Im doing a report on anyone who has a biography OR autobiography about them. Any suggestions?

Question

Ok, doing on a report on someone who has a biography or autobiography ( a book ) about them. Right now, I just need some suggestions about who i should write about such as Lincoln or George Washington.I prefer a woman but I'll accept all.

Thanks for trying to help

♥Meep_Meep♥

Im in 7th grade :)

Someone who had made a difference

Answer 1

Here are some suggestions of good books.

Alcott, Louisa May.
Louisa May Alcott (Gr. 6-10) Chelsea House, 1986.
BBJHR Invincible Louisa; The Story of the Author of Little Women by Cornelia Meigs. (Gr 6-9) Little, 1968. BBJHR
Angelou, Maya.
All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes by Maya Angelou. (Secondary) Random House, 1986. v. 5 of her autobiography. SHC

Gather Together in My Name by Maya Angelou. (Secondary) Random House, 1974. v. 2 of her autobiography. SHC

The Heart of a Woman by Maya Angelou. (Secondary) Random House, 1981. v. 4 of her autobiography. SHC

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou. (Secondary) Random House, 1970. v. 1 of her autobiog. SHC

Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas (Secondary) Random House, 1976. v. 3 of her autobiog. SHC

Asimov, Isaac.
I. Asimov; A Memoir By Isaac Asimov. New York: Doubleday, 1994. (Secondary) No review.

In Joy Still Felt; The Autobiography of Isaac Asimov By Isaac Asimov. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1980. (Secondary) No review.

In Memory Yet Green By Isaac Asimov. New York: Doubleday, 1979. (Secondary) No review.

Baldwin, James.
James Baldwin by Lisa Rosset. (Gr. 8-10) Chelsea House, 1989. BBJHR

Baraka, Imamu Amiri [LeRoi Jones].
The Autobiography of LeRoi Jones/ Amiri Baraka By Amiri Baraka. (Secondary)Freundlich Bks., 1984. SHC.

Blume, Judy.
Judy Blume's Story by Betsey Lee. (Grade 6-9) Dillon, 1981. BBJHR

Brontes.
The Brontes Grades 7-12. Rourke, 1989. BBJHR

The Life of Charlotte Bronte by Elizabeth C. Gaskell. (Secondary) Penguin Books. First pub. in 1857. SHC.

Buck, Pearl.
Pearl Buck (Grade 7-10) Chelsea House, 1988. BBJHR

Camus, Albert.
Albert Camus by Herbert Lottman. (Secondary) Doubleday, 1979. SHC

Capote, Truman.
One Christmas By Truman Capote. (Secondary) Random House, 1983. SHC.

Cather, Willa.
Willa; The Life of Willa Cather By Phyllis Robinson. (Secondary) Doubleday, 1983. SHC.

Chaucer, Geoffrey.
The Life and Times of Chaucer By John Gardner. (Secondary) Knopf, 1977. SHC

Christie, Agatha.
Agatha Christie; A Biography By Janet Morgan. (Secondary) Knopf, 1985. SHC

Churchill, Winston.
Winston S. Churchill By Randolph Churchill. (Secondary) Houghton Mifflin, 1966-67. 2 v. SHC

Clark, Arthur C.
Arthur C. Clarke; The Authorized Biography (Secondary) By Neil McAleer. Chicago: Contemporary Books, 1992. No review.

Cleary, Beverly.
A Girl from Yamhill: A Memoir (Grade 6-12) Morrow, 1988. BBJHR

My Own Two Feet; A Memoir By Beverly Cleary. (Grade 6-12) New York. Morrow, 1995. Continuation of A Girl from Yamhill.

Cormier, Robert.
I Have Words to Spend; Reflections of a Small Town Editor By Robert Cormier. Delacorte Pr., 1991. No review.

Craven, Margaret.
Again Calls the Owl By Margaret Craven. (Secondary) Putnam, 1980. SHC

Dahl, Roald.
Boy; Tales of Childhood by Roald Dahl. (Grade 7-12). Farrar, 1984.

