Biography & Autobiography

In 2003, Jay-Z retired from making music. He had made award-winning albums, founded a rec...

Engaging text, authentic photographs, and a timeline illustrate the life of labor leader ...

One building looks like it's been wrapped in tinfoil. Another looks like it's buried unde...

This book is an in-depth biography of Fannie Lou Hamer, who was an important figure in th...

As a little girl, Teresa Carreno loved to let her hands dance across the beautiful keys o...

Inspired by the #1 New York Times bestseller She Persisted by Chelsea Clinton and Alexand...

How did a young boy from Ohio go on to become one of the greatest basketball players of a...

"I hope this book inspires you to overcome challenges and make a positive difference in t...

Thomas Jefferson lived a dozen lifetimes in one: patriot, scientist, architect, United St...

Beloved children's television host Fred Rogers is the 31st hero in the New York...

Best known for his screen prints of soup cans and movie stars, this shy young boy from Pi...

The first volume of Famous Composers written by Darren Henley and read by Marin Alsop, th...

The author of My Name Is Maria Isabel offers an inspiring look at her childhood in Cuba i...

Traces the lives and careers of today's hottest starts- Great for reluctant readers- Attr...

Deeply influential cultural icon Oprah Winfrey is the twenty-fifth hero in this New York ...

Learn more about Richard Nixon--one of America's most unpopular presidents and the only o...

David Beckham—the world-famous soccer star, celebrity, and sports icon—has jo...

This is how history should be told to kids!From Newbery Honor medalist Susan Campbell Bar...

As a child, Clive Staples Lewis imagined many things...heroic animals and knights in armo...

Esmé tells us about the night she and her mother became "egg vigilantes" a...

China Homecoming is the sequel to Jean Fritz's Newbery Honor book Homesick: My Own Story....

With the same gusto, humor, and dazzling description that light up his fiction, Sid Fleis...

This thrilling account of Napoleon's rise to power-from his humble beginnings on the isla...

Long before there was a band, there was a boy: a young Keith Richards, who was introduce...

A boy rides a bicycle down a dusty road. But in his mind, he envisions himself traveling ...

In exuberant verse and stirring pictures, Patricia Hruby Powell and Christian Robinson cr...

Everyone's a New Yorker on Thanksgiving Day, when young and old rise early to see what gi...

This is a story about a young lady, Missy, aged twelve at the time of her writing this bo...

Nevermore brings one of America's most enigmatic writers to the attention of a new genera...

Matthew Henson's destiny was set when he met naval officer Robert Edwin Peary in 1887. An...

As his parents' shouting tears through the walls to the room where he is supposed to be s...

An acclaimed biographer for children, Tanya Lee Stone has received many accolades for her...

Born in Warsaw, Poland, on November 7, 1867, Marie Curie was forbidden to attend the male...

A short, red-headed and red-faced man with a bold personality, Myles Standish is remember...

It's one thing for scientists to use animals for their experiments. But it's another thin...

Is a painting of a can of soup really art? Born in 1928 to immigrant parents, Andy Warhol...

Born into slavery in Maryland in 1818, Frederick Douglass was determined to gain freedom-...

It seems entirely fitting that Maurice Sendak was born on the same day that Mickey Mouse ...

Roald Dahl is one of the most famous children's book authors ever. Now in this Who W...

It was 1961. John Lewis and Jim Zwerg are two young men boarding a bus and heading south ...

"When elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers. This ancient proverb of the Kikuyu p...

Mysterious boy king Tutankhamun returns to the U.S. in 2008, bringing rare treasures neve...

Jacqueline Briggs Martin's Snowflake Bentley won a Caldecott Medal, a Parents' Choice Awa...

A biography of American novelist Stephenie Meyer, author of the best-selling Twilight sag...

What do King Tut, Galileo, Crazy Horse, Bruce Lee, Chico Mendes, Elvis Presley, Bill Gate...

Jim Henson broke into television with a five-minute puppetry segment when he was only a f...

In 1953, Esref Armagan was born completely blind to a poor family in Istanbul, Turkey. He...

Who doesn't love Lucy? The legendary actress, producer, and comedian steps into the Who W...

Harry Houdini, born Ehrich Weiss, never did anything by half measure. Once he decided to ...

Winner of the Randolph Caldecott Medal and the Coretta Scott King Illustrator AwardJean-...