American Biographical Index Coss Fitts

Serves as an index to the microfiche sets entitled: American biographical archive (ABA) and the American Biographical Archive, Series II (ABA II). Provides a summary of the information about 488,000 persons featured in the two sets.

This one-volume abridgment of the Dictionary of American biography contains concise versions of all 18,110 biographies contained in the original work and the eight supplement volumes. It also includes 1,026 biographies of figures who died between 1961 and 1970, as well as a 170-page listing of all subjects by occupation (in some 1,000 fields of endeavor). Edited under the sponsorship of the American Council of Learned Societies. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR