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More New Biographies Now Available in the Library

Need a biography to help supplement or add to your research? HSP has a large selection of biographies that tell the stories of folks, historical and contemporary, from across the world. Below is a sampling of some biographies that were recently cataloged. Click on the links for more information from our online catalog Discover.


John Kendig Barr by Mary Alice Burchfield

Fa 929.2 B2681b 1984


The Worst President by Garry Boulard

E 437 .B68 2015


Saint John Neumann: HIs Writings and Spirituality by Richard Boever

BX 4700 .N4 B64 2010


Benjamin Franklin: A Man of Many Talents by Kathryn Hoffman Satterfield

E 302.5 .F8 B4525 2005


Exploring Lincoln edited by Harold Holzer, Craig L. Symonds, and Frank J. Williams

E 457 .E96 2015


The Essential Elias Hicks by Paul Buckley

BX 7752 .H59 A25 2013


Two Boys by Robert Zausner

KF 226 .Z38 2009


John Forbes by John Oliphant

DA 67.1 .F67 O54 2015


Fortune’s Fool: The Life of John Wilkes Booth by Terry Alford

E 457.5 .A44 2015


Enduring Truths: Sojourner's Shadows and Substance by Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby

E 185.97 .T8 G75 2015