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Famous and Not So Famous: Biographies and Autobiographies for Grades 6 on Up

Autobiographies are stories people tell about their own lives. Biographies are accounts of people's lives written by others. Autobiographies have a * by the author's name.

Activists
Adventurers
Artists
Authors and Entertainers
People in History
Scientists and Inventors
Sports Stars

Activists

Fradin: Ida B. Wells: Mother of the Civil Rights Movement
Fradin: Fight On!: Mary Church Terrell's Battle for Integration
Lawlor: Helen Keller: Rebellious Spirit
Marcovitz: Cesar Chavez

Adventurers

—: *Open Your Eyes: Extraordinary Experiences in Faraway Places
Bausum: Dragon Bones and Dinosaur Eggs: A Photobiography of Explorer Roy Chapman Andrews
Giblin: Charles A. Lindbergh: A Human Hero
Kostyal: Trial by Ice: A Photobiography of Sir Ernest Shackleton
Kuhn: Angels of Mercy: The Army Nurses of World War II
Meltzer: Ferdinand Magellan: First to Sail Around the World
Streissguth: Jack London

Artists

Freedman: Martha Graham: A Dancer's Life
Gherman: Ansel Adams: America's Photographer: A Biography for Young People
*Glover: Savion!: My Life in Tap
Greenberg: Romare Bearden: Collage of Memories
Orgill: Mahalia: A Life in Gospel Music
Partridge: Restless Spirit: The Life and Work of Dorothea Lange
Rubin: Margaret Bourke-White: Her Pictures Were Her Life

Authors And Entertainers

*Cleary: A Girl From Yamhill: A Memoir
*Crutcher: King of the Mild Frontier: An Ill-Advised Autobiography
Freedman: The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights
*Gantos: Hole in My Life
*King-Smith: Chewing the Cud: An Extraordinary Life Remembered by the Author of Babe, the Gallant Pig
Lalicki: Spellbinder: The Life of Harry Houdini
*Lobel: No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War
*Meyers: Bad Boy: A Memoir
Partridge: This Land was Made for You and Me: The Life and Songs of Woody Guthrie
*Paulson: Guts: The True Stories Behind Hatchet and the Brian Books
Schoell: Remarkable Journeys: The Story of Jules Verne
*Spinelli: Knots in My Yo-Yo String: The Autobiography of a Kid

People in History

Aronson: Sir Walter Ralegh and the Quest for El Dorado
Cooper: Jack: The Early Years of John F. Kennedy
Giblin: The Life and Death of Adolf Hitler
Gold: Memories of Anne Frank: Reflections of a Childhood Friend
Fleischner: I Was Born a Slave: The Story of Harriet Jacobs
Freedman: Lincoln: A Photobiography
Hoose: We Were There, Too!: Young People in U.S. History
Kraft: Theodore Roosevelt: Champion of the American Spirit
Krull: Lives of Extraordinary Women: Rulers, Rebels, (and What the Neighbors Thought)
Landau: Heroine of the Titanic: The Real Unsinkable Molly Brown
*Mah: Chinese Cinderella
Marrin: George Washington & The Founding of a Nation
Maurer: The Wright Sister: Katharine Wright and Her Famous Brothers
Murphy: Pick & Shovel Poet: The Journeys of Pascal D'Angelo
Robertson: Standing Like a Stone Wall: The Life of General Thomas J. Jackson
Rol: Anne Frank, Beyond the Diary: A Photographic Remembrance
Rosen: Shakespeare: His Work & His World
St. George: John & Abigail Adams: An American Love Story

Scientists And Inventors

Adler: B. Franklin, Printer
Batten: Anthropologist: Scientist of the People
Dash: The Longitude Prize
Di Domenico: Super Women in Science
MacLeod: Albert Einstein: A Life of Genius
Marrin: Dr. Jenner and the Speckled Monster: The Search for the Smallpox Vaccine
Schyffert: The Man Who Went to the Far Side of the Moon: The Story of Apollo 11 Astronaut Michael Collins

Sports Stars

Freedman: Babe Didrikson Zaharias: The Making of a Champion
*Mirra: Mirra Images: The Story of My Life
Stewart: Ichiro Suzuki: Best in the West
Sullivan: Baseball's Boneheads, Bad boys, & Just Plain Crazy Guys
*Venables: To the Top: The Story of Everest
Winter: Beisbol! Latino Baseball Pioneers and Legends