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The dictionary's more than 18,000 entries include year of birth and death, a brief descriptive phrase ("English statesman," "French cyclist"), and a paragraph of biography. Some entries, such as those for George Eliot and William James, cite a source or two. Three hundred individuals, among them Menachem Begin, Winston Churchill, Thomas Edison, and Hannibal, are treated in special-feature boxes. These featured entries are generally longer than other entries, have more extensive lists of sources, and often include a quote. All entries are cross-referenced. For the most part, information seems to be current through 2001.
Both the Chambers Biographical Dictionary and The Cambridge Biographical Dictionary have a British slant, and Houghton Mifflin still has plenty of entries for Commonwealth cricketers. But readers will also find Lance Armstrong, Mia Hamm, Mark McGwire, and Serena Williams and Venus Williams. Also here are Russell Crowe, Frank Gehry, Rudy Giuliani, Mohammad Khatami, Kim Jong Il, Don King, Pervaiz Musharraff, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Vladimir Putin. None of these individuals appear in The Cambridge Biographical Dictionary, Houghton Mifflin's closest competitor. Among the handful of other one-volume biographical encyclopedias, Merriam-Webster's Biographical Encyclopedia (rev. ed., 1995) is the largest (30,000 entries) and has many Americans who are not found elsewhere, but it does not cover living persons. Encyclopedia of Biography (St. Martin's, 1996) has illustrations but offers just 10,000 entries. The Houghton Mifflin Dictionary of Biography is now the most current one-volume biographical dictionary and is recommended for high-school, public, and academic libraries. RBB
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