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The American National Biography (ANB) is a 24-volume biographical encyclopedia set that contains about 17,400 entries [1] and 20 million words, [2] first published in 1999 by Oxford University Press under the auspices of the American Council of Learned Societies.
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The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography is a multi-volume collection of biographical articles and portraits of Americans, published since the 1890s. [1] The primary method of data collection was by sending questionnaires to subjects or their relatives. [1] It has over 60,000 entries, in 63 volumes. [2] The entries are not credited. [1]
Dictionary of American biography. Scribner, 1928–1996. [1] American Council of Learned Societies. American national biography online. Oxford University Press, 2000-. Available online here. [1] [9] Ash, Lee, Bernhard A. Uhlendorf, Council of National Library Associations. A biographical directory of librarians in the United States and Canada.
African American National Biography Project; American Council of Learned Societies, Dictionary of American Biography, New York: Scribner. ISBN 0-684-80631-2. OCLC 4171403. American National Biography; Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography; Asimov, Isaac, Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology.
African American Architects: A Biographical Dictionary, 1865–1945; African American National Biography Project; The Afro-American Press and Its Editors; American Authors and Books; American Men and Women of Science; American National Biography; Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography
The Edwin Arlington Robinson House in Gardiner, Maine. Robinson was born in Head Tide, Maine, on December 22, 1869. [2] His parents were Edward and Mary (née Palmer). They had wanted a girl, and did not name him until he was six months old, when they visited a holiday resort—at which point other vacationers decided that he should have a name, and selected the name "Edwin" from a hat ...
Macmillan, which had acquired Scribner's, decided to publish its own project supplementing the original Dictionary of American Biography, and called it The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives (SEAL), with Kenneth T. Jackson (who had been editor-in-chief of the DAB from 1990 to 1996) as the editor-in-chief. [6]