A biography of the nineteenth-century author famous for the novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" which denounced slavery and intensified the disagreement between the North and South.

A biography of the American humorist and writer whose writing greatly reflected the events of his life particularly his boyhood in Hannibal, Missouri.

Presents a brief, illustrated, biography of Marc Brown, author of the popular books "Arthur", providing information on their childhood, and education, and writing career.

Chronicles the life and career of American writer Rick Riordan.

Autobiographical stories about growing up as the son of Mexican immigrants in California.

Biography of Louisa May Alcott, discussing the disparities between her real life and the one depicted in her best-selling novel "Little Women," arguing that the book was written at the urging of Alcott's father, with whom she shared a contentious, but uncommonly strong bond.

The author of the Newbery Honor Book, "The Dark Thirty," describes her life, how she became a writer, how her family helps with her writing, and how she gets her ideas.

A memoir in which the author, the son of a Mexican father and Anglo mother, recalls the struggles he faced both within and outside his family as a child of mixed cultures, languages, and heritage.

Presents a biography of twentieth-century American author Alice Walker, features literary criticism of her work, and includes a chronology of her life, and a bibliography of her writings

"Iris Chang's best-selling book The Rape of Nanking forever changed the way we view the Second World War in Asia. It all began with a photo of a river choked with the bodies of hundreds of Chinese civilians that shook Iris to her core. Who were these people? Why had this happened and how could their story have been lost to history? She could not shake that image from her head. She could not forget what she had seen. A few short years later, Chang...