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.

◘ 730 pp.
◘ January 2008
◘ Illustrated
◘ ISBN 978-0-8242-1084-7
◘ $180
◘ $215 (outside U.S. and Canada)  

Here’s a sampling of just some of the fascinating people covered in Current Biography Yearbook 2007 (complete list): 

Sports

• Ronnie Coleman, Bodybuilder

• Tony Dungy, Football coach

• Dale Earnhardt Jr., Race-car driver

• Ryan Howard, Baseball player

• Diana Taurasi, Basketball player

• Lesley Visser, Sportscaster

Music & Arts

• Kyung-Wha Chung, Violinist

• The Decemberists, Music Group

• Angela Hewitt, Classical Pianist

• John Legend, Singer, songwriter, and pianist

• Rick Rubin, Music producer

• Regina Spektor, Singer and songwriter

Politics, Society & Government

• David S. Addington, Lawyer and vice-presidential aide

• William Blum, Writer and political dissident

• Cory Booker, Mayor of Newark, New Jersey

• Ryan Crocker, U.S. ambassador to Iraq

• Tom Lantos, U.S representative from California

• Cindy Sheehan, Antiwar activist and writer

Business

• Ursula M. Burns, President of Xerox

• Evelyn Y. Davis, Activist for shareholder’s rights

• Jim Lanzone, CEO of Ask.com

• Bernie Marcus, Co-founder of Home Depot

• James D. Sinegal, President and CEO of Costco

• Gerald L. Storch, Chairman and CEO of Toys “R” Us

Science

• Winston A. Anderson, Cell biologist and cancer researcher

• Antonio R. Damasio, Neurobiologist

• Alison Gopnik, Psychologist

• Neil Shubin, Evolutionary biologist

• Terence Tao, Mathematician

• Ian Tattersall, Paleoanthropologist

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.