| Current Biography 1998 |
| Title | Subject | Authors |
|---|
| Abiola, Moshood Kashimawa. (Nigerian political leader) | History | |
| Affleck, Ben and Damon, Matt. (film actors and screenwriters) | History | |
| Ahern, Bertie. (Republic of Ireland Prime Minister and leader of the Fianna Fail Party) | History | |
| Alexander, Jason. (actor) | History | |
| Alexie, Sherman. (poet, novelist and screenwriter)(includes bibliography) | History | |
| Allen, Paul. (entrepreneur) | History | |
| Amichai, Yehuda. (Israeli poet)(includes bibliography) | History | |
| Amos, Tori. (composer; singer) | History | |
| Anderson, Ian. (British singer; songwriter; instrumentalist; front man of the rock group Jethro Tull)(includes bibliography) | History | |
| Arnault, Bernard. (Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton Corp. Chairman and CEO) | History | |
| Augustine, Norman R. (Lockheed Martin Corp. Chairman; educator) | History | |
| Babyface. (Kenneth Edmonds, singer, songwriter and producer) | History | |
| Badu, Erykah. (soul singer, songwriter) | History | |
| Barry, Dave. (humor columnist) | History | |
| Barrymore, Drew. (actress)(includes bibliography) | History | |
| Beckett, Wendy. (nun and art critic) | History | |
| Beers, Charlotte. (Ogilvy and Mather Worldwide Chairman emeritus) | History | |
| Berendt, John. (writer) | History | |
| Berger, Samuel R. "Sandy." (US National Security Adviser)(includes bibliography) | History | |
| Berman, Chris. (sportscaster) | History | |
| Bezos, Jeff. (Amazon.com founder and CEO) | History | |
| Black, Cathleen P. (president of Hearts Magazines) | History | |
| Bonham Carter, Helena. (British actress) | History | |
| Bowles, Erskine. (White House Chief of Staff) | History | |
| Brooks, Diana D. (Sotheby's Holdings Inc. President) | History | |
| Brooks, James L. (film and television producer, screenwriter, director) | History | |
| Burton, Dan. (US Representative from Indiana) | History | |
| Callahan, John. (cartoonist) | History | |
| Cameron, James. (filmmaker) | History | |
| Carey, Drew. (comedian) | History | |
| Catlett, Elizabeth. (sculptor, printmaker) | History | |
| Cerf, Vinton G. (computer scientist; MCI Communications Corp senior vice president of Internet architecture and engineering) | History | |
| Chenault, Kenneth I. (American Express Co. president and chief operating officer) | History | |
| Chernomyrdin, Viktor. (Fromer Prime Minister of Russia) | History | |
| Chouinard, Yvon. (Patagonia Inc. owner and founder) | History | |
| Chow Yun-Fat. (actor) | History | |
| Cohen, Abby Joseph. (investment strategist of Goldman, Sachs and Co.) | History | |
| Cohen, William S. (US Secretary of Defense) | History | |
| Combs, Sean "Puffy". (CEO of Bad Boy Entertainment; rap singer) | History | |
| Cone, David. (baseball player)(includes bibliography) | History | |
| Coolio. (rap singer)(Cover Story) | History | |
| Cooper, Cynthia. (basketball player) | History | |
| Covey, Stephen R. (personality development consultant) | History | |
| Cox, Bobby. (manager of the Atlanta Braves)(includes bibliography) | History | |
| Crow, Sheryl. (singer, songwriter) | History | |
| Cuomo, Andrew M. (U.S Secretary of Housing and Urban Development) | History | |
| Cusack, Joan. (actress) | History | |
| Daley, William M. (United States Secretary of Commerce) | History | |
| David, Larry. (filmmaker) | History | |
| Dell, Michael. (Dell Computer Corp. founder, chairman and CEO) | History | |
| Disney, Anthea. (News America Publishing Group chair and CEO) | History | |
| Dobson, James C. (psychologist and Focus on the Family founder and president) | History | |
| Downey, Robert Jr. (film actor) | History | |
| Drescher, Fran. (television and film actress) | History | |
| Duggan, Ervin S. (president and CEO of Public Broadcasting Service) | History | |
| Earle, Steve. (singer and songwriter) | History | |
| Ebbers, Bernard J. (President and CEO of WorldCom)(includes bibliography) | History | |
| Edwards, Teresa. (point guard and coach) | History | |
| Ellison, Lawrence J. (chairman and CEO of Oracle Corp.) | History | |
| Ellroy, James. (crime-fiction writer) | History | |
| Emanuel, Rahm. (senior presidential adviser) | History | |
| Eszterhas, Joe. (screenwriter) | History | |
| Fagan, Garth. (Garth Fagan Dance artistic director) | History | |
| Feingold, Russell D. (US Senator from Wisconsin) | History | |
| Feinstein, John. (sportswriter; radio and TV commentator) | History | |
| Finley, Karen. (performance artist) | History | |
