Send readers here for accurate, up-to-date biographies of the men and women who make today’s headlines and tomorrow’s history. Renowned since 1940 as a trusted source of timely information.
 

Current Biography offers:

• 11 issues per year—a monthly publication schedule that allows Current Biography to keep up with the day’s most talked-about personalities.

• 16 to 20 profiles per issue,
  representing a wide range of professions.

• Obituaries, whenever possible,
  of figures profiled in previous issues.

• A cumulative index in each issue, listing all those profiled in the current volume year.

An invaluable source for researchers, teachers, students, and librarians, Current Biography draws information from newspaper and magazine articles, books, the Internet, and occasionally personal interviews or questionnaires completed by the subjects. This resource presents biographical information in a lively style that makes for entertaining as well as informative reading.

An annual hardcover cumulation of all the biographies published in the 11 monthly issues—about 220 profiles.
 

Current Biography Cumulated Index: 1940-2005
Your guide to 66 years' worth of biographies: indexes all the profiles and obituaries published from 1940 through 2005 in a single alphabet.

Current Biography Illustrated
All the in-depth coverage of the Current Biography monthly, in a searchable database! More than 25,000 articles on figures 1940 to the present, plus over 20,000 photos.

Current Biography 1940–Present
Offers convenient online searching of more than 25,000 profiles and obituaries.