biography as a literary form

The authors present techniques involving hundreds of questions which will provide material for family histories. The questions range from "The house of your growing up" to "Romance and relationships" to Hard questions: Extra credit.".

Prince William, member of the British royal family, and Kate Middleton, commoner, who married after a courtship followed by the media. Discusses their individual backgrounds, relationship, the activities they have in common, their place in the future of the royal family of Britain, as well as general information about their home country, England.

Explains basic research techniques that can be used to discover the history of a person.

Examines the life of E. B. White, a children's storybook author, and provides information on how the reader may compose their own biography.

Provides reproducible cross-curriculum activities for teaching the biography genre in grades four through six, including such projects as "awesome author" trading cards, birth certificates, book reviews, and poetry anthologies, and includes self-check sheets and rubrics.

A memoir-writing guide offers writing lessons and examples for those interested in putting their memories down on paper, explains the difference between remembering and imagining, and describes the language of truth.

Presents lessons and cross-curricular activities on the lives and accomplishments of Americans Martin Luther King, Jr., Helen Keller, Amelia Earhart, Theodor Seuss Geisel, and Walt Disney.

Nicholas Greer has immersed himself for years in researching and writing a biography of controversial British painter Frank Spira, but his task becomes even more complicated when he meets with one of Spira's ex-lovers and receives news that Spira's definitive work--believed to have been destroyed--may still exist and someone is willing to kill to possess it.