The International Who’s Who 2002 65th edition

Along with its competitors, A & C Black’s Who’s Who and Debrett’s People of Today, this, the 65th edition of Europa’s International Who’s Who, is one of those standard reference sources about which it is hard to find anything new to say. The laudatory quote on the back cover from Reference Reviews: “Among the world’s most significant reference books” is testimony enough, but since this volume is twice the price of its two competitors, we need to see if it is still value for money.

The cover quote: “Brings together our most gifted and influential contemporaries from...