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JANUARY 23, 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
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
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
The ANB September 2024 update features 32 revised and updated essays and 32 retrospective images.
AUGUST 21, 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
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
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.
MAY 23, 2024
This update features five new biographies including Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins; Boston civil rights activist Ruth Batson; New York City journalist and writer Pete Hamill; and influential (and humorous) newspaper columnists Molly Ivins and Russell Baker.
APRIL 25, 2024
This update features five new biographies, including the “Queen of Soul” Aretha Franklin; management consultant, author, and professor Peter Drucker; pioneering African American psychologist Keturah Whitehurst; University of Pennsylvania philosopher William T. V. Fontaine; and folk singer and labor activist Aunt Molly Jackson.
MARCH 28, 2024
The March 2024 update of the American National Biography adds 25 images from the National Portrait Gallery at the Smithsonian Institution.
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