Angelou, Maya.
All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes by
Maya Angelou. (Secondary) Random House, 1986. v. 5 of
her autobiography. SHC
Gather Together in My Name by Maya Angelou. (Secondary) Random House, 1974. v. 2 of her autobiography. SHC
The Heart of a Woman by Maya Angelou. (Secondary) Random House, 1981. v. 4 of her autobiography. SHC
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou. (Secondary) Random House, 1970. v. 1 of her autobiog. SHC
Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas (Secondary) Random House, 1976. v. 3 of her autobiog. SHC
Asimov, Isaac.
I. Asimov; A Memoir By Isaac Asimov. New York:
Doubleday, 1994. (Secondary) No review.
In Joy Still Felt; The Autobiography of Isaac Asimov By Isaac Asimov. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1980. (Secondary) No review.
In Memory Yet Green By Isaac Asimov. New York: Doubleday, 1979. (Secondary) No review.
Baldwin, James.
James Baldwin by Lisa Rosset. (Gr. 8-10)
Chelsea House, 1989. BBJHR
Baraka, Imamu Amiri [LeRoi Jones].
The Autobiography of LeRoi Jones/
Amiri Baraka By Amiri Baraka. (Secondary)Freundlich Bks.,
1984. SHC.
Blume, Judy.
Judy Blume's Story by Betsey Lee. (Grade 6-9)
Dillon, 1981. BBJHR
Brontes.
The Brontes Grades 7-12. Rourke, 1989. BBJHR
The Life of Charlotte Bronte by Elizabeth C. Gaskell. (Secondary) Penguin Books. First pub. in 1857. SHC.
Buck, Pearl.
Pearl Buck (Grade 7-10) Chelsea House, 1988. BBJHR
Camus, Albert.
Albert Camus by Herbert Lottman. (Secondary)
Doubleday, 1979. SHC
Capote, Truman.
One Christmas By Truman Capote. (Secondary)
Random House, 1983. SHC.
Cather, Willa.
Willa; The Life of Willa Cather By Phyllis
Robinson. (Secondary) Doubleday, 1983. SHC.
Chaucer, Geoffrey.
The Life and Times of Chaucer By John Gardner.
(Secondary) Knopf, 1977. SHC
Christie, Agatha.
Agatha Christie; A Biography By Janet Morgan.
(Secondary) Knopf, 1985. SHC
Churchill, Winston.
Winston S. Churchill By Randolph Churchill.
(Secondary) Houghton Mifflin, 1966-67. 2 v. SHC
Clark, Arthur C.
Arthur C. Clarke; The Authorized Biography
(Secondary) By Neil McAleer. Chicago: Contemporary Books, 1992.
No review.
Cleary, Beverly.
A Girl from Yamhill: A Memoir (Grade 6-12)
Morrow, 1988. BBJHR
My Own Two Feet; A Memoir By Beverly Cleary. (Grade 6-12) New York. Morrow, 1995. Continuation of A Girl from Yamhill.
Cormier, Robert.
I Have Words to Spend; Reflections of a Small
Town Editor By Robert Cormier. Delacorte Pr., 1991. No review.
Craven, Margaret.
Again Calls the Owl By Margaret Craven.
(Secondary) Putnam, 1980. SHC
Dahl, Roald.
Boy; Tales of Childhood by Roald Dahl. (Grade
7-12). Farrar, 1984.
Dickens, Charles.
Dickens; A Life by Norman MacKenzie.
(Secondary) By Norman and Jeanne MacKensie. Oxford, 1979. SHC
Dickinson, Emily.
Emily Dickinson Chelsea House, 1990. BBJHR
Douglass, Frederick.
The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass;
His Early Life as a Slave... By Frederick Douglass.
Collier, 1962. SHC
DuBois, W. E. B.
The Autobiography of W. E. B. DuBois By
W. E. B. DuBois. (Secondary) Int. Pubs., 1968. SHC
W. E. B. DuBois By Virginia Hamilton. (Secondary) Crowell, 1972. SHC
Dunbar, Paul Laurence.
Paul Laurence Dunbar (Grade 7-12)
Chelsea House, 1988. BBJHR
Duncan, Lois.
