The Encyclopedia of World Biography has been designed to meet a growing need in school and college libraries as well as in public libraries. Written entirely by academic authorities and other specialists, and enriched with illustrations, bibliographies, Study Guides, and Index, this work, we believe, combines more useful features for the student than any other multivolume biographical encyclopedia. From the start, EWB was planned to relate to every area of current curricula. It reflects the emergence of the Third World in America's consciousness and the significance of 20th-century movements in art and thought. Its 5,000 articles discuss the lives of representative men and women whose achievements are important to our understanding of social and cultural history. - Introduction.