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This update features five new biographies, including Jan Howard, Roger Lun Yuen Lee, Minnie Miñoso, Tom Wolfe and Chuck Yeager.

This update features five new biographies including Sarah Bickford, Rudy Lozano, Vito Russo, Kevin Roche, and Ted Sizer.

This update features five new biographies including Lee Anthony Lacocca, John McCain, Lillian Ross, Ram Dass, and Tom Seaver.

This update features six new biographies including Herman Badillo, David Koch, Janet Malcolm, Porter Wagoner, Ernest Bormann, and Karen Thronson.

This update features five new biographies, including boxing icon and activist Muhammad Ali; Eagle of Delight, Otoe negotiator; John Singleton, Oscar-nominated director; “I Love New York” graphic designer Milton Glaser; and professional football palyer Gale Sayers.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.