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MARCH 23, 2023
This update features five new essays, including journalist Cokie Roberts; third-party presidential candidate H. Ross Perot; actor, comedian, and filmmaker Carl Reiner; radio broadcaster and journalist Earl Godwin; and actor Paul Henreid.
FEBRUARY 23, 2023
The February update of the American National Biography features five new essays, including Robert Indiana, the artist behind the LOVE image; R&B singer Luther Vandross; art critic John Edwin Canaday; Al Swearingen, the violent brothel owner from Deadwood, South Dakota; and Gladys Heldman, tennis player, founder of World Tennis magazine, and organizer of the Virginia Slims Circuit women’s tennis tour.
JANUARY 26, 2023
The January update of the American National Biography features five new essays, including actor, playwright, director, and civil rights activist Ossie Davis; New York magazine founder Clay Felker Schuette; and baseball players Bob Gibson, Joe Morgan, and Al Kaline.
NOVEMBER 24, 2022
The November update of the American National Biography features five new essays, including food writer and television star Anthony Bourdain; Roberta Johnson Dunbar, Rhode Island clubwoman and civil rights activist; long-time 60 Minutes reporter Morley Safer; crime novelist Mickey Spillane; Sidney Maurice Levyson, disability activist and writer (under the name Stanley Stein) who advocated on behalf of people suffering from Hansen’s disease.
OCTOBER 27, 2022
The October update of the American National Biography features four new essays, including baseball Hall of Famer Hank Aaron; Louise Dickinson Rich, writer of the best-selling 1942 memoir We Took to the Woods; Alfred Cowles, who shaped the modern study of economics; and Indiana industrialist and philanthropist J. Miller Irwin.
OCTOBER 19, 2022
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AUGUST 25, 2022
This update features four new biographies, including the extraordinarily influential evangelist Billy Graham; prolific journalist and sportswriter John Lardner; Olivia de Havilland, an Academy Award-winning actress who reshaped the Hollywood system by insisting on choosing her own parts; and poet and scholar Daniel Hoffman.
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