Famous biographies for young people

Interesting accounts of the experiences of some of the men and women who were spies in the Revolutionary and the Civil Wars.

Brief biographies of twelve Afro-American poets with examples of their best-known works, from Jupiter Hammon of the eighteenth century to today's Arna Bontemps and Gwendolyn Brooks.

Presents short biographical sketches of thirteen American authors: Cooper, Irving, Prescott, Hawthorne, Poe, Emerson, Thoreau, Melville, Parkman, Mark Twain, Stephen Crane, O. Henry, and Jack London.

This collection of short biographies briefly gives an account of the stubling blocks and helping hands which these poets encountered.