| Folkman, Judah. (medical researcher, surgeon, educator) | History | |
| Fonda, Peter. (actor) | History | |
| Ford, Tom. (fashion designer) | History | |
| Frankel, Felice. (artist-photographer) | History | |
| Fry, Stephen. (British writer and actor) | History | |
| Fudge, Ann M. (Kraft Foods Inc. executive VP) | History | |
| Gandhi, Sonia. (President of India's Congress Party) | History | |
| Gardner, Howard. (psychologist) | History | |
| Garnett, Kevin. (Basketball player) | History | |
| Gell-Mann, Murray. (physicist) | History | |
| Gergiev, Valery. (Russian conductor and opera director) | History | |
| Ghezali, Salima. (editor-in-chief of the Algerian newspaper La Nation) | History | |
| Giddens, Anthony. (sociologist; director of the London School of Economics) | History | |
| Gigli, Romeo. (Italian fashion designer) | History | |
| Graham, Donald E. (CEO and chairman of the Wahington Post) | History | |
| Granato, Cammi. (hockey player) | History | |
| Grier, Pam. (actress)(includes bibliography) | History | |
| Griffith, Nanci. (folk and country singer-songwriter)(includes bibliography) | History | |
| Grove, Andrew S. (Chairman, president and CEO of Intel Corp.) | History | |
| Habibie, Bacharuddin Jusuf. (president of Indonesia) | History | |
| Hamed, Prince Naseem. (British boxer) | History | |
| Hamill, Pete. (newspaper columnist, reporter, editor, novelist)(includes bibliography) | History | |
| Hardaway, Tim. (All-Star point guard with the Miami Heat) | History | |
| Hasek, Dominik. (hockey player) | History | |
| Hashimoto, Ryutaro. (Prime Minister of Japan)(includes bibliography) | History | |
| Hawke, Ethan. (film actor)(Cover Story) | History | |
| Heche, Anne. (actress) | History | |
| Herman, Alexis M. (US Secretary of Labor) | History | |
| Hernandez, Livan. (pitcher with Florida marlins) | History | |
| Hoge, James F., Jr. (editor of Foreign Affairs) | History | |
| Holbrooke, Richard C. (United States ambassador to the United Nations) | History | |
| Holland, Agnieszka. (Polish film director) | History | |
| Huffington, Arianna Stassinopoulos. (columnist: nonfiction writer) | History | |
| Husseini, al-, Faisal. (Palestinian political leader) | History | |
| Irvan, Ernie. (race-car driver) | History | |
| Jackson, Jesse L., Jr. (United States Representative from Illinois) | History | |
| Jacobs, Marc. (fashion designer)(includes bibliography) | History | |
| Jobs, Steven. (Apple Computer Inc co-founder and interim president) | History | |
| Johnston, Lynn. (Canadian cartoonist)(includes bibliography) | History | |
| Jones, Cherry. (actress) | History | |
| Jones, Marion. (track athlete) | History | |
| Jordan, Michael H.(includes bibliography) | History | |
| Kabakov, Ilya. (Russian artist) | History | |
| Kamprad, Ingvar. (swedish entrepreneur; IKEA International founder) | History | |
| Kasich, John R. (US Representative from Ohio) | History | |
| Kelley, David E. (television producer and writer) | History | |
| Kerr, Steve. (basketball player Chicago Bulls) | History | |
| Khatami, Mohammad. (President of the Islamic Republic of Iran) | History | |
| Kiarostami, Abbas. (Iranian filmmaker) | History | |
| Kiriyenko, Sergei. (Prime Minister of Russia) | History | |
| Kitano, Takeshi. (Japanese filmmaker; film and television actor; comedian: fiction writer and columnist) | History | |
| Kopple, Barbara. (documentary filmmaker) | History | |
| Kuok, Robert. (Malaysian entrepreneur) | History | |
| Leguizamo, John. (stage, film and television actor; playwright) | History | |
| Lerner, Gerda. (historian)(includes bibliography) | History | |
| Leslie, Lisa. (basketball player)(Cover Story) | History | |
| Levy, David. (Israeli politician) | History | |
| Levy, Marv. (former head coach of Buffalo Bills)(includes bibliography) | History | |
| Lindros, Eric. (Canadian hockey player) | History | |
| Lipinski, Tara. (women's figure skating olympic gold-medalist) | History | |
| Litton, Andrew. (conductor and music director) | History | |
| Lovano, Joe. (jazz saxophonist, composer) | History | |
| Mamet, David. (playright, screenwriter, director) | History | |
| Manning, Peyton. (football player) | History | |
| Matzinger, Polly. (immunologist) | History | |
| Mbeki, Thabo. (Executive deputy president of South Africa; African National Congress president) | History | |
| McCarthy, Carolyn. (United States Representative and gun activist) | History | |
| McCourt, Frank. (writer, teacher)(includes bibliography) | History | |
| McDonagh, Martin. (Irish playwright) | History | |
