Biography & Autobiography

No one thought Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass would ever become friends. The for...

Joan of Arc was born in a small French village during the worst period of the Hundred Yea...

He came. He saw. He conquered. Julius Caesar was a force to be reckoned with as a savvy p...

As young boys, Orville and Wilbur Wright loved all things mechanical. As young men, they...

Born in 1860s Missouri, nobody expected George Washingtoni Carver to succeed. Slaves were...

Dietrich Bonhoeffer is one of the heroes of World War 2. Not only did he preach God&rsquo...

The famous Mexican painter Frida Kahlo is the 23rd hero in the New York Times bestselling...

This book is a history of the team that explored the newly acquired Louisiana Purchase te...

Russell Martin, author of Beethoven's Hair, and his wife, Lydia Nibley, tell the story of...

The 21st book in the New York Times bestselling series of biographies about her...

The 22nd book in the New York Times bestselling series of biographies about her...

An entertaining biography of the man behind Stuart Little and Charlotte's Web, two of the...

Three words that sum up D. L. Moody's life are Passion, Vision and Devotion - for God...

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was only 25 when he helped organize the Montgomery Bus Boycot...

We can all be heroes. That’s the inspiring message of this lively biography series ...

We can all be heroes. That’s the inspiring message of this New York Times ...

This New York Times Bestselling biography series by Brad Meltzer has an inspiring me...

"We can all be heroes" is the message entertainingly told in this biography series from #...

We can all be heroes. That’s the inspiring message of this New York Times Bestselli...

We can all be heroes. That’s the inspiring message of this lively biography series ...

Harriet Tubman's heroic and pivotal role in the fight against slavery is the subject of t...

Our bestselling series is fit for a queen!The life of Queen Elizabeth I was dramatic and ...

Born in Austria in 1756, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composed his first piece of music, a min...

At age two, Helen Keller became deaf and blind. She lived in a world of silence and darkn...

Did you know that John Adams had to coax Thomas Jefferson into writing the Declaration of...

Madam C. J. Walker was beloved within her community for her philanthropy and expanding th...

The famous Renaissance artist and inventor Leonardo da Vinci is the twentieth hero in the...

Over the course of history, famous people made mistakes that were so monumental they coul...

As a child his passions were comics and cars, but George Lucas grew up to be one of the m...

You can always recognize a painting by Kahlo because she is in nearly all--with her black...

Bugs, of all kinds, were considered to be "born of mud" and to be "beasts of the devil." ...

Which king liked to bathe while the band played Rule Britannia? Which queen was so fat sh...

Claude Monet is considered one of the most influential artists of all time. He is a found...

How did the great scientists make their remarkable discoveries? And what kind of men were...

Even as a kid, everyone thought Jeff Kinney was talented. People loved his drawings, and ...

What was it like growing up as a son of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.? This memoir by Mart...

With more than 1.5 million copies sold, Killing Lincoln deftly recounts one of the most d...

Who Is Hillary Clinton? Readers of our New York Times best-selling series can find out no...

Ever since Barack Obama was young, Hope has lived inside him. From the beaches of Hawaii ...

Born into the Northern Paiute tribe of Nevada in 1844, Sarah Winnemucca straddled two cul...

Alan loves animals, but the great cat house at the Bronx Zoo makes him sad. Why are they ...

Young Clara Barton is shy and lonely in her early days at boarding school. She is snubbe...

Mark Twain was born fully grown, with a cheap cigar clamped between his teeth. So begins ...

Pocahontas was the special favorite of her father, the great chief Pawhatan. And when the...

Negro league baseball players didn't always get the respect that major leaguers received....

A life in the wild! Jane Goodall, born in London, England, always loved animals and wante...

Like Michelangelo, Galileo is another Renaissance great known just by his first name--a n...

Picture a Crow Indian elder, his wizened eyes catching yours in the ancient flicker of fi...

Born in Connecticut in 1811, Harriet Beecher Stowe was an abolitionist, author, and playw...

Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House books, based on her own childhood and later life, are...