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My own two feet: a memoir
Par Beverly Cleary. 1995
This sequel to A Girl from Yamhill (DB 29704), covers the children's author's life from the time she began college…
until shortly after her first book, Henry Huggins (DB 35642), was published. Although money was tight, Cleary went away to college in California where she met her future husband, Clarence, then to Washington where she learned to be a children's librarian. For junior and senior high and older readersSorrow's kitchen: the life and folklore of Zora Neale Hurston
Par Mary E. Lyons, Mary E Lyons. 1990
Lyons inserts samples of Hurston's fiction, autobiography, and folklore collected in Florida, Louisiana, and the West Indies into this account…
of the African American anthropologist and Harlem Renaissance writer of stories, plays, essays, and articles. For junior and senior high and older readersMark Twain (Importance of)
Par Skip Press. 1994
Mark Twain was the pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910), the most popular author of his day. He was…
equally famous as a speaker, and easily recognized by his appearance. Even if he had never written anything besides The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (DB 53084) or The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (DB 43591 and DB 57349), he would be remembered for his sense of humor, especially about life in America. For grades 4-7 and older readersWilla Cather (Classic American writers)
Par Ann T Keene, Ann T. Keene. 1994
Born in Virginia in 1873, Willa Cather later moved to Nebraska with her homesteading parents. She planned to become a…
doctor and entered a university, where her talent in writing blossomed. Cather supported herself as a journalist and then a teacher, as she pursued her desire to write fiction. She published her first book in 1903 and won the Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours (DB 27930) in 1923. For junior and senior high readersJohn Steinbeck (Importance of)
Par Tom Ito. 1994
Portrait of a twentieth-century American author of several highly respected novels, including The Red Pony (DB 34258) and The Pearl…
(RC 9859). Steinbeck, honored with Pulitzer, O. Henry, and Nobel Prizes, focused much of his writing on the plight of the poor and downtrodden and their quest for human dignity in a land of promise. For grades 6-9 and older readersAcross America on an emigrant train
Par Jim Murphy. 1993
Robert Louis Stevenson, who would later become a famous writer, kept a journal as he traveled in 1879 from Scotland…
to the woman he loved in California--first on a crowded boat and then on a series of crammed, woefully uncomfortable trains on the transcontinental railroad. The author weaves together Stevenson's perilous trip with the history of the railroad that forever changed America. For grades 5-8 and older readersL. Frank Baum: royal historian of Oz (Lerner Biographies Ser.)
Par Angelica Shirley Carpenter, Angelica S. Carpenter, Jean Shirley. 1992
As a child, Baum was frightened by the witches and ogres in the stories he read and decided that he…
would someday write a different kind of fairy tale. Baum did just that with his successful The Wizard of Oz (DB 51047), which became a bestseller in 1900. With his Oz series, Baum created the modern American fairy tale. For grades 5-8 and older readersLaura Ingalls Wilder: a biography (Little House Ser.)
Par William Anderson, William T. Anderson. 1992
A biography of the pioneer girl who lived the "Little House" stories and later captured them for posterity in her…
books. Like Wilder, the author of this biography chronicles growing up on the frontier and pictures a way of life that has since vanished. Companion to Little House on the Prairie (DB 10929). For grades 3-6 and older readersPioneering on the Yukon, 1892-1917
Par Anna DeGraf, Roger S. Brown. 1992
In 1892, widowed fifty-three-year- old DeGraf is concerned when her son fails to return from a two- week trip to…
the Yukon. Packing her sewing machine to provide income along the way, DeGraf leaves her Seattle home and sets out to find him. She proves hardier than many of the men who turn back. DeGraf describes in her memoirs the highlights of what turned out to be a twenty-five-year stay on the Yukon frontier. Some violence. 1992Miguel de Cervantes: Spanish Writer (Hispanics of Achievement Ser.Hispanics of Achievement)
Par Jake Goldberg. 1993
Miguel de Cervantes was born in 1547 in Madrid. After careers as a soldier and as an agent of the…
crown--during both of which he served sentences in the horrible prisons of the seventeenth century--he devoted himself to writing. Don Quixote, his masterpiece, became world renowned--second in sales only to the Bible. The author discusses Cervantes's life and work. For grades 5-8 and older readersThe pigman & me (A Charlotte Zolotow Bk.)
Par Paul Zindel. 1992
Paul Zindel, author of The Pigman (RC 23431), and Pigman's Legacy (RC 23260), writes of the angst, humor, and mishaps…
that fill the year he spends with his mother and sister on Staten Island. Lacking funds but able to talk a mile a minute, his mother arranges to buy a house with Connie, a single mother with money and a set of zesty twins. Connie's father be- comes Zindel's own pigman. For junior and senior high readersMaud: the life of L.M. Montgomery
Par Harry Bruce. 1992
Discusses the life of Lucy Maud Montgomery--the Canadian author of the Anne of Green Gables series--up to her marriage in…
1911 at the age of thirty-six. Using her journals and other writings, the author describes Montgomery's bleak childhood in the household of her elderly grandparents, her determination to become a writer, and life on Prince Edward Island at the turn of the century. For grades 6-9 and older readersRalph Ellison: Author (Black Americans of Achievement Ser.Black Americans of Achievement)
Par Nathan I. Huggins, Jack Bishop. 1988
Born in Oklahoma in 1914, Ralph Ellison moved to New York City's Harlem, the "black capital of America," in 1936.…
Befriended by the novelist Richard Wright, who encouraged him to write, Ellison found that writing helped him to address such questions as "Who am I?" His quest for answers led to his novel Invisible Man (DB 56346/BR 8550), the first book by an African-American to receive the prestigious National Book Award. For grades 5-8 and older readersA child's Christmas in Wales
Par Dylan Thomas, Trina Schart Hyman. 1985
Invincible Louisa: the story of the author of Little women
Par Cornelia Meigs. 1968
Chapters: my growth as a writer
Par Lois Duncan. 1982
A successful author, who has written many popular novels for teens, traces the path of her life and her writing…
career. Lively personal anecdotes about Ms. Duncan, her family, and her teen years alternate with stories she wrote based on her experiences. For high school and adult readersInto the deep forest with Henry David Thoreau: With Henry David Thoreau
Par Jim Murphy, Kate A. Kiesler. 1995
Who was Maya Angelou? (Who Was?)
Par Dede Putra, Ellen Labrecque, Who Hq, Who Hq. 2016
A biography about a strong native Missouri black woman who was able to pull herself out of her situation and…
become a successful poet and writer who flourished at life. For grades 4-7. Unrated. BestsellerCatfish, fiddles, mules, and more: Missouri's state symbols (Missouri heritage readers #1)
Par John C Fisher, John C. Fisher. 2003
I became alone: five women poets, Sappho, Louise Labe, Ann Bradstreet, Juana Ines de la Cruz, Emily Dickinson
Par Judith Thurman, James McCrea, Ruth A. McCrea. 1975
Five passionate women poets from varying times and cultures are explored through sketches of their lives and selections from their…
poetry. Includes Sappho, Anne Bradstreet, and Emily Dickinson. For high school and adult readers