Chapters; My Growth as a Writer (Grade 7-12)
Little, 1982. BBJHR
Ellison, Ralph.
Ralph Ellison; Author (Grade 6-10) Chelsea
House, 1988. BBJHR
Fitzgerald, F. Scott.
F. Scott Fitzgerald; A Biography
(Secondary) By Andre Le Vot. Doubleday, 1983. SHC
Invented Lives; F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald. By James Mellow. (Secondary) Houghton Mifflin, 1984. SHC
Fritz, Jean.
Homesick; My Own Story (Grade 7-10) Putnam,
1982. BBJHR
Surprising Myself By Jean Fritz. Katonah, NY: R. C. Owen Pub., 1992. No Review.
Hansberry, Lorraine.
To Be Young, Gifted and Black
By Lorraine Hansberry. (Secondary) Prentice-Hall, 1969.
New American Library pa. SHC.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel.
Nathaniel Hawthorne By James Mellow.
(Secondary) Houghton Mifflin, 1980. SHC.
Hemingway, Ernest.
Ernest Hemingway; Selected Letters
Ed. by Carlos Baker. (Secondary) Scribner, 1981. SHC.
Hentoff, Nat.
Boston Boy By Nat Hentoff. (Secondary)
Knopf, 1986. SHC.
Herriot, James.
All Creatures Great and Small By James
Herriot. (Secondary) St. Martins, 1972. SHC
Hughes, Langston.
Langston Hughes; A Biography (Grade 7-10)
By Milton Meltzer. Harper, 1968. BBJHR
Langston Hughes By Jack Rummel. (Grade 8-10) Chelsea House, 1988. BBJHR
The Big Sea; An Autobiography By Langston Hughes. Hill & Wang. First pub. in 1940 by Knopf. SHC.
Hurston, Zora Neale.
Dust Tracks on a Road; An Autobiography
(Secondary) U. of Ill Press. pa. First pub. in 1942 by
Lippincott. SHC.
Johnson, Samuel.
The Life of Samuel Johnson By James Boswell.
(Secondary) Penguin Bks. pa. First published in 1791. SHC
Keats, Ezra Jack.
Ezra Jack Keats: A Biography with Illustrations. By
Dean Engel. Notable Children's Book; 1996.
Kerr, M. E.
Me Me Me Me Me; Not a Novel by M. E. Kerr.
(Grade 7-12) Harper, 1983.
King, Stephen.
Stephen King By Amy and Marjorie Keyishian. NY:
Chelsea House, 1995. No review.
Kingston, Maxine Hong.
The Woman Warrior; Memoirs of a Girlhood
Among Ghosts By Maxine Hong Kingston. (Secondary)
Knopf, 1976. SHC.
Lazaraus, Emma.
Emma Lazarus by Diane Lefer. Chelsea House, 1988.
BBJHR
Lewis, C. S.
C. S. Lewis; A Biography By Roger Lancelyn Green.
(Secondary) Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1974. SHC
Clive Staples Lewis; A Dramatic Life by William Griffin. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1986. No review.
Little, Jean.
Little by Little; A Writer's Education (Grade 6-9)
Viking, 1988. BBJHR
L'Engle, Madeleine.
Madeleine L'Engle; Author of A Wrinkle in Time
By Doreen Gonzales. New York: Maxwell Macmillan, 1991. No review.
London, Jack.
Jack London; An American Myth By John Perry.
(Secondary) Nelson-Hall, 1981. SHC.
Mailer, Norman.
Mailer; His Life and Times Edited by Peter
Manso. (Secondary) Simon & Schuster, 1985. SHC
Mathabane, Mark.
Kaffir Boy; The True Story of a Black Youth's
Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa (Secondary)
Macmillan, 1986. SHC.
Meltzer, Milton.
Starting from Home; A Writer's Beginnings
(GRade 7-12) Viking, 1988. BBJHR
Millay, Edna St. Vincent.
Edna St. Vincent Millay by Carolyn
Daffron. (Grade 7-12) Chelsea House, 1989. BBJHR
Naylor, Phyllis.
