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MARCH 23, 2023

What's New: March 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

What's New: February 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

What's New: January 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

What's New: November 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

What's New: October 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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SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

What's New: September 2022

The September 2022 update features five new biographies, including the science fiction and fantasy writer Ursula K. Le Guin; actor Kirk Douglas; film critic Vincent Canby; and two prominent architects: the furniture designer Florence Knoll and Edmund Bacon of the Philadelphia City Planning Commission.

AUGUST 25, 2022

What's New: August 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.

JULY 28, 2022

What's New: July 2022

This update features five new biographies, including the “Godmother of Title IX” Bernice “Bunny” Sandler; Boston civil rights activist Florida Ruffin Ridley; scholar and suffragist Grace Raymond Hebard; Lola Maverick Lloyd, an activist who fused feminism and pacifism; and Julia Tarrant Barron, Alabama philanthropist and college founder.

JUNE 23, 2022

What's New: June 2022

This update features five new essays, including journalist and lawyer Nell Battle Lewis, who worked for the rights of women and workers but became a defender of racial segregation; Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen; actress Barbara Cook; Hall of Fame baseball pitcher Don Newcombe, and economist Jacob Marschak.

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