Discusses the life and work of the noted black writer.

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.

Chronicles the life of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, discussing her marriage, the kidnapping of her son, her search for her own identity, and other related topics.

Haunted and haunting, Jones's memoir tells the story of a young, black, gay man from the South as he fights to carve out a place for himself, within his family, within his country, within his own hopes, desires, and fears. Through a series of vignettes that chart a course across the American landscape, Jones draws readers into his boyhood and adolescence--into tumultuous relationships with his mother and grandmother, into passing flings with lovers,...

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

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...