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The American National Biography Online reflects the rich diversity of American life, and the December 2003 update continues that tradition, including articles on recently deceased notables and intriguing figures from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Actor Jack Lemmon makes his debut with the ANB, and the versatile baseball player/manager Lou Boudreau joins the lineup. Author Anne Morrow Lindbergh is now the subject of an article of her own after having been mentioned in the past in ANB articles on her father, Dwight Morrow, and her husband, Charles Lindbergh. Among notable African Americans new to the ANB are the astronaut Robert Henry Lawrence, the essayist Ann Plato, the singer Sissieretta Jones, and the underground railroad conductor Samuel Burris. The journalist Gerald W. Johnson, deemed by H. L. Mencken the "best editorial writer in the South," also appears, along with linguist Bernard Bloch, religious leader Shlomo Carlebach, composer Ernst von Dohnányi, and the formidable newspaper publisher Katherine Meyer Graham. Also included: the creator of the comics character Hairbreadth Harry, C. W. Kahles, who produced cliffhanger endings that captivated millions of readers; and the rogue and imposter Stephen Burroughs, a classic type in American culture. And the most fascinating figure in this latest gathering of ANB articles may be John Horse, a Seminole Maroon leader and Mexican army officer with numerous identities.

For a full list of biographies added this month, please go to http://www.anb.org/update.html

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