The first supplement of the American National Biography, which was originally published in twenty-four volumes at the end of 1998, will put into print new articles added to the ANB'S online edition since June 2000. As part of what is now a standard reference work, with sales of more than 4,500 sets to the library market, the initial supplementary volume will be in strong demand from previous purchasers of the ANB. The majority of the 491 new articles concern figures who have died since the end of 1995, the cutoff date for inclusion in the original print edition. The supplement will also fill in gaps in the original twenty-four volume edition with articles on people of note who died before 1996. Supplement 1 will be followed by future volumes covering three-to-five-year spans that will extend the ANB's coverage from the year 2000 onward.

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