This crowd‑sourced portal catalogs concise biographies of notable individuals—scientists, activists, artists, and more—providing essential life dates, career highlights, and thematic subpages (e.g., doctors, humanitarians) alongside a companion blog of essays on historical milestones(cross-category)

A & E Networks’ flagship site, Biography.com offers thousands of detailed profiles, video documentaries, and curated lists of historical and contemporary figures—from heads of state to cultural icons—making it a go‑to online reference for life stories and memoir excerpts.(cross-category)

Founded in 1993, Creative Nonfiction is the world’s first literary magazine devoted exclusively to narrative nonfiction—featuring in‑depth memoir chapters, biographical essays, and reportage that explore real lives with the craft and pacing of fiction(cross-category)

A partnership of academic and research institutions offering a collaborative repository of millions of digitized titles—books, journals, government documents—for full-text searching and preservation.(cross-category)

Provides a vast collection of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts for educational use. It covers a wide range of historical periods and subjects, offering primary source materials.(cross-category)

A visually driven online literary magazine devoted to personal essays and book‑length memoir excerpts, Memoir Magazine publishes creative nonfiction paired with original artwork and photography, hosts an annual Memoir Prize for emerging writers, and maintains interviews and craft features for life‑writers(cross-category)