Not to be confused with the Dictionary of American Biography compiled by Francis Samuel Drake, later incorporated in Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography.
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Dictionary of American Biography
Edited by
Allen Johnson Dumas Malone
Country
United States
Language
English
Publisher
Charles Scribner's Sons on behalf of the American Council of Learned Societies
Published
1928–1936 (original)
1944–1995 (supplements)
Media type
Print
No. of books
30
Followed by
American National Biography
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