biography

Includes 500 biographies of men and women who have shaped our cultural views and perceptions and analyzes their contributions to the 20th century.

Presents the stories behind various eponyms and the name words they inspired. Examples are frisbee, shrapnel, dunce, boycott, and diddle.

Biographies of significant medieval men and women focus on their attitudes, values, and actions.

Through essays and photographs of famous women writers discusses the most influential women of the twentieth century, including Anne Frank, Zora Neale Hurston, Georgia O'Keefe, and Marilyn Monroe.

Contains twenty articles that provide accounts of notable people and events that changed the course of world history, from Confucius and his thought c. 500 B.C., to Martin Luther King Jr.'s marches for civil rights in 1965.

A cumulative index to the first sixty-six volumes of "Current Biography," including monthly issues and yearbooks covering the years from 1940 through 2005; arranged alphabetically by last name.

Profiles one hundred twentieth-century men and women from all walks of life whose accomplishments are considered heroic.

Olga, the oldest daughter of the last Russian Tsar, Nicolas II, kept a diary from the time she was ten, in 1905, until March 1917, when her father abdicated from the Russian throne. Olga's diaries are held at the State Archives of the Russian Federation in Moscow. Her diaries from the World War I era have never been translated until this volume.