MSU Libraries offers many resources, both online and in print, to help you read and learn about this year’s Freshman Reading Experience title. For more information about the Freshman Reading Experience, see the MSU FRE website.
Using Library Resources:
On the Library’s Databases A-Z Page
Biography Reference Bank – Search her name to retrieve biographies, reviews, & other articles
Academic Search Premier – Search her name, and then use tabs to retrieve short Magazine articles or longer research Academic Journal articles on her life and work.
Academic Search Premier – Search the title of her book to retrieve reviews or longer Academic Journal articles on this specific title.
RACERtrac
Type in her name (last name first) and “find results in” author – to retrieve books she has written
Type in her name (last name first) and “find results in” subject – to retrieve books about her
WorldCat
Follow the same search strategy as in RACERtrac to locate materials not in the MSU library. Use the yellow 
button to request a copy through interlibrary loan.
Online Biographies
- Emory University
- Las Mujeres
- Gale Publications
- University of Minnesota
- State Department, Writers on America
Online Interviews
- With Robert Birnbaum
- Ink Q&A
- Meet the Writers (Flash audio)
- Penguin Reading Guides (specifically on two other books):
- In the Time of the Butterflies
- In the Name of Salome
- Minnesota Public Radio (with audio available)
Online Comprehensive sites
On Something to Declare