Barnes & Noble: : Groundbreaking Enterpreneurs (Publishing Pioneers)
by Kayla Morgan
Tony Diterlizzi (Children's Illustrators) (Checkerboard Biography Library: Children's Illustrators)
by Sheila Griffin Llanas
A Reader's Guide to Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God (Multicultural Literature)
by Laura Baskes Litwin
"An introduction to Zora Neale Hurston's novel Their eyes were watching God for high school students, which includes biographical background on the author, explanations of various literary devices and techniques, and literary criticism for the novice reader"--Provided by publisher.
Cynthia Rylant (Library of Author Biographies)
by Alice B. McGinty
Discusses the life and work of author Cynthia Rylant, including her writing process and methods, inspirations, a critical discussion of her books, biographical timeline, and awards.
Thomas Paine and His Common Sense Author and Thinker American Revolution Grade 4 Biography Children's Biographies
Langston Hughes (Writers and Their Work (Hardcover))
by Maurice O Wallace
"A biography of writer Langston Hughes that describes his era, his major works--especially his most famous and influential prose and poetry, his life, and and the legacy of his writing"--Provided by publisher.
Jack London (Biography (Lerner Hardcover))
by Thomas Streissguth
Varian Fry (Raintree Fusion) (Raintree Fusion: American History Through Primary Sources )
by Sean Stewart Price
Mark Twain Along the Mississippi (In the Footsteps of American Heroes)
by Wayne Youngblood
Highlights the life and accomplishments of the woman who used her experiences growing up in a pioneer household in the nineteenth century to write a series of classic children's novels, including "Little House on the Prairie."
Children's author, Yoshiko Uchida, describes growing up in Berkeley, California, as a Nisei, second generation Japanese American, and her family's internment in a Nevada concentration camp during World War II.
All About Authors tells the story of some of our best-loved writers, drawing on a wide range of sources to explore their life, what influences them and their inspirational approaches to writing Each book: - Focuses on modern best selling authors and uses a variety of text types to give a full life picture - Includes interview sections with the authors - Sets the writer's in context and lists their works - Includes factfiles, quote boxes and information books - Contains a timeline, glossary and i...
Writer's Notebook Pack A (Savvy: Writer's Notebook)
by Rebecca Langston-George, Heather E Schwartz, Laura Purdie Salas, and Nadia Higgins
-- Focuses on the lives and accomplishments of prominent Hispanic men and women-- Underscores the important influence Hispanics have had on world culture-- Each in-depth biography is lavishly illustrated with photographs
Louisa May Alcott is best known for penning Little Women, but few are aware of the experience that influenced her writing most-her time as a nurse during the Civil War. Caring for soldiers' wounds and writing letters home for them inspired a new realism in her work. When her own letters home were published as Hospital Sketches, she had her first success as a writer. The acclaim for her new writing style inspired her to use this approach in Little Women, which was one of the first novels to be se...