Dickens, Charles.
Dickens; A Life by Norman MacKenzie. (Secondary) By Norman and Jeanne MacKensie. Oxford, 1979. SHC

Dickinson, Emily.
Emily Dickinson Chelsea House, 1990. BBJHR

Douglass, Frederick.
The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass; His Early Life as a Slave... By Frederick Douglass. Collier, 1962. SHC

DuBois, W. E. B.
The Autobiography of W. E. B. DuBois By W. E. B. DuBois. (Secondary) Int. Pubs., 1968. SHC

W. E. B. DuBois By Virginia Hamilton. (Secondary) Crowell, 1972. SHC

Dunbar, Paul Laurence.
Paul Laurence Dunbar (Grade 7-12) Chelsea House, 1988. BBJHR

Duncan, Lois.
Chapters; My Growth as a Writer (Grade 7-12) Little, 1982. BBJHR

Ellison, Ralph.
Ralph Ellison; Author (Grade 6-10) Chelsea House, 1988. BBJHR

Fitzgerald, F. Scott.
F. Scott Fitzgerald; A Biography (Secondary) By Andre Le Vot. Doubleday, 1983. SHC

Invented Lives; F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald. By James Mellow. (Secondary) Houghton Mifflin, 1984. SHC

Fritz, Jean.
Homesick; My Own Story (Grade 7-10) Putnam, 1982. BBJHR

Surprising Myself By Jean Fritz. Katonah, NY: R. C. Owen Pub., 1992. No Review.

Hansberry, Lorraine.
To Be Young, Gifted and Black By Lorraine Hansberry. (Secondary) Prentice-Hall, 1969. New American Library pa. SHC.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel.
Nathaniel Hawthorne By James Mellow. (Secondary) Houghton Mifflin, 1980. SHC.

Hemingway, Ernest.
Ernest Hemingway; Selected Letters Ed. by Carlos Baker. (Secondary) Scribner, 1981. SHC.

Hentoff, Nat.
Boston Boy By Nat Hentoff. (Secondary) Knopf, 1986. SHC.

Herriot, James.
All Creatures Great and Small By James Herriot. (Secondary) St. Martins, 1972. SHC

Hughes, Langston.
Langston Hughes; A Biography (Grade 7-10) By Milton Meltzer. Harper, 1968. BBJHR

Langston Hughes By Jack Rummel. (Grade 8-10) Chelsea House, 1988. BBJHR

The Big Sea; An Autobiography By Langston Hughes. Hill & Wang. First pub. in 1940 by Knopf. SHC.

Hurston, Zora Neale.
Dust Tracks on a Road; An Autobiography (Secondary) U. of Ill Press. pa. First pub. in 1942 by Lippincott. SHC.

Johnson, Samuel.
The Life of Samuel Johnson By James Boswell. (Secondary) Penguin Bks. pa. First published in 1791. SHC

Keats, Ezra Jack.
Ezra Jack Keats: A Biography with Illustrations. By
Dean Engel. Notable Children's Book; 1996.

Kerr, M. E.
Me Me Me Me Me; Not a Novel by M. E. Kerr. (Grade 7-12) Harper, 1983.

King, Stephen.
Stephen King By Amy and Marjorie Keyishian. NY: Chelsea House, 1995. No review.

Kingston, Maxine Hong.
The Woman Warrior; Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts By Maxine Hong Kingston. (Secondary) Knopf, 1976. SHC.

Lazaraus, Emma.
Emma Lazarus by Diane Lefer. Chelsea House, 1988. BBJHR

Lewis, C. S.
C. S. Lewis; A Biography By Roger Lancelyn Green. (Secondary) Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1974. SHC

Clive Staples Lewis; A Dramatic Life by William Griffin. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1986. No review.

