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Sophomore Biography Research Bibliography
Lance Armstrong
Scott Hamilton
Magic Johnson
Nolan Ryan
Muhammad Ali
Babe Ruth
Athletes
Wilcockson, John. Lance : the making of the world's greatest
champion. Philadelphia: Da Capo Press, 2009.
Ryan, Nolan, and Mickey Herskowitz. Kings of the hill : an
irreverent look at the men on the mound. New York: HarperCollins,
1992.
Hauser, Thomas. Muhammad Ali : his life and times. New York: Simon
& Schuster, 1991.
Lipsyte, Robert. Free to be Muhammad Ali. New York: Harper & Row,
1978.
Hampton, Wilborn. Babe Ruth : a twentieth-century life. New York:
Viking, 2009.
Stewart, Wayne.
Press, 2006.
Jackie Joyner
Kersee
Sugar Ray Leonard
Oscar De La Hoya
Kristi Yamaguchi
Greg Louganis
Billie Jean King
Wilma Rudolph
Charles Albert
Bender
Sugar Ray
Robinson
Jackie Robinson
Sabin, Francene.
Babe Ruth : a biography.
Women who win.
Westport, CT: Greenwood
New York: Random House, 1975.
Swift, Tom. Chief Bender's burden : the silent struggle of a baseball
star. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2008.
Haygood, Wil. Sweet thunder : the life and times of Sugar Ray
Robinson. 1st ed. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2009.
Wukovits, John F. 1944-. Jackie Robinson and the integration of
baseball. Detroit : Lucent Books :, c2007.
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Elie Wiesel
Authors
Koestler-Grack, Rachel. Elie Wiesel : witness for humanity.
Pleasantville, NY: Gareth Stevens Pub., 2009.
Wiesel, Elie. After the darkness : reflections on the Holocaust.
New York: Schocken Books, 2002.
Walter Lord
Wiesel, Elie. Night. New York: Bantam, 1986.
Lord, Walter. A night to remember. Mattituck, N.Y.: Amereon House,
1987.
Harper Lee
Lord, Walter. The miracle of Dunkirk. New York: Viking Press,
1982.
Shields, Charles J. I am Scout : the biography of Harper Lee. New
York: Henry Holt, 2008.
Bloom, Harold. William Butler Yeats. New York: Chelsea House
Publishers, 1986.
William B. Yeats
Maya Angelou
Foster, R F. W.B. Yeats : a life. [Volume] I, the apprentice mage,
1865-1914. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.
Angelou, Maya. The heart of a woman. New York: Random House, 1981.
Gillespie, Marcia, Rosa J. Butler, and Richard A. Long.
: a glorious celebration. New York: Doubleday, 2008.
Agatha Christie
Angelou, Maya. Singin’ and swingin’ and settin’ merry like Christmas.
New York: Random House, Inc., 1976.
Barnard, Robert. A talent to deceive : an appreciation of Agatha
Christie. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1980.
Christie, Agatha.
John Steinbeck
Ray Bradbury
Corrie Ten Boom
Stephen King
Maya Angelou
A Biography.
Perennial Library, 1984.
Gill, Gillian. Agatha Christie : the woman and her mysteries. New
York: Free Press, 1990.
Tynan, Kathleen. Agatha. New York: Ballantine Books, 1978.
Parini, Jay. John Steinbeck : a biography. New York: H. Holt, 1995.
Ten Boom, Corrie, John L. Sherrill, and Elizabeth Sherrill.
hiding place. Uhrichsville, Ohio: Barbour, 1971.
King, Stephen. On writing : a memoir of the craft.
Scribner, 2000.
The
New York:
Rogak, Lisa. Haunted heart : the life and times of Stephen King.
New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2009.
Michael Crichton
Anne Rice
Amy Tan
W.E.B. Du Bois
Bolden, Tonya. W.E.B. Du Bois : a twentieth-century life. New York :
Viking, 2008.
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Marie Curie
Scientists/Inventors
McClafferty, Carla K. Something out of nothing : Marie Curie and
radium. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 2006.
Poynter, Margaret. Marie Curie : discoverer of radium.
Heights, NJ: Enslow Publishers, 2001.
Quinn, Susan.
1995.
Thomas Edison
Benjamin Franklin
Marie Curie : a life.
Berkeley
New York: Simon & Schuster,
Baxter, Roberta. Illuminated progress : the story of Thomas Edison.
