biography

Presents a collection of illustrated photographs and stories representing the life and career of Eleanor Roosevelt, and examines her White House years, her years as a delegate to the United Nations, and more.

Text and pictures describe the life and ideas of the Black Muslim leader Malcolm X.

Charlie goes west to become a cowboy and also becomes one of the great painters of the American West.

Traces the life of the highly respected Confederate general, with an emphasis on his difficult boyhood in Virginia.

The author, illustrator, and reteller of Native American legends describes his life and his approach to his work.

A biography of the American poet whose compassion led him to nurse soldiers during the Civil War, to give voice to the nation's grief at Lincoln's assassination, and to capture the true American spirit in verse.

A brief biography that highlights some important events in the life of the woman who helped to bring about peace and friendship between English settlers in Virginia and the native Powhatan people.

Profiles the life of the eighteenth-century Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus whose scientific naming of plants and animals provided an international language of nature.

Children's author, Yoshiko Uchido, describes growing up in Berkeley, California, as a Nisei, second generation Japanese American, and her family's internment in a Nevada concentration camp during World War II.

A biography of Dorothea Lange, whose photographs of migrant workers, Japanese American internees, and rural poverty helped bring about important social reforms.