Each year, all profiles and obituaries from the monthly issues of Current Biography are updated and presented alphabetically in a single hardcover volume. Current Biography Yearbook 2009 delivers nearly 200 profiles in all. A sturdy library binding and acid-free paper make this investment last.

The annual volume also includes a complete cumulation of the year’s obituaries, a cumulated index of articles and obituaries published in the current decade, and a classification of the subjects of articles by their professions. A sturdy library binding and acid-free paper make this investment last.

◘ 700 pp.
◘ January 2010
◘ Illustrated
◘ ISBN 978-0-8242-1104-2
◘ $180
◘ $215 (outside U.S. and Canada)  

Here’s a sampling of just some of the fascinating people covered in Current Biography Yearbook 2009 (complete list):

Sports

• Gilbert Arenas, Basketball player

• Usain Bolt, Runner

• Mike D’Antoni, Basketball head coach

• Cliff Lee, Baseball player

• Chad Ochocinco, Football player

• Pam Oliver, Sportscaster

Music & Arts

• Maya Beiser, Cellist

• Ernesto Neto, Sculptor and installation artist

• Pete Rock, Record Producer and deejay

• Henry Selick, Filmaker and animator

• Ayelet Waldman, Writer

Politics, Society, & Government

• David Axelrod, White House senior adviser and political consultant

• Joseph R. Biden, Vice president of the United States

• Hillary Rodham Clinton, U.S. secretary of state

• Michaëlle Jean, Governor general of Canada

• Barack Obama, President of the United States

• Mikheil Saakashvili, President of Georgia

Business

• Mitchell Baker, Internet-company executive

• Jason Kilar, Chief executive officer of Hulu

• Manny Mashouf, Founder and chairman of bebe Stores Inc.

• Clarence Otis Jr., chief executive officer of Darden Restaurants Inc.

• Vivian Schiller, President and chief executive officer of National Public Radio

• Evan Williams, Co-founder and chief executive officer of Twitter

Science

• Alison Jolly, Primatologist, and writer

• Kay Redfield Jamison, Psychologist, educator, and writer

• Peter Higgs, Theoretical physicist

• Rodolfo R. Llinás, Neuroscientist

• Christopher P. McKay, Planetary scientist

• Maria Siemionow, Microsurgeon

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Current Biography Cumulated Index: 1940-2005
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