Description: Wilson Biographies Plus contains more than 111,000 biographies and obituaries and more than 32,000 photographs of the subjects. Many of the biographies are enhanced with full text, abstracts, and citations from H. W. Wilson databases. Wilson Biographies Plus contains the full text of the articles from more than 100 volumes of biographical reference books published by H. W. Wilson, including all the articles from all volumes of Current Biography, the World Author Series, Nobel Prize Winners, World Artists, World Film Directors, American Reformers, and numerous biographical books on musicians and composers from throughout history. In addition, Wilson Biographies Plus includes over 65,000 profiles licensed from a number of respected reference publishers, including Chambers Harrap, Fitzroy Dearborn, Garland Publishing, Grove's Dictionaries Inc. & Macmillan UK, Harvard University Press, Helicon, and Oryx.

The biographies are searchable by name, profession, title, place of origin, gender, race/ethnicity, titles of works, date of birth, date of death, keyword, and presence of images.