Dictionaries of Biography (Who's Who)

Who's Who 2025 is the 177th edition of the world's longest established and most comprehensive general reference book, brought right up to date fo...

Debates about the significance of anti-semitism in the lives and work of intellectual figures

This is the third of a three-volume set on medieval scholarship that presents original biographical essays on scholars whose work has shaped mediev...

This title was first published 2003. In the twentieth century, Britain was rich in artistic achievement, especially in sculpture. Just some of thos...

The International Who's Who in Popular Music 2023 gives biographical information and contact details for some of the most talented and influential ...

The INTERNATIONAL WHO’S WHO IN CLASSICAL MUSIC 2025 provides an invaluable and practical source of biographical information on a variety of notable...

From High Noon to Unforgiven, the "A" Western represents the pinnacle of Western filmmaking. More intellectual, ambitious, and time-consuming th...

This biographical dictionary of some 3,000 photographers (and workers in related trades), active in a vast area of North America before 1866, is ba...

The names of ancient Egyptian kings such as Cheops, Akhenaten, and Ramesses II have become part of popular culture. Yet, for all the tombs and stat...

Who are the most important men and women whose notions and theories have changed the world? When Isaac Newton claimed that he only saw further beca...

This authoritative and now classic work of reference on the history of British architecture contains biographical information on some 2,000 archite...

Claimants of paranormal abilities have always attracted controversy and fascination, and sometimes rigorous study by scientists. Charles Bailey,...

Behind the familiar names of the military and political leaders whose names we all know--Lincoln, Davis, Lee, Grant, Sherman, and Jackson, are the ...

Thornton Wilder is one of America’s greatest writers, the only author to win Pulitzer Prizes in two different categories—one in fiction and two in ...

This reference book, containing the biographies of more than 1,100 notable British women from Boudicca to Barbara Castle, is an absorbing record of...

The 13th edition of the International Who's Who in Poetry is a unique and comprehensive guide to the leading lights and freshest talent in poetry t...

Since 1619, when Africans first came ashore in the swampy Chesapeake region of Virginia, there have been many individuals whose achievements or str...

Spanning the period from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first centuries, The Biographical Dictionary of Social and Cultural Anthropology c...

The silent film era featured some of the most revered names of on-screen comic performance, from Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton to Harold Lloyd,...

Edward Carpenter: In Appreciation, first published in 1931, presents a collection of tributes to and reminiscences about the renowned socialist poe...

The bare events of Dostoevsky’s life – his father murdered by peasants, his own ordeal before a firing squad, then exile in Siberia, his epilepsy, ...

This reference work contains entries on 1,560 women who have excelled in their careers to become well-known leaders in politics, business, educa...

This biographical dictionary provides information on 322 men and women who have made or are making significant contributions in the field of ant...