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A handy two-volume set that makes it easy to look up worldwide cultural icons actors in theatre and film architects novelists writers creative journalists composers conductors virtuoso performers choreographers dancers film directors and producers opera performers painters sculptors photographers poets popular music figures impresarios television personalities and playwrights World Cultural Leaders of the Twentieth Twenty-First Centuries provides entries many of them illustrated covering the individuals works achievements and professional career in a thorough essay and offers interesting facts and statistics