An entire year of Current Biography—in one convenient clothbound volume!

Each year in December, the monthly issues of Current Biography are updated and arranged alphabetically in a single hardcover volume that contains the entire year’s biographies—about 220 in all.

The annual volume also includes a complete cumulation of the year’s obituaries, a cumulated index of articles and obituaries published in the current decade, and a classification of the subjects of articles by their professions. A sturdy library binding and acid-free paper make this investment last.

◘ 700 pp.
◘ January 2007
◘ Illustrated
◘ ISBN 978-0-8242-1074-8
◘ $180
◘ $215 (outside U.S. and Canada)  

Here’s a sampling of just some of the fascinating people covered in Current Biography Yearbook 2006 (complete list): 

Sports
Chamique Holdsclaw, Basketball player
Randy Moss, Football player
Tom Glavine, Baseball player
Jermaine Taylor, Boxer
Shani Davis, Speed skater
Bill Cowher, Head coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers
Tony Stewart, Race-car driver

Music & Arts
Marcus Miller, Jazz bassist
Jimmy Smits, Actor
David Hammons, Artist
Heath Ledger, Actor
Kanye West, Hip-hop artist
Nan Talese, Editor & publisher
Black Eyed Peas, Musical group

Politics, Society & Government
John G. Roberts, Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
Zalmay Khalilzad, U.S. Ambassador to Iraq
Michael V. Hauden, Director of the Central Intellingence Agency
Mitt Romney, Governor of Massachusetts
Jon Corzine, Governor of New Jersey
Tony Snow, White House Press Secretary

Business
Anderson Cooper, broadcast journalist
Brenda Barnes, CEO of the Sara Lee Corporation
Debra L. Lee, Chairman & CEO of Black Entertainment Television
James A. Bell, CFO of Boeing Corporation
Terry Semel, Chairman & CEO of Yahoo!
Rex W. Tillerson, CEO & Chairman of ExxonMobil Corporation

Science
Shannon Lee Dawdy, Archaeologist, anthropologist, and historian
Elizabeth Spelke, Psychologist
Herman A. Taylor, Cardiologist
Lisa Randall, Theoretical physicist
Milfod Wolpoff, Paleoanthropologist
Steven Squyres, Director of the Mars Exploration Rover Mission

Also of Interest

Current Biography
Monthly Magazine
Published monthly except in December (11 issues per year), this classic magazine presents from 18 to 20 profiles per issue.

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 is Also Available Online!

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.