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Biography today: profiles of people of interest to young readers
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Publication Date
1993
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English
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1994: Tim Allen
Marian Anderson
Mario Andretti
Ned Andrews
Yasir Arafat
Bruce Babbitt
Mayim Bialik
Bonnie Blair
Ed Bradley
John Candy
Mary Chapin Carpenter
Benjamin Chavis
Connie Chung
Beverly Cleary
Kurt Cobain
F.W. deClerk
Rita Dove
Linda Ellerbee
Sergei Fedorov
Zlata Filipovic
Daisy Fuentes
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Whoopi Goldberg
Tonya Harding
Melissa Joan Hart
Geoff Hooper
Whitney Houston
Dan Jansen
Nancy Kerrigan
Alexi Lalas
Charlotte Lopez
Wilma Mankiller
Shannon Miller
Toni Morrison
Richard Nixon
Greg Norman
Severo Ochoa
River Phoenix
Elizabeth Pine
Jonas Salk
Richard Scarry
Emmitt Smith
Will Smith
Steven Spielberg
Patrick Stewart
R.L. Stine
Lewis Thomas
Barbara Walters
Charlie Ward
Steve Young
Kim Zmeskai. - Janet Reno
Jerry Rice
Mary Robinson
Winona Ryder
Jerry Spinelli
Denzel Washington
Keenen Ivory Wayans
Dave Winfield.
1995: Troy Aikman
Jean-Bertrand Aristide
Oksana Baiul
Halle Berry
Benazir Bhutto
Jonathan Brandis
Warren E. Burger
Ken Burns
Candace Cameron
Jimmy Carter
Agnes de Mille
Placido Domingo
Janet Evans
Patrick Ewing
Newt Gingrich
John Goodman
Amy Grant
Jesse Jackson
James Earl Jones
Julie Krone
David Letterman
Rush Limbaugh
Heather Locklear
Reba McEntire
Joe Montana
Cosmas Ndeti
Hakeem Olajuwon
Ashley Olsen
Mary-Kate Olsen
Jennifer Parkinson
Linus Pauling
Itzhak Perlman
Cokie Roberts
Wilma Rudolph
Salt 'N' Pepa
Barry Sanders
William Shatner
Elizabeth George Speare
Dr. Benjamin Spock
Jonathan Taylor Thomas
Vicki Van Meter
Heather Whitestone
Pedro Zamora.
1996: Aung San Suu Kyi
Boyz II Men
Brandy
Ron Brown
Mariah Carey
Jim Carrey
Larry Champagne III
Christo
Chelsea Clinton
Coolio
Bob Dole
David Duchovny
Debbie Fields
Chris Galeczka
Jerry Garcia
Jennie Garth
Wendy Guey
Tom Hanks
Alison Hargreaves
Sir Edmund Hillary
Judith Jamison
Barbara Jordan
Annie Leibovitz
Carl Lewis
Jim Lovell
Mickey Mantle
Lynn Margulis
Iqbal Masih
Mark Messier
Larisa Oleynik
Christopher Pike
David Robinson
Dennis Rodman
Selena
Monica Seles
Don Shula
Kerri Strug
Tiffani-Amber Thiessen
Dave Thomas
Jaleel White.
1997: Madeleine Albright
Marcus Allen
Gillian Anderson
Rachel Blanchard
Zachery Ty Bryan
Adam Ezra Cohen
Claire Danes
Celine Dion
Jean Driscoll
Louis Farrakhan
Ella Fitzgerald (Obituary)
Harrison Ford
Bryant Gumbel
John Johnson
Michael Johnson
Maya Lin
George Lucas
John Madden
Bill Monroe (Obituary)
Alanis Morissette
Sam Morrison
Rosie O'Donnell
Muammar el-Qaddafi
Christopher Reeve
Pete Sampras
Pat Schroeder
Rebecca Sealfon
Tupac Shakur (Obituary)
Tabitha Soren
Herbert Tarvin
Merlin Tuttle
Mara Wilson.
1998: Bella Abzug (Obituary)
Kofi Annan
Neve Campbell
Sean Combs (Puff Daddy)
Dalai Lama (Tenzin Gyatso)
Diana, Princess of Wales (Obituary)
Leonardo DiCaprio
Walter E. Diemer (Brief Entry
Obituary)
Ruth Handler
Hanson (Ike Hanson, Taylor Hanson, and Zac Hanson)
Livan Hernandez
Jewel
Jimmy Johnson
Tara Lipinski
Jody-Anne Maxwell (Brief Entry)
Dominique Moceanu
Alexandra Nechita
Brad Pitt
LeAnn Rimes
Emily Rose (Brief Entry)
David Satcher
Betty Shabazz (Obituary)
Kordell Stewart
Shinichi Suzuki (Obituary)
Mother Teresa (Obituary)
Mike Vernon
Reggie White
Kate Winslet.