How I Came to Be a Writer By Phyllis
Naylor. Rev. & expanded ed. New Yor: Aladdin, 1987. No review.
Rylant, Cynthia.
But I'll Be Back Again; An Album by Cynthia
Rylant. (Grade 6-10) Watts, 1989. BBJHR
Sandburg, Carl.
Carl Sandburg by Jeffrey Hacker. (Grade 7-10)
Watts, 1984. BBJHR
Prairie-Town Boy by Carl Sandburg. (Grade 7-9) Harcourt, 1977. BBJHR
Always the Young Strangers By Carol Sandburg. (Secondary) Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1953. SHC
Shakespeare, William.
Shakespeare (Grade 7-12) by Christopher
Martin. Rourke, 1989. BBJHR
Singer, Isaac Bashevis.
Isaac Bashevis Singer; The Story of a
Storyteller (Grade 6-9) By Paul Kresh. Lodestar, 1984. BBJHR
A Day of Pleasure; Stories of a Boy Growing Up in Warsaw By Isaac Bahsevis Singer. (Grade 6-8) Farrar, 1969. BBJHR
Stein, Gertrude.
Gertrude Stein by Ann La Farge. (Grade 7-12)
Chelsea House, 1988. BBJHR
Steinbeck, John.
John Steinbeck; The Voice of the Land By Keith
Ferrell. Evans, 1986. BBJHR
The True Adventures of John Steinbeck By Jackson Benson. (Secondary) Viking, 1983. SHC
Stowe, Harriet Beecher.
Harriet Beecher Stowe; Author and
Abolitionist by Robert Jakoubek. (Grade 6-9) Chelsea
House, 1989. BBJHR
Sutcliff, Rosemary.
Blue Remembered Hills By Rosemary Sutcliff.
(Secondary) Morrow, 1984. SHC
Thoreau, Henry David.
Henry David Thoreau; Writer and Rebel
By Philip Van Doren Stern. (Grade 7-12) Harper, 1972. BBJHR
Thurber, James.
Thurber; A Biography By Burton Bernstein.
(Secondary) Dodd, Mead 1975. SHC
Tolkien, J. R. R.
Tolkien; A Biography By Humphrey
Carpenter. (Secondary) Houghton Mifflin, 1977. Ballantine
Bks. SHC.
Twain, Mark.
Mark Twain; A Writer's Life (Grade 7-12)
By Milton Meltzer. Watts, 1985. BBJHR
The Autobiography of Mark Twain (Secondary) Harper & Row, 1959. SHC
Verne, Jules.
Jules-Verne By Jean Jules-Verne. (Secondary)
Taplinger, 1976. SHC.
Voltaire.
Voltaire; A Biography By Hayden Mason. (Secondary)
Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1981. SHC
Vonnegut, Kurt.
Palm Sunday; An Autobiographical Collage
By Kurt Vonnegut. (Secondary) Delacorte Press, 1981. SHC
Wells, H. G.
H. G. Wells By Christopher Martin. (Grade 7-12)
Rourke, 1989. BBJHR
Wheatley, Phillis.
Phillis Wheatley By Merle Richmond.
Chelsea House, 1988. BBJHR
Wilder, Laura Ingalls.
West from Home; Letters of Laura Ingalls
Wilder, San Francisco, 1915. (Grade 7-10) Harper, 1974. BBJHR
On the Way Home; The Diary of a Trip from South Dakota to Mansfield, Missouri, in 1894 By Laura Ingalls Wiler. (Grade 7-12) Harper, 1962. BBJHR
Whitman, Walt.
Walt Whitman By Catherine Reef. Notable Children's Book
Award; 1996.
Wright, Richard.
Richard Wright By Joan Urban. (Grade 7-10)
Chelsea House, 1989. BBJHR
Black Boy By Richard Wright. (Grades 10-12) Harper & Row, 1969. BlLitHSS
BlLitHSS: Black Literature for High School Students By Barbara Dodds Stanford and Karima Amin. National Council of Teachers of English, 1978.
SHC: Senior High School Library Catalog 13th ed. New York: H. W. Wilson Company, 1987.
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