current biography yearbook

  PURPOSE:
• "Providing the reference librarian or any researcher with concise,
  accurate, objective, and well-documented biographical articles
  about living leaders in all fields of human accomplishment the world
  over."
  
• "Annual emphasis is on around 200 international personalities,
  primarily those, who in some way influenced American scene."
  
• "Subjects are given the opportunity to check the copy before it
  is published and approve the photograph."

  AUTHORITY:
• H. W. Wilson Press is a reputable publisher of reference works

  ARRANGEMENT:
• biography is in essay form
  
• usually includes a picture
  
• provides references
  
• updates past entries with an obituary reference
  
• there are many cumulative indexes within the set

  REFERENCE QUESTIONS:
• Maria Shriver wrote the book: Ten Things I Wish I'd Known-- Before I
  Went Out into the Real World (the story of her life). Although having rich
  parents, Maria was determined to make it on her own merits in life.
  Please locate her picture AND skim her biography. It's worth it.

• Find the obituary of Leo Castelli.

• The only thing you know is that she is a musician, and that she was born
  in 1895. A short biography is in the 1979 yearbook.

• Madelin Korbel Albright was our Secretary of State during the Clinton
  administration. In the 1995 yearbook she is listed with three other
  individuals under which subject?

  
  

• answers