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The April 2025 update of the American National Biography features thirteen new articles.

The March 2025 update of the American National Biography update features 31 revised essays and 44 retrospective images.

The February update of the American National Biography features seven new essays, including writer Paule Marshall; singer and actress Della Reese; film director Stanley Donen; U. S. Senator Richard Lugar; poet W. S. Merwin; playwright Terrence McNally; and actress Joan Bennett.

The January update of the American National Biography features six new essays, including country music singer and songwriter Loretta Lynn; labor activist Dorothy Bolden; actress Jane Powell; priest and biblical scholar Raymond E. Brown; aviation pioneer John Joseph Montgomery; and visual artist Nancy Spero.

The November update of the American National Biography features six new essays, including novelist Harper Lee; televangelist Tammy Faye Messner; musical comedy star Betty Garrett; playwright Clay Greene; and sports broadcasters John Madden and Vin Scully.

The October update of the American National Biography features six new essays, including Margaret Burroughs, artist, educator, and co-founder of the DuSable Museum; Boston mob leader and fugitive James “Whitey” Bulger; socialite, fashion designer, and entrepreneur Gloria Vanderbilt; speechwriter and presidential advisor Richard N. Goodwin; and astrologers Carroll Righter and Evangeline Adams.

The ANB September 2024 update features 32 revised and updated essays and 32 retrospective images.

This update features five new biographies, including model and actress Farrah Fawcett; Oscar-winning special effects animator Ray Harryhausen; Hollywood makeup artist Jack Pierce; linguist Lorenzo Dow Turner; and film director and producer Mark Sandrich.

This update features five new biographies, including Afong Moy, the first recognized Chinese woman in the United States; Los Angeles food writer Jonathan Gold; architectural photographer Ezra Stoller; Technicolor movie star Rhonda Fleming; and union activist, suffragist, and communist leader Juliet Stuart Poyntz.

This update features five new essays, including historian and activist Howard Zinn, model Anna Nicole Smith, theatre critic Claudia Cassidy, and painters Maynard Dixon and Doris Lee.