Greensboro, N.C.: Morgan Reynolds Pub., 2009.
Cohen, I B. Benjamin Franklin, scientist and statesman. New York:
Scribner, 1975.
Wolff, Daniel J. How Lincoln learned to read : twelve great
Americans and the educations that made them. New York: Bloomsbury,
2009.
Robert Boyle
Roger Bacon
Albert Einstein
Born, Max. Einstein's theory of relativity.
Publications, 1965.
New York: Dover
Fisher, David E., and Gwen Brodkin. The ideas of Einstein.
York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1980.
New
Goldenstern, Joyce. Albert Einstein : physicist and genius.
Berkeley Heights, NJ: Enslow Publishers, 1995.
Isaac Newton
Lerner, Aaron B. Einstein & Newton; a comparison of the two greatest
scientists. Minneapolis [Minn.]: Lerner Publications Co, 1973.
Anderson, Margaret J. Isaac Newton : the greatest scientist of all
time. Berkeley Heights, NJ: Enslow Publishers, 1996.
Lerner, Aaron B. Einstein & Newton; a comparison of the two greatest
scientists. Minneapolis [Minn.]: Lerner Publications Co, 1973.
Grace Hopper
Alexander Graham
Bell
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Historical Figures
Walt Disney
Harriet Tubman
Fredrick Douglass
FREDERICK
DOUGLASS
Barkley, Brad, and Heather Hepler. Dream factory. New York, NY:
Dutton Books, 2007
Bentley, Judith. Harriet Tubman. New York: F. Watts, 1990.
Bloom, Harold. Black American prose writers : before the Harlem
Renaissance. New York: Chelsea House, 1994.
Bontemps, Arna W.
DODD, MEAD, 1971.
FREE AT LAST ; THE LIFE OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS.
Douglass, Frederick, John W. Blassingame, and John R. McKivigan.
Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass : an American slave.
Haven [Conn.]: Yale University Press, 2001.
Hoexter, Corinne K.
Rand McNally, 1970.
Booker T.
Washington
Black crusader: Frederick Douglass.
New
Chicago:
Huggins, Nathan I., and Oscar Handlin. Slave and citizen : the life
of Frederick Douglass. Boston: Little, Brown, 1980.
Harlan, Louis R. Booker T. Washington : the wizard of Tuskegee,
1901-1915. New York: Oxford University Press, 1983.
Norrell, Robert J. Up from history : the life of Booker T.
Washington. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press, 2009.
Sojourner Truth
Helen Keller
Woodrow Wilson
Garrett, Leslie. Helen Keller: A Photographic Life. New York: DR
Publishing, 2004.
Blum, John M. The progressive Presidents : Roosevelt, Wilson,
Roosevelt, Johnson. New York: Norton, 1980.
Clements, Kendrick A. The presidency of Woodrow Wilson.
Kan.: University Press of Kansas, 1992.
Ann Sullivan
Billy Graham
Chang and Eng
Leonardo Da Vinci
Bortolon, Liana.
1968.
The life and times of Leonardo.
Leonardo, and Mina Bacci. Leonardo.
distributed by Crown, 1978.
Leonardo, and Jack Wasserman.
1975.
Lawrence,
London: Hamlyn,
New York: Avenel Books :
Leonardo.
New York: H. N. Abrams,
Oskar Schindler
Victor Frankl
George Armstrong
Custer
Russell, Don, and Amon Carter Museum of Western Art. Custer's last;
or, The Battle of the Little Big Horn in picturesque perspective,
being a pictorial representation of the late and unfortunate
incident. [Fort Worth, Tex.: Amon Carter Museum of Western Art,
1968.
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Political/Military Figures
Madeline Albright
Jimmy Carter
Blue, Rose, and Corinne J. Naden. The modern years, 1969-2001.
Austin, Texas: Raintree Steck-Vaughn, 1998.
Carter, Jimmy. An hour before daylight : memories of a rural
boyhood. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001.
Carter, Jimmy. Christmas in Plains : memories.
Schuster, 2001.
New York: Simon &
Carter, Jimmy. Keeping faith : memoirs of a president.
Bantam Books, 1982.
Carter, Jimmy.
2004.
Winston Churchill
Hilary Clinton
HILLARY CLINTON
Thurgood Marshall
Sharing good times.
