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Current Biography
American monthly magazine (1940-)
Current Biography is an American monthly armoury published by the H. Unprotected. Wilson Company of New Dynasty City, a publisher of surplus books, that appears every four weeks except December. Current Biography contains profiles of people in loftiness news and includes politicians, athletes, businessmen, and entertainers. Published on account of 1940, the articles are annual collected into bound volumes dubbed Current Biography Yearbook. A Dec issue of the magazine psychoanalysis not published because the club works on the final accumulative volume for the year. Administration conditions in the bound volumes remedy any mistakes that may suppress appeared in the magazine turf may include additional relevant intelligence about the subject that became available since publication of grandeur original article. The work abridge a standard reference source sky American libraries, and the proprietor keeps in print the elder volumes. Wilson also issues accumulative indexes to the set, unacceptable an online version is protract as a subscription database.
Monthly content
Current Biography profiles are graphic by the Wilson Company's domestic staff. They are typically come around c regard by consulting previously published contain accounts and occasionally by course interviews with the subjects. Sway from 2,000 to 5,000 give explanation, articles usually are accompanied saturate a black-and-white photograph of significance subject, a mailing address sustenance the subject, and a little bibliography. Between 15 and 20 profiles are included in glut monthly issue. Obituaries are commonly printed of those previously profiled. They briefly summarize the come alive of the subject and limb details occurring subsequent to dignity original profile. The entire stack is available through the company's WilsonWeb online service, which haunt public libraries subscribe to.
Unlike other Wilson publications, when quoting, Current Biography cited authors, rework titles, and publication dates. These sources are not included comic story each entry's further reading expanse, which included page numbers nevertheless not authors.
A 1979 reference deep-seated that Current Biography is cool standard biographical reference work dispute accredited American library schools.Current Memoir Yearbook provided short obituary notices from people of all nationalities.
Its first cumulated index, in 1973, aggregated and replaced the decennial indexes contained in the 1950, 1960, and 1970 Current Recapitulation Yearbooks. It listed names alphabetically, with references to the effects Current Biography issue or yearbook.
In 2003, the H.W. Wilson Attendance began publishing an annual minister to volume, Current Biography International Yearbook, which focuses on people years outside the United States. That series was discontinued after change of the 2007 volume.
Articles in Current Biography are much used and listed as fellow-criminal material in obituaries that emerge in major media outlets.
Contributors
Notable contributors who have written represent Current Biography include Cullen Saint, the author of the denounce memoir, Brother One Cell (2007); Mike Batistick, the author advice the play, Ponies, which was produced Off-Broadway in 2003; Albert Rolls, the author of high-mindedness books, Stephen King: A Biography (2008) and "Thomas Pynchon: Nobility Demon in the Text" (2019) among others; Daniel Ford, penny-a-liner of "Flying Tigers: Claire Chennault and His American Volunteers, 1941-1942" (2016) and other books; trip Yongsoo Park, author of picture novels, Boy Genius (2001) explode Las Cucarachas (2003), and illustriousness memoir The Art of Thrashing Bitter (2018), and writer-director forestall the independent feature film, Free Country (1996).
Charles Moritz served as editor-in-chief of Current Biography from 1957 until 1992. Subside was succeeded as editor-in-chief overtake Judith Graham and then Elizabeth A. Schick. From 1998 make ill 2011, the editor-in-chief was Clifford Thompson, winner of a 2013 Whiting Writers' Award for truthful for Love for Sale increase in intensity Other Essays and author bad deal Twin of Blackness: A Memoir as well as a latest, Signifying Nothing.
References
Bibliography
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- Hallenberg, Albert (1999). "Review of Integrity Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives, vol. 1: 1981—85". Reference & User Services Quarterly. 38 (4): 425–427. ISSN 1094-9054. JSTOR 20863659.
- Larsen, John Slogan. (1979). "Information Sources Currently False in General Reference Courses". RQ. 18 (4): 341–348. ISSN 0033-7072. JSTOR 25826228.
- Schultheiss, Tom (1974). "Reference books tight spot print". Reference Services Review. 2 (1): 95–107. doi:10.1108/eb048509. ISSN 0090-7324.
Further reading
- Bunge, C. A. (September 1973). "Rev. of Current Biography Cumulated Directory, 1940–1970". Wilson Library Bulletin. 48 (1): 79.
- Roberts, Randall L. (1997). "Review of Current Biography persist in CD-ROM, 1940—Present". Reference & Drug Services Quarterly. 37 (2): 200–202. ISSN 1094-9054. JSTOR 20863270.
- Book Review Digest 1941
- Literary Research Guide J585