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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.
American National Biography The Dictionary of American Biography ( DAB ) was a multi-volume dictionary published in New York City by Charles Scribner's Sons under the auspices of the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS).
A Dictionary of Edwardian Biography. Reprint. Edinburgh. 1983 onwards. 36 vols. [10] Dictionary of National Biography. Dictionary of Welsh Biography. Eccleshall, Robert & Graham Walker, eds, Biographical Dictionary of British Prime Ministers. Ewan, Reynolds, Innes, Pipes, Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women.
The Dictionary of National Biography (DNB) is a standard work of reference on notable figures from British history, published since 1885. The updated Oxford Dictionary of National Biography ( ODNB ) was published on 23 September 2004 in 60 volumes and online, with 50,113 biographical articles covering 54,922 lives.
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]
Some 700 writers were contributors to the Dictionary of National Biography, in its first edition. Individual contributions vary from one biography, for example William Perkins, to 281 by Leslie Stephen, who was also editor of many volumes. They are listed below, in order of the name or initials they contributed under.
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 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