Toronto:
New York: Simon & Schuster,
Kaufman, Burton I. The presidency of James Earl Carter, Jr.
Lawrence, Kan.: University Press of Kansas, 1993.
Manchester, William R. The last lion, Winston Spencer Churchill.
Boston: Little, Brown, 1983.
Severance, John B. Winston Churchill : soldier, statesman, artist.
New York: Clarion Books, 1996.
Clinton, Hillary R. Living history. New York: Simon & Schuster,
2003.
Davis, Michael D., and Hunter R. Clark. Thurgood Marshall : warrior
at the bar, rebel on the bench. New York, N.Y.: Carol Pub. Group,
1992.
Fullen, M K. Pathblazers : eight people who made a difference.
Seattle, Wash.: Open Hand Pub., 1992.
Rowan, Carl T. Dream makers, dream breakers : the world of Justice
Thurgood Marshall. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1993.
Sandra Day
O’Connor
Jacqueline
Kennedy Onassis
Theodore
Roosevelt
Blum, John M. The progressive Presidents : Roosevelt, Wilson,
Roosevelt, Johnson. New York: Norton, 1980.
Burns, James M. Roosevelt: the soldier of freedom.
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1970.
New York:
Gould, Lewis L. The presidency of Theodore Roosevelt.
Kan.: University Press of Kansas, 1991.
Franklin Delano
Roosevelt
Lawrence,
Marrin, Albert. The great adventure : Theodore Roosevelt and the
rise of modern America. New York: Dutton Children's Books, 2007.
Alsop, Joseph, and Roland Gelatt. FDR, 1882-1945 : a centenary
remembrance. New York: Viking Press, 1982.
Blum, John M. The progressive Presidents : Roosevelt, Wilson,
Roosevelt, Johnson. New York: Norton, 1980.
Gallagher, Hugh G.
1985.
FDR's splendid deception.
New York: Dodd, Mead,
Roosevelt, Franklin D., and John G. Hunt. The essential Franklin
Delano Roosevelt. New York: Gramercy Books, 1995.
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Roosevelt, Theodore, and John G. Hunt. The essential Theodore
Roosevelt. New York: Gramercy Books, 1994.
Ward, Geoffrey C. Before the trumpet : young Franklin Roosevelt,
1882-1905. New York: Harper & Row, 1985.
Dwight David
Eisenhower
Ambrose, Stephen E.
Lyon, Peter.
Brown, 1974.
Eisenhower.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1983.
Eisenhower: portrait of the hero.
Boston: Little,
Pach, Chester J., and Elmo Richardson. The presidency of Dwight D.
Eisenhower. Lawrence, Kan.: University Press of Kansas, 1991.
Chester Nimitz
George Patton
Douglas MacArthur
Blumenson, Martin. Heroes never die : warriors and warfare in World
War II. New York: Cooper Square Press, 2001.
Patton, George S., and Paul D. Harkins. War as I knew it. Boston:
Houghton Mifflin Co., 1995.
Smith, Robert. MacArthur in Korea : the naked emperor. New York:
Simon and Schuster, 1982.
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Susan B. Anthony
Activists/Humanitarians
Barry, Kathleen. Susan B. Anthony : a biography of a singular
feminist. New York: New York University Press, 1988.
Clara Barton
Gurko, Miriam. The ladies of Seneca Falls; the birth of the woman's
rights movement. New York: Macmillan, 1974.
Oates, Stephen B. A woman of valor : Clara Barton and the Civil
War. New York: Free Press, 1994.
Patrick, Diane. Coretta Scott King. New York: F. Watts, 1991.
Coretta Scott
King
Rosa Parks
Bjornlund, Lydia D. Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Detroit: Lucent Books, 2008
Giovanni, Nikki.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Rosa.
New York: Holt, 2005.
Parks, Rosa, and Gregory J. Reed. Quiet strength : the faith, the
hope, and the heart of a woman who changed a nation. Grand Rapids,
Mich.: Zondervan Publishing House, 1994.
Freedman, Russell. Eleanor Roosevelt : a life of discovery. New
York: Clarion Books, 1993.
Hickok, Lorena A. Eleanor Roosevelt, reluctant First Lady.
York: Dodd, Mead, 1980.
New
Elizabeth Cady
Stanton
Lash, Joseph P. "Life was meant to be lived" : a centenary portrait
of Eleanor Roosevelt. New York: Norton, 1984.
