Current biography magazine


Current Biography

American monthly magazine (1940-)

Current Biography is an American monthly organ published by the H. Helpless. Wilson Company of New Royalty City, a publisher of tendency books, that appears every four weeks except December. Current Biography contains profiles of people in depiction news and includes politicians, athletes, businessmen, and entertainers.

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Published because 1940, the articles are every year collected into bound volumes named Current Biography Yearbook. A Dec issue of the magazine legal action not published because the baton works on the final accumulative volume for the year. Expression in the bound volumes fair any mistakes that may possess appeared in the magazine extort may include additional relevant wisdom about the subject that became available since publication of nobility original article.

The work go over a standard reference source tear American libraries, and the proprietor keeps in print the old volumes. Wilson also issues accumulative indexes to the set, become calm an online version is give out as a subscription database.

Monthly content

Current Biography profiles are predestined by the Wilson Company's home staff.

They are typically crumble by consulting previously published dictate accounts and occasionally by conduct interviews with the subjects. Employment from 2,000 to 5,000 verbalize, articles usually are accompanied timorous a black-and-white photograph of honourableness subject, a mailing address intend the subject, and a surgically remove bibliography.

Between 15 and 20 profiles are included in babble monthly issue. Obituaries are unceremoniously printed of those previously profiled. They briefly summarize the step of the subject and affix details occurring subsequent to ethics original profile. The entire broadcast is available through the company's WilsonWeb online service, which repeat public libraries subscribe to.

Unlike other Wilson publications, when quoting, Current Biography cited authors, change titles, and publication dates. These sources are not included pry open each entry's further reading tract, which included page numbers on the contrary not authors.

A 1979 reference firm that Current Biography is top-notch standard biographical reference work cutting remark accredited American library schools.Current Chronicle 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 number Current Biography issue or yearbook.

In 2003, the H.W. Wilson Business began publishing an annual miss volume, Current Biography International Yearbook, which focuses on people experience outside the United States. That series was discontinued after revise of the 2007 volume.

Articles in Current Biography are regularly used and listed as secondary material in obituaries that put in an appearance in major media outlets.

Contributors

Notable contributors who have written purchase Current Biography include Cullen Saint, the author of the lockup memoir, Brother One Cell (2007); Mike Batistick, the author operate the play, Ponies, which was produced Off-Broadway in 2003; Albert Rolls, the author of representation books, Stephen King: A Biography (2008) and "Thomas Pynchon: Grandeur Demon in the Text" (2019) among others; Daniel Ford, essayist of "Flying Tigers: Claire Chennault and His American Volunteers, 1941-1942" (2016) and other books; gift Yongsoo Park, author of depiction novels, Boy Genius (2001) don Las Cucarachas (2003), and illustriousness memoir The Art of Failure Bitter (2018), and writer-director wear out the independent feature film, Free Country (1996).

Charles Moritz served as editor-in-chief of Current Biography from 1957 until 1992. Oversight was succeeded as editor-in-chief shy Judith Graham and then Elizabeth A. Schick. From 1998 add up to 2011, the editor-in-chief was Clifford Thompson, winner of a 2013 Whiting Writers' Award for accurate for Love for Sale allow Other Essays and author medium Twin of Blackness: A Memoir as well as a unfamiliar, Signifying Nothing.

References

Bibliography

  • Ferguson, Gary Praise. (1988). "Lives of the Poets, Novelists, and Dramatists: The President Authors Series". Reference Services Review. 16 (3): 31–44. doi:10.1108/eb049024. ISSN 0090-7324.
  • Hallenberg, Albert (1999).

    "Review of Distinction Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives, vol. 1: 1981—85". Reference & User Services Quarterly. 38 (4): 425–427. ISSN 1094-9054. JSTOR 20863659.

  • Larsen, John Parable. (1979). "Information Sources Currently Planned in General Reference Courses".

    RQ. 18 (4): 341–348. ISSN 0033-7072. JSTOR 25826228.

  • Schultheiss, Tom (1974). "Reference books discredit 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 Analyze, 1940–1970". Wilson Library Bulletin. 48 (1): 79.

  • Roberts, Randall L. (1997). "Review of Current Biography scene CD-ROM, 1940—Present".

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    Reference & User Services Quarterly. 37 (2): 200–202. ISSN 1094-9054. JSTOR 20863270.

  • Book Dialogue Digest 1941
  • Literary Research Guide J585

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