Recommended Biographies for Macomb High School
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BIOGRAPHY |
AUTHOR |
TITLE |
| Aaron, Hank | Aaron, Hank | I Had a Hammer |
| Adams, Abigail | Bober, Natalie | Abigail Adams: witness to a Revolution |
| Adams, Ansel | Adams, Ansel | Ansel Adams, an autobiography |
| Adams, Henry | Adams, Henry | The education of Henry Adams |
| Alexandra, Empress | Massie, Robert K. | Nicholas and Alexandra |
| Allende, Isabel | Allende, Isabel | Paula |
| American Service Personell | Edelman, Bernard | Dear America: Letters Home From Vietnam |
| Anderson, Terry | Anderson, Terry | Den of lions |
| Angelou, Maya | Angelou, Maya | I know why the caged bird sings |
| Armstrong, Louis | Brown, Sandford | Louis Armstrong |
| Armstrong, Louis | Collier, James Lincoln | Louis Armstrong: an American Success story |
| Ashe, Arthur | Ashe, Arthur | Days of Grace: a memoir |
| Bird, Larry | Bird, Larry | Drive: the story of my life |
| Black Elk | Black Elk | Black Elk speaks |
| Borden, Lizzie | Spiering, Frank | Lizzie |
| Bourke-White, Margaret | Bourke-White, Margaret | Portrait of Myself |
| Bradley, Bill | Bradley, Bill | Time present, time past |
| Brave Bird, Mary | Brave Bird, Mary | Lakota woman |
| Brooks, Gwendolyn | Kent, George | A life of Gwendolyn Brooks |
| Brown, Claude | Brown, Claude | Manchild in the promised land |
| Burch, Jennings | Burch, Jennings | They Cage the animals at night |
| Cary, Lorene | Cary Lorene | Black Ice |
| Cassatt, Mary | Mathews, Nancy Mowll | Mary Cassatt: a life |
| Chambers, Veronica | Chambers, Veronica | Mama's Girl |
| Churchill, Winston Spencer | Manchester, William Raymond | The last lion, Winston Spencer Churchill |
| Clinton, Bill | Maraniss, David | First in his class: a biography of Bill Clinton |
| Columbus, Christopher | Meltzer, Milton | Columbus and the world around him |
| Conway, Jill K. | Conway, Jill K. | The road from Coorain |
| Craven, Margaret | Craven, Margaret | Again calls the owl |
| Curie, Marie | Sheean, Vincent | Madame Curie: a biography by Eve Curie |
| Custer, George Armstrong | Barnett, Louise K. | Touched by fire |
| Darwin, Charles | Milner, Richard | Charles Darwin: evolution of a naturalist |
| De Mille, Agnes | De Mille, Agnes | Dance to the piper |
| Degas, Edgar | Meyer, Susan E. | Edgar Degas |
| Delany, Bessie | Delany, Sadie | Having our say: the Delany sisters' first 100 years |
| Dickinson, Emily | Longsworth, Polly | The world of Emily Dickinson |
| Duncan, Lois | Duncan, Lois | Chapters: my growth as a writer |
| Earhart, Amelia | Rich, Doris L. | Amelia Earhart: a biography |
| Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain | Bradford, Sarah | Elizabeth: a biography of Britain's Queen |
| Einstein, Albert | Levinger, Elma Ehrlich | Albert Einstein |
| Feynman, Richard | Feynman, Richard P. | Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman: Adventures of a Curious Character |
| Fitzgerald, Zelda | Milford, Nancy | Zelda: a biography |
| Ford, Gerald R. | Cannon, James M. | Time and chance: Gerald Ford's appointment with history |
| Foster, Rory C. | Foster, Rory C. | I never met an animal I didn't like |
| Frank, Anne | Frank, Anne | Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Woman |
| Franklin, Aretha | Gourse, Leslie | Aretha Franklin: Lady Soul |