Little, Jean.
Little by Little; A Writer's Education (Grade 6-9) Viking, 1988. BBJHR

L'Engle, Madeleine.
Madeleine L'Engle; Author of A Wrinkle in Time By Doreen Gonzales. New York: Maxwell Macmillan, 1991. No review.

London, Jack.
Jack London; An American Myth By John Perry. (Secondary) Nelson-Hall, 1981. SHC.

Mailer, Norman.
Mailer; His Life and Times Edited by Peter Manso. (Secondary) Simon & Schuster, 1985. SHC

Mathabane, Mark.
Kaffir Boy; The True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa (Secondary) Macmillan, 1986. SHC.

Meltzer, Milton.
Starting from Home; A Writer's Beginnings (GRade 7-12) Viking, 1988. BBJHR

Millay, Edna St. Vincent.
Edna St. Vincent Millay by Carolyn Daffron. (Grade 7-12) Chelsea House, 1989. BBJHR

Naylor, Phyllis.
How I Came to Be a Writer By Phyllis Naylor. Rev. & expanded ed. New Yor: Aladdin, 1987. No review.

Rylant, Cynthia.
But I'll Be Back Again; An Album by Cynthia Rylant. (Grade 6-10) Watts, 1989. BBJHR

Sandburg, Carl.
Carl Sandburg by Jeffrey Hacker. (Grade 7-10) Watts, 1984. BBJHR

Prairie-Town Boy by Carl Sandburg. (Grade 7-9) Harcourt, 1977. BBJHR

Always the Young Strangers By Carol Sandburg. (Secondary) Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1953. SHC

Shakespeare, William.
Shakespeare (Grade 7-12) by Christopher Martin. Rourke, 1989. BBJHR

Singer, Isaac Bashevis.
Isaac Bashevis Singer; The Story of a Storyteller (Grade 6-9) By Paul Kresh. Lodestar, 1984. BBJHR

A Day of Pleasure; Stories of a Boy Growing Up in Warsaw By Isaac Bahsevis Singer. (Grade 6-8) Farrar, 1969. BBJHR

Stein, Gertrude.
Gertrude Stein by Ann La Farge. (Grade 7-12) Chelsea House, 1988. BBJHR

Steinbeck, John.
John Steinbeck; The Voice of the Land By Keith Ferrell. Evans, 1986. BBJHR

The True Adventures of John Steinbeck By Jackson Benson. (Secondary) Viking, 1983. SHC

Stowe, Harriet Beecher.
Harriet Beecher Stowe; Author and Abolitionist by Robert Jakoubek. (Grade 6-9) Chelsea House, 1989. BBJHR

Sutcliff, Rosemary.
Blue Remembered Hills By Rosemary Sutcliff. (Secondary) Morrow, 1984. SHC

Thoreau, Henry David.
Henry David Thoreau; Writer and Rebel By Philip Van Doren Stern. (Grade 7-12) Harper, 1972. BBJHR

Thurber, James.
Thurber; A Biography By Burton Bernstein. (Secondary) Dodd, Mead 1975. SHC

Tolkien, J. R. R.
Tolkien; A Biography By Humphrey Carpenter. (Secondary) Houghton Mifflin, 1977. Ballantine Bks. SHC.

Twain, Mark.
Mark Twain; A Writer's Life (Grade 7-12) By Milton Meltzer. Watts, 1985. BBJHR

The Autobiography of Mark Twain (Secondary) Harper & Row, 1959. SHC

Verne, Jules.
Jules-Verne By Jean Jules-Verne. (Secondary) Taplinger, 1976. SHC.

