EBSCO Publishing and H.W. Wilson are announcing the release of Wilson Biographies Illustrated, a full text biographical database now available via EBSCOhost^®. Wilson Biographies Illustrated is the most recent database to join the growing number of secondary databases available through EBSCOhost.

Wilson Biographies Illustrated contains more than 72,000 biographies and obituaries and more than 28,000 photographs of the subjects. This database contains full text from more than 100 full reference series of biographical reference books published by H.W. Wilson including monthly issues of Current Biography (1940 - forward), World Authors, Nobel Prize Winners, World Artists, World Film Directors, Junior Authors and Illustrators, World Musicians, Composers since 1900 and American Reformers.

Since 1898, the independent publisher H. W. Wilson Company has provided libraries with databases and reference materials produced with unmatched editorial integrity. The company also continues to be a leader of indexing and abstracting publications and reference materials available to researchers today including, the long popular Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature and Wilson's Biographies Illustrated.

Released: July 8, 2002