| Franklin, Benjamin | Franklin, Benjamin | The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin |
| Freud, Sigmund | Klagsbrun, Francine | Sigmund Freud |
| Galilei, Galileo | Reston, James | Galileo: a life |
| Gallaudet, T. H. | Neimark, Anne E. | A deaf child listened |
| Gandhi, Mahatma | Gandhi, Mahatma | All men are brothers: life and thoughts of Mahatma Gandhi as told in his own words |
| Gandhi, Mahatma | Shirer, William L. | Gandhi, a memoir |
| Gibson, Josh | Ribowsky, Mark | The power and the darkness: the life of Josh Gibson in the shadows of the game |
| Gilbreth, Frank Bunker | Gilbreth, Frank B. | Cheaper by the dozen |
| Goodall, Jane | Goodall, Jane | Through a Window |
| Grant, Ulysses S. | Catton, Bruce | Grant takes command |
| Gunther, John | Gunther, John | Death Be Not Proud |
| Guthrie, Woody | Guthrie, Woody |
Bound for Glory Woody Guthrie: a life |
| Hansberry, Lorraine | Hansberry, Lorraine | To be young, gifted, and black |
| Hart, Moss | Hart, Moss | Act one: an autobiography |
| Hawking, S.W. | McDaniel, Melissa | Stephen Hawking |
| Hellman, Lillian | Hellman, Lillian | Three |
| Hemingway, Ernest | Hemingway, Ernest | A moveable Feast |
| Hemingway, Papa | Hotchner, A.E. | Papa Hemingway: a personal memoir |
| Herriot, James | Herriot, James | All Creatures and Small series |
| Ho, Chi Minh | Halberstam, David | Ho |
| Hockenberry, John | Hockenberry, John | Moving Violations: War Zones, Wheelchairs, and Declarations of Independence |
| Holiday, Billie | De Veaux, Alexis | Don't explain: a song of Billie holiday |
| Hooks, Bell | Hooks, Bell | Bone black: memories of girlhood |
| Houston, Jeanne Wakatsuki | Houston, Jeanne Wakatsuki | Farewell to Manzanar |
| Hubble, Edwin Powell | Christianson, Gale E. | Edwin Hubble: mariner of the nebulae |
| Hussein, Saddam | Stefoff, Rebecca | Saddam Hussein: absolute ruler of Iraq |
| Huxley, Elspeth Joscelin Grant | Huxley, Elspeth Joscelin Grant | The flame trees of Thika: memories of an African childhood |
| Iacocca, Lee A. | Iacocca, Lee A. | Iacocca: an autobiography |
| Jackson, Andrew | Meltzer, Milton | Andrew Jackson and his America |
| Jackson, Jesse L. | Haskins, James | I am somebody! |
| Jefferson, Thomas | Bober, Natalie | Thomas Jefferson: man on a mountain |
| Jefferson, Thomas | Brodie, Fawn McKay | Thomas Jefferson: an intimate history |
| Jiang, Ji-Li | Jiang, Ji-Li | Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution |
| Joan of Arc | Brooks, Polly Schoyer | Beyond the myth: the story of Joan of Arc |
| Johnson, Samuel | Boswell, James | The life of Samuel Johnson |
| Jones, John Paul | Morison, Samuel Eliot | John Paul Jones: a sailor's biography |
| Karr, Mary | Karr, Mary | The Liar's Club: A Memoir |
| Keller, Helen | Keller, Helen | The Story of My Life |
| Kennedy, John F. | Manchester, William | One brief shining moment |
| Khanga, Yelena | Jacoby, Susan | Soul to Soul: A Black Russian American Family, 1865-1992Kincaid, Jamaica |
| Kherdian, Veron | Kherdian, David | The road from home; the story of an Armenian girl |
| Kincaid, Jamaica | Kincaid, Jamaica | My Brother |
| King, Martin Luther | Bennett, Lerone | What manner of man: a biography of Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| King, Martin Luther | Oates, Stephen B. | Let the trumpet sound: the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| King, Martin Luther | Schulke, Flip | King remembered |