1999: Ben Affleck
Jennifer Anniston
Maurice Ashley (Brief entry)
Kobe Bryant
Sadie Delany (Obituary)
Bessie Delany (Obituary)
Sharon Draper
Sarah Michelle Gellar
John Glenn
Savion Glover
Jeff Gordon
David Hampton (Brief entry)
Lauryn Hill
King Hussein (Obituary)
Lynn Johnston
Shari Lewis (Obituary)
Oseola McCarty
Mark McGwire
Slobodan Milosevic
Natalie Portman
J.K. Rowling
Frank Sinatra (Obituary)
Gene Siskel (Obituary)
Sammy Sosa
John Stanford (Obituary)
Natalia Toro (Brief entry)
Shania Twain
Mitsuko Uchida
Jesse Ventura
Venus Williams.
2000: Christina Aguilera
K. A. Applegate
Lance Armstrong
Backstreet Boys
Daisy Bates (Obituary)
Harry Blackmun (Obituary)
George W. Bush
Carson Daly
Ron Dayne
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Doris Haddock (Granny D)
Jennifer Love Hewitt
Chamique Holdsclaw
Katie Holmes
CharlayneHunter-Gault
Johanna Johnson
Craig Kielburger
John Lasseter
Peyton Manning
Ricky Martin
John McCain
Walter Payton (Obituary)
Freddie Prinze, Jr.
Viviana Risca
Briana Scurry
George Thampy
CeCe Winans.
2001: Jessica Alba
Christine Amanpour
Drew Barrymore
Jeff Bezos
Destiny's Child
Dale Earnhardt
Carly Fiorina
Aretha Franklin
Cathy Freeman
Tony Hawk
Faith Hill
Kim Dae-jung
Madeleine L'Engle
Mariangela Lisanti
Frankie Muniz
N Sync
Ellen Ochoa
Jeff Probst
Julia Roberts
Carl T. Rowan
Britney Spears
Chris Tucker
Lloyd D. Ward
Alan Webb
Chris Weinke.
2002: Aaliyah (Obituary)
Osama bin Laden
Mary J. Blige
Aubyn Burnside
Aaron Carter
Julz Chavez
Dick Cheney
Hilary Duff
Billy Gilman
Rudolph Giuliani
Brian Griese
Jennifer Lopez
Dave Mirra
Dineh Mohajer
Leanne Nakamura
Daniel Radcliffe
Condoleezza Rice
Marla Runyan
Ruth Simmons
Mattie Stepanek
J.R.R. Tolkien
Barry Watson
Tyrone Willingham
Elijah Wood.
2003: Yolanda Adams
Olivia Bennett
Mildred Benson
Alexis Bledel
Barry Bonds
Vincent Brooks
Laura Bush
Amanda Bynes
Kelly Clarkson
Vin Diesel
Eminem
Michele Forman
Vincente Fox
Millard Fuller
Josh Hartnett
Dolores Huerta
Sarah Hughes
Enrique Iglesias
Jeanette Lee
John Lewis
Nicklas Lidstrom
Clint Mathis
Donovan McNabb
Nelly
Andy Roddick
Gwen Stefani
Emma Watson
Meg Whitman
Reese Witherspoon
Yao Ming.
2004: Natalie Babbitt
David Beckham
Francie Berger
Tony Blair
Orlando Bloom
Kim Clijsters
Celia Cruz (Retrospective)
Matel Dawson, Jr.
The Donnas (Brett Anderson, Donna A.), Torry Castellano (Donna C.), Maya Ford (Donna F.), Allison Robertson (Donna R.))
Tim Duncan
Shirin Ebadi
Carla Hayden
Ashton Kutcher
Lisa Leslie
Linkin Park (Chester Bennington, Rob Bourdon, Brad Delson, Dave Farrell (Phoenix), Joe Hahn, and Mike Shinoda)
Lindsay Lohan
Irene D. Long
John Mayer
Mandy Moore
Thich Nhat Hanh
OutKast (Antwan Patton (Big Boi) and Andre Benjamin (Andre 3000))
Raven
Ronald Reagan (retrospective)
Keanu Reeves
Richardo Sanchez
Brian Urlacher
Alexa Vega
Michelle Wie
Will Wright.
