Provides information on authors who have written children's books.  It also gives biographical information on illustrators of children's books.  Most of the authors are from English-speaking countries, i.e., Canada, the United States, England, etc.  Categories of writing covered by Something About the Author include picture books, humor, folk and fairy tales, animal stories, mystery and adventure, science fiction, poetry and nonsense verse, drama, biography, and nonfiction.

Other helpful biographical sources include:

            Bain, R. & Flora, J. M.  (Eds.)  (1979).  Southern writers: a biographical dictionary.  Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press.

            Collier, L. & Nakamura, J.  (Eds.)  (1992).  Major authors and illustrators for children and young adults.  Detroit: Gale Research, Inc.

            Kirkpatrick, D. L.  (Ed.)  (1989).  Twentieth-century children's writers.  (3^rd ed.).  Chicago:  St. James Press.

            Kunitz, Stanley J.  (1952).  British authors before 1800.  (5^th ed.).  New York: H. W. Wilson.

            Kunitz, Stanley J.  (1936).  British authors of the nineteenth century.  New York: H. W. Wilson.

            Murphy, Rosalie.  (1975).  Contemporary poets of the English language.  New York: St. Martin's Press.

Other ways to locate biographical information include:

• Using Voyager to locate full-length biographies about major figures.  Books about a person are found by searching the name as a keyword or subject heading.
  
  

• Looking in Voyager under your subject headings with the terms "biography" and "directories" subheadings.
  
  

• Looking in general or special encyclopedias.
  
  

• Using periodical or newspaper indexes to locate obituaries.