| Kingston, Maxine Hong | Kingston, Maxine Hong | The woman warrior: memories of a girlhood among ghosts |
| Kinmont, Jill | Valens, Evans G. | The other side of the mountain |
| Koehn, Ilse | Koehn, Ilse | Mischling, second degree: my childhood in Nazi Germany |
| Kovic, Ron | Kovic, Ron | Born on the fourth of July |
| Kubler-Ross, Elisabeth | Kubler-Ross, Elisabeth | Guest: the life of Elisabeth Kubler-Ross |
| Lee, Robert E. | Marrin, Albert | Virginia's general: Robert E. Lee and the Civil War |
| Lewis, Meriwether | Ambrose, Stephen E. | Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the opening of the American West |
| Lincoln, Abraham | Sandburg, Carl | Abraham Lincoln: the prairie years |
| Lindbergh, Charles | Denenberg, Barry | An American hero: the true story of Charles A. Lindbergh |
| Lindbergh, Charles | Lindbergh, Charles | "We" |
| Louis, Joe | Mead, Chris | Champion--Joe Louis, black hero in white America |
| Lund, Eric | Lund, Doris Herold | Eric |
| MacArthur, Douglas | Manchester, William | American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur |
| McBride, James | McBride, James | The color of water: a black man's tribute to his white mother |
| McCandless, Christopher | Krakauer, Jon | Into the Wild |
| McCourt, Frank | McCourt, Frank | Angela's Ashes: a memoir |
| Malcolm X | Malcolm X | The autobiography of Malcolm X |
| Mandela, Nelson | Otfinoski, Steven | Nelson Mandela: the fight against apartheid |
| Mathabane, Mark | Mathabane, Mark | Kaffir boy: the true story of a black youth's coming of age in Apartheid South Africa |
| Mays, Willie | Mays, Willie | Say hey |
| Mead, Margaret | Rice, Edward | Margaret Mead: a portrait |
| Meir, Golda Mabovitz | Mann, Peggy | Golda: the life of Israel's Prime Minister |
| Melville, Herman | Stefoff, Rebecca | Herman Melville |
| Monroe, Marilyn | Lefkowitz, Frances | Marilyn Monroe |
| Moody, Ann | Moody, Ann | Coming of Age in Mississippi |
| Mowat, Farley | Mowat, Farley | Born naked |
| Mussolini, Benito | Hoyt, Edwin Palmer | Mussolini's empire: the rise and fall of the fascist vision |
| Nicholas II, Emperor of Russia | Massie, Robert K. | Nicholas and Alexandra |
| Nixon, Richard | Ambrose, Stephen E. | Nixon |
| Parks, Gordon | Parks, Gordon | A choice of weapons |
| Parks, Rosa | Parks, Rosa | Quiet strength; the faith, the hope, and the heart of a woman who changed a nation |
| Piccolo, Brian | Morris, Jeannie | Brian Piccolo: a short season |
| Plath, Sylvia | Stevenson, Anne | Bitter fame: a life of Sylvia Plath |
| Powell, Colin L. | Roth, David | Sacred Honor |
| Presley, Elvis | Guralnick, Peter | Last Train to Memphis |
| Puller, Lewis B. | Puller, Lewis B. | Fortunate son: the autobiography of Lewis B. Puller, Jr. |
| Radner, Gilda | Radner, Gilda | It's always something |
| Rather, Dan | Rather, Dan | The camera never blinks twice |
| Reiss, Johanna | Reiss, Johanna | The upstairs room |
| Reno, Janet | Anderson, Paul | Janet Reno doing the right thing |
| Revere, Paul | Forbes, Esther | Paul Revere & the world he lived in |
| Riddles, Libby | Riddles, Libby | Race across Alaska: first woman to win the Iditarod tells her story |
| Robinson, Jackie | Robinson, Jackie | I never had it made |
