Two New Yearbooks for Current Biography Family of References
New York, New York, March 1, 2005
Two new annuals have been published in the Current Biography family
of references, H.W. Wilson today announced, featuring between them
almost 400 in-depth profiles of people prominent in 2004.
Current
Biography Yearbook 2004 and
Current Biography International
Yearbook 2004 offer objective, well-documented biographical
profiles of living leaders in a wide range of fields of human
accomplishment. Current Biography Yearbook 2004 delivers the
complete content of all 2004 issues of the popular Current
Biography monthly magazine, with updated information. Current
Biography International Yearbook 2004 focuses exclusively on
people making history and headlines outside the U.S., with original
profiles written specifically for this resource, none of them
previously published in the monthly issues of Current Biography
or in the regular Current Biography yearbooks.
Current Biography Yearbook 2004 features
188 profiles in total—rich, engaging exploration of the lives of
such notables as Jon Stewart, comedian and host of The
Daily Show; choreographer Christopher Wheeldon;
neurobiologist and gerontologist Caleb E. Rinch; California
governor Arnold Schwarzenegger; Sean Patrick O'Malley,
Archbishop of Boston; Lonnie Thompson, glaciologist; Lynne
Cox, long-distance ocean swimmer; country musician Junior
Brown; John A. Thain, CEO of the NY Stock Exchange;
Joan Blades and Wes Boyd, founders of MoveOn; actress
Charlize Theron, and many others. The volume also features a
60-page section of obituaries, a list of profiles by profession, and
an index to profiles in the Current Biography monthly back to
2001.
Current Biography International Yearbook 2004
features 199 profiles, among them Iraqi religious leader Ali al-Sistani;
Honduran peasant activist Elvia Alvarado; Russian tycoon
Roman Abramovich; British actor Tom Baker; Amadou
Mahtar Ba, president of AllAfrica Global Media; Carlos Ghosn,
president and CEO of Nissan Motor Company; Nigerian lawyer Hauwa
Ibrahim; Canadian hockey player Jarome Iginla; Maori
playwright Hone Kouka; Dutch astronaut André Kuipers;
Mexican filmmaker Guillermo del Toro, and many others. The
volume also features lists of profiles classified by profession and
by country, as well as an index of profiles from this volume and the
2002 and 2003 editions.
The Current Biography family of references
also includes the WilsonWeb database Current Biography
Illustrated, which features more than 25,000 articles and
obituaries.
Current Biography has been described as
"the most reliable source for biographical information on a wide
range of current celebrities" by American Studies International.
WilsonWeb's Current Biography Illustrated also holds the
honor of being named a Library Journal Best Reference Source.
Review copies of Current Biography Yearbook
2004 and Current Biography International Yearbook 2004
are available to members of the working press.
Current Biography Yearbook 2004
695 pages • Photographs • February 2005 • 0-8242-1044-1 • $140 ($165
outside U.S. & Canada)
Current Biography International Yearbook 2004
614 pages • Photographs • February 2005 • 0-8242-1045-X • $140 ($165
outside U.S. & Canada)
