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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 Maragret 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.

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. 

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.

The March 2024 update of the American National Biography adds 25 images from the National Portrait Gallery at the Smithsonian Institution.

The February update of the American National Biography features four new essays, including Christopher Reeve, Superman actor and activist for people with spinal cord injuries; White House press corps journalist Helen Thomas; Alice Rivlin, economist who served as vice chair of the Federal Reserve and director of the Office of Management and Budget; and S. Willard Saxton, printmaker, Civil War veteran, and federal government employee.