
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Internet Resources
Several internet resources have been selected below. Additional links are available from Web Resources page.
- In the First Person
http://www.alexanderstreet6.com/firp/
index to letters, diaries, oral histories, memoirs, and autobiographies - Center for Biographical Research
http://www.hawaii.edu/biograph/cbrlinks.html
life writing resources and links - The Lifewriter’s Digest
http://www.turningmemories.com/lifewritersdigest.html
articles and resources for memoir writers - Studs Terkel
http://www.studsterkel.org/
collection of interviews conducted by Studs Terkel - Historical Voices
http://www.historicalvoices.org/
database of spoken word collections spanning 20th century - Academy of American Poets
http://www.poets.org/
poems, essays, interviews, biographies of poets, and other resources - Rutgers Library School: Biography
http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/~kvander/biography.html
bibliography on biography and autobiography - Rutgers Library School: Author Biog.
http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/~kvander/authorbios.html
bibliography of biographies and autobiographies of writers - The Victorian Web
http://www.victorianweb.org/genre/autobioov.html
essays on autobiography as a genre, Victorian autobiography, fictional autobiography