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APRIL 21, 2025

What’s New: April 2025

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

MARCH 27, 2025

What’s New: March 2025

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

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

What’s New: February 2025

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.

JANUARY 23, 2025

What’s New: January 2025

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.

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

What’s New: November 2024

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.

OCTOBER 24, 2024

What’s new: October 2024

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.

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

What’s New: September 2024

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

AUGUST 21, 2024

What’s New: August 2024

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.

JULY 25, 2024

What’s new: July 2024

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.

JUNE 27, 2024

What’s New: June 2024

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.

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