| McGwire, Mark. (first baseman with the St. Louis Cardinals) | History | |
| Minor, Halsey. (Chairman and CEO of CNET) | History | |
| Moore, Julianne. (actress) | History | |
| Naifeh, Steven and Smith, Gregory White. (nonfiction writers) | History | |
| Nye, Bill. (creator and host of television series 'Bill Nye the Science Guy') | History | |
| Ohga, Norio. (Sony Corp. chairman and CEO) | History | |
| Osborne, Tom. (former head coach of the Nebraska Cornhuskers) | History | |
| Osmond, Donny. (pop singer, actor)(includes bibliography) | History | |
| Ozawa, Seiji. (Japanese conductor) | History | |
| Parker, Sarah Jessica. (actress) | History | |
| Petronio, Stephen. (choreographer) | History | |
| Pfeiffer, Eckhard. (Compaq Computer Corp. CEO) | History | |
| Pinker, Steven A. (educator, writer and cognitive scientist) | History | |
| Pitino, Rick. (head coach of the Boston Celtics) | History | |
| Plant, Robert. (rock singer) | History | |
| Plavsic, Biljana. (president of the Serb Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina)(includes bibliography) | History | |
| Puck, Wolfgang. (German chef and restaurateur) | History | |
| Rampersand, Arnold. (biographer; professor) | History | |
| Ray, Amy. (singer and songwriter, member of music group Indigo Girls) | History | |
| Remnick, David. (editor of the New Yorker) | History | |
| Rendell, Ed. (Mayor of Philadelphia) | History | |
| Reza, Yasmina. (French playwright) | History | |
| Rhone, Sylvia. (Elektra Entertainment Group chairman and CEO) | History | |
| Riggio, Leonard. (Barnes and Noble Inc. chairman and CEO) | History | |
| Rimes, LeAnn. (country and pop singer) | History | |
| Robinson, Randall. (TransAfrica founder and executive director) | History | |
| Ronaldo. (Brazilian soccer player) | History | |
| Saliers, Emily. (singer and songwriter; member of Indigo Girls) | History | |
| Sanchez Vicario, Arantxa. (Spanish tennis player) | History | |
| Sandler, Adam. (television and film actor) | History | |
| Scheck, Barry. (criminal defense lawyer, law professor) | History | |
| Sharif, Mohammad Nawaz. (Pakistani Prime Minister) | History | |
| Sheindlin, Judith ("Judge Judy"). (television courtroom judge) | History | |
| Shelton, Henry H. (Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman) | History | |
| Shirley, Donna. (Director of the Mars Exploration Program at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory) | History | |
| Siegfried and Roy. (German-born illusionists Siegfried Fischbacher and Roy Uwe Ludwig Horn) | History | |
| Simmons, Russell. (Rush Communications founder and CEO) | History | |
| Smith, Barbara. (restaurateur) | History | |
| Smith, Kevin. (film director, producer, screenwriter, actor)(includes bibliography) | History | |
| Soderbergh, Steven. (filmmaker) | History | |
| Sorvino, Mira. (actress) | History | |
| Starr, Kenneth W. (independent counsel for the Whitewater investigation) | History | |
| Street, Picabo. (skier)(Cover Story) | History | |
| Stuart, Gloria. (film actress) | History | |
| Taymor, Julie. (theater, film and opera director and designer) | History | |
| Torrey, E. Fuller. (psychiatrist) | History | |
| Toscani, Oliviero. (Italian publisher, photographer; creator of ad campaigns for Benetton Group) | History | |
| Trey, Parker and Matt, Stone. (animators) | History | |
| Turner, Ted. (Time Warner Inc. Vice Chairman) | History | |
| Van Duyn, Mona. (poet) | History | |
| Versace, Donatella. (Gianni Versace Group Creative Director) | History | |
| Viola, Bill. (video artist) | History | |
| Vogel, Paula. (playwright) | History | |
| Walker, Larry. (baseball player) | History | |
| Weider, Joe. (Weider Publications president and CEO, bodybuilder) | History | |
| Whelan, Wendy. (ballet dancer) | History | |
| Willes, Mark H. (Chairman, president and CEO of Times Mirror Co.) | History | |
| Williams, Brian. (television journalist) | History | |
| Williams, Hank, Jr. (country singer, songwriter, instrumentalist) | History | |
| Williams, Jody. (coordinator of the International Coalition to Ban Landmines, peace activist) | History | |
| Wilson, Cassandra. (jazz singer, composer) | History | |
| Wong Kar-Wai. (film director; producer; screnwriter) | History | |
| Yassin, Ahmed. (spiritual leader of Hamas) | History | |
| Yearwood, Trisha. (country singer) | History | |
| Yeoh, Michelle. (Chinese movie actress) | History | |
| Young, Neil. (Canadian-born rock musician) | History | |
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