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=Book Reviews and Author Biography Sites=

Book Reviews

 * Check out our [|Thumbnail Book Review Pathfinder]
 * Visit the Editorial Reviews (not customer reviews!) [|Amazon book search] or [|Barnes & Noble.com]
 * [|New York Times Books] (after 1981) (Sign up for a free subscription or use the library user name: sthslib password: 12345)
 * __ [|Historical Newspapers] __ will lead you to //New York Times Reviews// before 2001. (Click on the "review" box. Unclick the other boxes.)
 * [|JSTOR] (advanced search) Click on "review."
 * [|Student Research Center] (GaleNet)
 * [|eLibrary]
 * [|Expanded Academic ASAP]
 * visit other databases on our Catalogs and Databases page

Reviews for books written before the early 90s:

 * //**Book Review Digest**// in the stacks by publication year (ask Mrs. V. to help you find them)

Literary criticism for truly notable books may be found at these sites

 * ======Gale's [|Literature Resource Center][|,] under GaleNet in Catalogs and Databases ======
 * LitCrit Pathfinder

Author Biography Sites

 * Contemporary Authors
 * [|Biography Resource Center]
 * [|Amazon book search] or [|Barnes & Noble.com]
 * Check to see if your author has a website!
 * Search Google using "quotation marks" around the author's name, words like //biography, profile, resume,// etc., and other key words you find in the author blurb on the book. If they teach at a university, visit the appropriate faculty page at the university.
 * [|AllReaders.com]
 * [|BookBrowse]
 * [|Academy of Achievement](for very famous)