Biography marquis whos who

American publishing company

Marquis Who's Who, also known as A.N. Marquis Company, ( or ) is an American publisher of a number of directories containing short biographies.

The books usually are entitled Who's Who in... followed by some subject, such as Who's Who in America, Who's Who of American Women, Who's Who in Asia, Who's Who in the World, Who's Who in Science and Engineering, Who's Who in American Politics, etc.

Often, Marquis Who's Who books are found in the reference section of local libraries, at corporate libraries, and are also used for research by universities.^[1][2]

In 2005, while Marquis was owned by News Communications, Inc., publishers of The Hill; The New York Times referred to the sixtieth edition of Who's Who in America as "a librarian's Vanity Fair".^[3]

Marquis states in its preface that Who's Who in America "endeavors to profile the leaders of American society; those men and wome