Voltaire.
Voltaire; A Biography By Hayden Mason. (Secondary) Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1981. SHC

Vonnegut, Kurt.
Palm Sunday; An Autobiographical Collage By Kurt Vonnegut. (Secondary) Delacorte Press, 1981. SHC

Wells, H. G.
H. G. Wells By Christopher Martin. (Grade 7-12) Rourke, 1989. BBJHR

Wheatley, Phillis.
Phillis Wheatley By Merle Richmond. Chelsea House, 1988. BBJHR

Wilder, Laura Ingalls.
West from Home; Letters of Laura Ingalls Wilder, San Francisco, 1915. (Grade 7-10) Harper, 1974. BBJHR

On the Way Home; The Diary of a Trip from South Dakota to Mansfield, Missouri, in 1894 By Laura Ingalls Wiler. (Grade 7-12) Harper, 1962. BBJHR

Whitman, Walt.
Walt Whitman By Catherine Reef. Notable Children's Book
Award; 1996.

Wright, Richard.
Richard Wright By Joan Urban. (Grade 7-10) Chelsea House, 1989. BBJHR

Black Boy By Richard Wright. (Grades 10-12) Harper & Row, 1969. BlLitHSS

Answer 2

how about Ibn al-Haytham? He was an eleventh-century Muslim scholar who overcame bouts of mental illness to develop the scientific method.

Born in Basra (located in what is now Iraq) in 965, Ibn al-Haytham first studied theology, trying unsuccessfully to resolve the differences between the Shi'ah and Sunnah sects. He turned his attention to the works of the ancient Greeks, including Aristotle, Euclid, and Archimedes. He was the first person to apply algebra to geometry, founding the branch of mathematics known as analytic geometry.

He traveled to Egypt to build a dam on the Nile, failed, and ended up imprisoned in Cairo for ten years. During this time he developed the idea of systematically testing hypotheses with experiments—the core of the scientific method. He wrote more than 200 books and treatises in his lifetime.

A good biography is "Ibn al-Haytham: First Scientist" by Bradley Steffens. It should be in your local library. You can find reviews of the book and a sample chapter at http://www.ibnalhaytham.net/

Answer 3

What grade are you in? Maya Angelou's autobios are supposed to be good, if you're in high school.

Anne Frank's A Diary of a Young Girl is a classic, not sure it really qualifies as an autobiography, though..

Answer 4

I would agree with Helen Keller or Anne Frank. You could also do one on Helen Keller's teacher by Helen Keller herself: Teacher: Anne Sullivan Macy by Helen Keller.

I also suggest you do one on the mother of Mary Shelley (Frankenstein). A title is Mary Wollstonecraft by Janet Todd; Mary Wollstonecraft is the mother of feminism and wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Women. There are probably other biographies of her, too.

There are other women you could write about like Louisa May Alcott, whose mother was instrumental in the beginnings of the social services; Louisa May Alcott by Madeleine B. Stern.

You could do one on Clara Barton the founder of the Red Cross; for instance from Woman of Valor: Clara Barton and the Civil War by Stephen B. Oates.

You could also do one on Florence Nightingale who was instrumental in bringing about more sanitary conditions in nursing (among other things) - Heart and Soul: The Story of Florence Nightingale by Gena K. Gorrell.

Another suggestion would be to write about one of the most famous writers of all time, Jane Austen, from: A Memoir of Jane Austen by James Edward Austen-Leigh (her nephew).

Another suggestion would be to write about another great author - Charlotte Bronte (The Life of Charlotte Bronte by Elizabeth Gaskell; her fellow writer and friend).

Answer 5

Alex: The Life Of A Child by Frank Duford.

She died too young to really "make a difference" on a large scale, but if you read it you can see the impact she had on everyone who knew her. I read that book when I was in fifth grade, and it's stayed with me nearly ten years later.

Answer 6

My first choice would be Amelia Earhart. She had such an exciting life and is an inspiration.
Second choice would be Pocahontas. Her story is much more then the cartoon or elementary school text books tell us.

Answer 7

On Alexander Flemings or Benjamin Franklin.-congratulations.-

Answer 8

The autobiography of Helen Keller is great. Inspirational and not too long.

Answer 9

i agree with ann frank it is a great story many ups and downs

Answer 10

something braille, i can't remember his first name... but it is a good book, also helen keller, louisa may alcott are also good