| Romanov, Tsar Nicholas & Tsarina Alexandra | Massie, Robert K. | Nicholas and Alexandra |
| Roosevelt, Eleanor | Cook, Blanche Wiesen | Eleanor Roosevelt: Vol. 1: 1884-1933 |
| Roosevelt, Eleanor & Franklin | Lash, Joseph P. | Eleanor and Franklin: the story of their relationship |
| Rosenberg, Ethel | Meeropol, Robert | We are your sons: the legacy of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg |
| Ruth, Babe | Creamer, Robert W. | Babe: the legend comes to life |
| Salk, Jonas | Sherrow, Victoria | Jonas Salk |
| Sandburg, Carl | Sandburg, Carl | Always the young strangers |
| Schroeder, Pat | Schroeder, Pat | Champion of the great American family |
| Senesh, Hannah | Atkinson, Linda | In kindling flame: the story of Hannah Senesh |
| Shaw, Robert Gould | Burchard, Peter | "We'll stand by the Union" |
| Steinbeck, John | Ferrell, Keith | John Steinbeck, the voice of the land |
| Sitting Bull, Dakota Chief | Vestal, Stanley | Sitting Bull, champion of the Sioux |
| Stalin, Joseph | Marrin, Albert | Stalin |
| Steffan, Joseph | Steffan, Joseph | Honor Bound |
| Stein, Gertrude | Stein, Gertrude | The autobiography of Alice B. Toklas |
| Stowe, Harriet Beecher | Coil, Suzanne M. | Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| Stowe, Harriet Beecher | Hedrick, Joan D. | Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| Taylor, David | Taylor, David | Is there a doctor in the zoo? |
| Toklas, Alice B. | Stein, Gertrude | The autobiography of Alice B. Toklas |
| Tolkien, J.R.R. | Carpenter, Humphrey | Tolkien: a biography |
| Tolkien, J.R.R. | Hammond, Wayne | Tolkien, artist & illustrator |
| Truman, Harry S. | McCullough, David G. | Truman |
| Truman, Harry S. | Miller, Merle | Plain speaking: an oral biography of Harry S. Truman |
| Tubman, Harriet | Petry, Ann | Harriet Tubman, conductor on the Underground Railroad |
| Tubman, Harriet | Swift, Hildegarde Hoyt | The railroad to freedom |
| Turow, Scott | Turow, Scott | One L. |
| Twain, Mark | Meltzer, Milton | Mark Twain: a writer's life |
| Van Devanter, Lynda | Van Devanter, Lynda | Home before morning : the story of an Army nurse in Vietnam |
| Victoria, Queen of Great Britain | Strachey, Lytton | Queen Victoria |
| Waite, Terry | Waite, Terry | Taken on trust |
| Washington, Booker T. | Washington, Booker T. | Up from slavery |
| White, Ryan | White, Ryan | Ryan White: my own story |
| Whitman, Walt | Reef, Catherine | Walt Whitman |
| Wiesel, Elie | Wiesel, Elie | All rivers run to the sea |
| Wilder, Laura Ingalls | Zochert, Donald | Laura: the life of Laura Ingalls Wilder |
| Wolff, Tobias | Wolff, Tobias | This boy's life: a memoir |
| Wright, Richard | Wright, Richard | Black boy, a record of childhood and youth |
| Yeager, Chuck | Yeager, Chuck | Yeager: an autobiography |
| Yeltsin, Boris | Otfinoski, Steven | Boris Yeltsin and the rebirth of Russia |
| Zaharias, Babe Didrikson | Cayleff, Susan E. | Babe: the life and legend of Babe Zaharias |
(This list does not include
all of the biographies available in MJSHS library, only those recommended in Wilson’s
Senior High School Library Catalog, Outstanding Books for the College
Bound & Lifelong Learners (ALA), Best Books for Senior High Readers
and other library resources.)
This page was last
updated February 17, 2009.
Page design by Nancy Bell.
Copyright 2000. Macomb High School.