2005: Jack Black ,1969-
Eve, 1979-
Jennie Finch, 1980-
Wally Funk, 1939-
T.D. Jakes, 1957-
Toby Keith, 1961-
Karen Mitchell-Raptakis, 1956-
Queen Noor, 1951-
Antonin Scalia, 1936-
Ben Wallace, 1974-
Chris Carrabba
Johnny Depp
James Forman
Bethany Hamilton
Anne Hathaway
Priest Holmes
Alison Krauss
Gloria Rodriguez
Donald Trump
Kristen Bell
Sergey Brin, Larry Page
Adam Brody
Cornelia Funke
Pope John Paul II
Wangari Maathai
Violet Palmer
Carlos Santana
Curt Schilling
Maria Sharapova
Ashlee Simpson.
2006: Carol Bellamy 1942
Miri Ben-Ari 1972?
Black Eyed Peas
Bono 1960
Kelsie Buckley (Brief Entry) 1995
Dale chihuly 1941
Neda DeMayo 1960
Dakota Fanning 1994
Green Day
Freddie Highmore 1992
Russel Honore 1947
Tim Howard 1979
Cynthia Kadohata 1956
Coretta Scott King 1927-2006
Rachel McAdams 1976
Cesar Millan 1969?
Steve Nash 1974
Nick park 1958
Rosa Parks 1913-2005
Danica Patrick 1982
Jorge Ramos 1958
Ben Roethlisberger 1952
Lil" Romeo 1989
Adam Sandler 1966
Russell simmons 1957
Jamie Lynn spears (Brief Entry) 1991
Jon Stewart 1962
Joss Stone 1987
Hannah Teter 1987
Brenda Villa 1980
Tyler James Williams (Brief Entry) 1992
Gretchen Wilson 1973
2007: Shaun Alexander 1977
Carmelo Anthony 1984
Drake Bell 1986
Chris Brown 1989
Regina Carter 1963?
Kortney Clemons 1980
Taylor Crabtree 1990
Miley Cyrus 1992
Aaron Dworkin 1970
Fall Out Boy
Roger Federer 1981
Will Ferrell 1967
America Ferrera 1984
June Foray 1917
Sarah Blaffer Hrdy 1946
Alicia Keys 1981
Cheyenne Kimball 1990
Keira Knightley 1985
Wendy Kopp 1967
Sofia Mulanovich 1983
Barack Obama 1961
Soledad O'Brien 1966
Jamie Oliver 1975
Skip Palenik 1947
Nancy Pelosi 1940
Jack Prelutsky 1940
Ivan "Pudge" Rodriguez 1971
Michael Sessions 1987
Kate Spade 1962
Sabriye Tenberken 1970
Rob Thomas 1965
Ashley Tisdale 1985
Carrie Underwood 1983
Muhammad Yunus 1940
2008:Aly & AJ
Bill Bass 1928
Greta Binford 1965
Cory Booker 1969
Sophia Bush 1982
Majora Carter 1966
Anderson Cooper 1967
Zac Efron 1987
Selena Gomez 1992
Al Gore 1948
Vanessa Hudgens 1988
Jennifer Hudson 1981
Zach Hunter (Brief Entry) 1991
Bindi Irwin 1998
Jonas Brothers
Lisa Ling 1973
Eli Maning 1981
Kimmie Meissner 1989
Scott Niedermayer 1973
Christina Norman 1963
Masi Oka 1974
Tyler Perry 1969
Morgan Pressel 1988
Rihanna 1988
John Roberts Jr. 1955
J.K. Rowling 1965
James Stewart Jr. 1985
Ichiro Suzuki 1973
Karen P. Tandy 1953
Marta Tienda 1950
Justin Timberlake 1981
Lee Wardlaw 1955
2009: Elizabeth Alexander
Will Allen
Judy Baca
Joe Biden
Cynthia Breazeal
Michael Cera
Miranda Cosgrove
Lupe Flasco
James Harrison
Jimmie Johnson
Heidi Klum
Lang Lang
Leona Lewis
Nastia Liukin
Demi Lovato
Jef Mallett
Warith Deen Mohammed
Walter Dean Myers
Michelle Obama
Omarion
Suze Orman
Kenny Ortega
Robert Pattinson
Chris Paul
Michael Phelps
Rachael Ray
Emma Roberts
Robin Roberts
Grayson Rosenberger
Dinara Safina
Gloria Gilbert Stoga
Taylor Swift
Shallene Woodley
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