Dictionaries of Biography (Who's Who)

Featured in Wisden Cricket Monthly, The Cricket Paper, The Cricketer and on wisden.com. The 43rd edition tells you all you need to know about ever...

The International Who's Who in Popular Music 2020 gives biographical information and contact details for some of the most talented and influential ...

The Hammer studio is best known for its horror film output from the mid-1950s through the 1970s. This book provides facts about the hundreds of act...

Connecting the classical world and the Renaissance, the Middle Ages stand alone as a remarkable period for religion, politics, science and art. Thi...

This fascinating dictionary gives concise accounts of every officially recognized pope in history, from St Peter to Pope Benedict XVI, as well as a...

When you need to source accurate information on the past history, achievements and current activities of leading world figures, from heads of state...

This book features biographies of 32 of the most notable figures in Latin American history. To the 23 individuals from the first edition, consis...

When you need to source accurate information on the past history, achievements and current activities of leading world figures, from heads of state...

From forehands to fashions, this book covers the careers of 35 champions who made significant contributions to the sport both on and off the cou...

This is a book about baseball players who performed in the major leagues before the age of 21. For years the dream of many boys has been to ente...

Featured in this book are the Civil War Union army colonels who commanded regiments from Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin. This is the sixth...

The New Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women is a fully revised and extended edition of a highly regarded reference work that illuminates the ...

Indiana boasts a rich baseball tradition, with 10 native sons enshrined in Cooperstown. This biographical dictionary provides a close look at th...

This book is a biographical A to Z guide to several hundred unheralded stunt performers who created some of the cinema's greatest action scenes wit...

Pearl White, William Duncan, William Desmond, Ben Wilson, Walter Miller, Francis Ford, Charles Hutchinson, Jack Dougherty, and Eddie Polo are ju...

The past quarter-century has seen a number of biographies and anthologies on women travelers but to date there has been little comprehensive ref...

Earl Weaver put his best defensive players on the field early in the game rather than make late-inning defensive replacements, and he didn't lik...

In its third edition, this massive reference work lists the final resting places of more than 14,000 people from a wide range of fields, includi...

Throughout the course of film history, artists have used matte painting, stop-motion animation, model photography, process cinematography, in-camer...