Ginzberg, Lori D. Elizabeth Cady Stanton : an American life. New
York: Hill and Wang, 2009.
Martin Luther
King, Jr.
Gurko, Miriam. The ladies of Seneca Falls; the birth of the woman's
rights movement. New York: Macmillan, 1974.
Bolden, Tonya. M.L.K. : journey of a King. New York : Abrams Books
for Young Readers, 2007.
Ida B. Wells
King, Martin
Luther King,
c1998.
Bay, Mia. To
ed. New York
Luther, Jr., 1929-1968. The autobiography of Martin
Jr. New York : IPM in association with Warner Books,
tell the truth freely : the life of Ida B. Wells. 1st
: Hill and Wang, 2009.
Giddings, Paula. Ida : a sword among lions : Ida B. Wells and the
campaign against lynching. 1st ed. New York : Amistad, c2008.
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Ray Charles
Oprah Winfrey
Entertainers/Performing Artists
Ford, Carin T. Ray Charles : "I was born with music inside me".
Berkeley Heights, NJ: Enslow, 2008.
Westen, Robert. Oprah Winfrey: “I don’t believe in the failure”.
Berkely Heights, NJ: Enslow Publishers, Inc., 2005.
Marilyn Monroe
Christopher Reeve
Ludwig Von
Beethoven
Henry Winkler
Katherine Hepburn
George Burns
Cher
Harry Belafonte
Stevie Wonder
Wolfgang Amadeus
Mozart
Anthony Hopkins
Cary Grant
Harry Belafonte
Louis Armstrong
Gloria Estefan
Ella Fitzgerald
Bob Marley
Jones, Max, and John Chilton. Louis; the Louis Armstrong story,
1900-1971. Boston: Little, Brown, 1971.
Schuman, Michael. Louis Armstrong : "jazz is played from the
heart". Berkeley Heights, NJ: Enslow, 2008.
Stefoff, Rebecca. Gloria Estefan. New York: Chelsea House, 1995.
Stone, Tanya L. Ella Fitzgerald : a twentieth-century life. New
York: Viking, 2008
Miller, Calvin Craig, 1954-. Reggae poet : the story of Bob Marley.
1st ed. Greensboro, N.C. : Morgan Reynolds, c2008.
Paprocki, Sherry. Bob Marley : musician. New York : Chelsea House,
c2006.
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Entrepreneurs
Eddie Bauer
Andrew Carnegie
Bill Gates
Bowman, John. Andrew Carnegie : steel tycoon.
N.J.: Silver Burdett, 1989.
Edge, Laura B. Andrew Carnegie : industrial philanthropist.
Minneapolis: Lerner Publications Co., 2004.
Wallace, James, and Jim Erickson. Hard drive : Bill Gates and the
making of the Microsoft empire. New York: Wiley, 1992.
Woog, Adam.
Milton Hershey
Andrew Lloyd
Webber
Joseph Pulitzer
Wolfgang Puck
Jane Fonda
Donald Trump
Martha Stewart
Ross Perot
Vera Wang
Englewood Cliffs,
Bill Gates.
Levin, Doron P.
General Motors.
San Diego, CA: Lucent Books, 1999.
Irreconcilable differences : Ross Perot versus
Boston: Little, Brown, 1989.
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Adventurers
Ann Bancroft
William Clark
Amelia Earhart
Meriwether Lewis
John Glenn
Mae Jemison
Matthew Henson
Laura Bridgman
Jackie Ormes
Gragg, Rod. Lewis and Clark on the trail of discovery : the journey
that shaped America. Nashville, Tenn.: Rutledge Hill Press, 2003.
Hoxie, Frederick E., and Jay T. Nelson. Lewis & Clark and the Indian
country : the Native American perspective. Urbana: University of
Illinois Press, 2007.
Van Riper, Frank. Glenn : the astronaut who would be president. New
York: Empire, 1983.
Henson, Matthew A. A Negro explorer at the North Pole : the
autobiography of Matthew Henson. Montpelier, VT: Invisible Cities
Press, 2001.
Other
Alexander, Sally Hobart. She touched the world : Laura Bridgman,
deaf-blind pioneer. New York : Clarion Books, c2008.
Goldstein, Nancy, 1942-. Jackie Ormes : the first African American
woman cartoonist. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2008.