 The 14th edition was again criticized for sexism, by a woman who wrote to editor Walter Yust that too many biographies were of men; Yust made a count and found that 6% of its 13,000 biographies were of women.The 14th edition was published in September 1929, and had 23 volumes with a one-volume Index that also contained a complete atlas.Unfortunately, the Great Depression struck scarcely a month after the release of the 14th edition, and sales plummeted.