Biographies
Resource Information
The concept Biographies represents the subject, aboutness, idea or notion of resources found in Newburyport Public Library.
The Resource
Biographies
Resource Information
The concept Biographies represents the subject, aboutness, idea or notion of resources found in Newburyport Public Library.
- Label
- Biographies
- Source
- lcgft
A sample of Items that share the Concept Biographies See All
Context
Context of BiographiesSubject of
No resources found
No enriched resources found
- "Smelly" Kelly and his super senses : how James Kelly's nose saved the New York City subway
- 100 real-life tales of Black girl magic
- 13 American women who changed the world
- 13 women who changed history
- 50 architects you should know
- 50 modern artists you should know
- A boy, a mouse, and a spider : the story of E.B. White
- A dangerous woman : American beauty, noted philanthropist, Nazi collaborator : the life of Florence Gould
- A farewell to Gabo and Mercedes : a son's memoir of Gabriel GarcĂa Márquez and Mercedes Barcha
- A forgotten hero : Folke Bernadotte, the Swedish humanitarian who rescued 30,000 people from the Nazis
- A girl named Helen : the true story of Helen Keller
- A girl named Hillary : the true story of Hillary D. R. Clinton
- A girl named Misty : the true story of Misty Copeland
- A girl named Rosita : the story of Rita Moreno: actor, singer, dancer, trailblazer!
- A guest of the Reich : the story of American heiress Gertrude Legendre's dramatic captivity and escape from Nazi Germany
- A honeybee heart has five openings : a year of keeping bees
- A kids' guide to America's first ladies
- A kind of mirraculas paradise : a true story about schizophrenia
- A lady has the floor : Belva Lockwood speaks out for women's rights
- A mind in motion : the art of Charles Forrester
- A puppy for Helen Keller
- A revolution in color : the world of John Singleton Copley
- A ride to remember : a civil rights story
- A season in the sun : the rise of Mickey Mantle
- A seat at the table : the Nancy Pelosi story
- A self-made man : the political life of Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1849
- A splendid savage : the restless life of Frederick Russell Burnham
- A street cat named Bob : and how he saved my life
- A thousand sisters : the heroic airwomen of the Soviet Union in World War II
- A time to act : John F. Kennedy's big speech
- A truck full of money
- A twenty minute silence followed by applause
- A wild idea
- AOC : the fearless rise and powerful resonance of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
- Abandon me : memoirs
- Abused : surviving sexual assault and a toxic gymnastics culture
- Accidental saints : finding God in all the wrong people
- Ada Lovelace
- Ada and the number-crunching machine
- Adam Smith : father of economics
- Adnan's story : the search for truth and justice after Serial
- African samurai : the true story of Yasuke, a legendary black warrior in feudal Japan
- After Andy : adventures in Warhol land
- After Emily : two remarkable women and the legacy of America's greatest poet
- Agatha Christie
- Agatha Christie : a mysterious life
- Agent 110 : an American spymaster and the German resistance in WWII
- Agent Sonya : Moscow's most daring wartime spy
- Agent Sonya : Moscow's most daring wartime spy
- Al Capone : his life, legacy, and legend
- Alabama spitfire : the story of Harper Lee and To Kill a Mockingbird
- Alan Turing
- Alex Haley and the books that changed a nation
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
- Alice Adams : portrait of a writer
- All blood runs red : the legendary life of Eugene Bullard-- boxer, pilot, soldier, spy
- All creatures great and small
- All in a drop : how Antony van Leeuwenhoek discovered an invisible world
- All that heaven allows : a biography of Rock Hudson
- All the frequent troubles of our days : the true story of the American woman at the heart of the German resistance to Hitler
- All the frequent troubles of our days : the true story of the American woman at the heart of the German resistance to Hitler
- All the lives we ever lived : seeking solace in Virginia Woolf
- All the things we never knew
- Almost American girl : an illustrated memoir
- Althea Gibson : the story of tennis' fleet-of-foot girl
- Always looking up : Nancy Grace Roman, astronomer
- Always smile : Carley Allison's secrets for laughing, loving and living
- Amazons, abolitionists, and activists : a graphic history of women's fight for their rights
- Amelia Earhart
- Amelia Earhart : aviation pioneer
- American Eden : David Hosack, botany, and medicine in the garden of the early republic
- American Olympians who changed the game
- American Pharoah : the untold story of the Triple Crown winner's legendary rise
- American Sanctuary : Mutiny, Martyrdom, And National Identity In The Age of Revolution
- American Ulysses : a life of Ulysses S. Grant
- American aristocrats : a family, a fortune, and the making of American capitalism
- American daughter : a memoir
- American heroes
- American oligarchs : the Kushners, the Trumps, and the marriage of money and power
- Among the living and the dead : a tale of exile and homecoming on the war roads of Europe
- An impeccable spy : Richard Sorge, Stalin's master agent
- An unconventional wife : the life of Julia Sorell Arnold
- And how are you, Dr. Sacks? : a biographical memoir of Oliver Sacks
- And then we danced : a voyage into the groove
- Andrea Dworkin : the feminist as revolutionary
- Andrew Jackson and the miracle of New Orleans : the battle that shaped America's destiny
- Andy Warhol
- Andy and Don : the making of a friendship and a classic American TV show
- Angels in the sky : how a band of volunteer airmen saved the new state of Israel
- Anne Frank
- Anne Frank : Holocaust diarist
- Anne Frank : the girl heard around the world
- Anthony Powell : dancing to the music of time
- Anybody's game : Kathryn Johnston, the first girl to play little league baseball
- Art is life : the life of artist Keith Haring
- Artists : their lives and works
- Astrid Lindgren
- Atticus Finch : the biography : Harper Lee, her father, and the making of an American icon
- Audrey Hepburn
- Autumn
- Autumn in Venice : Ernest Hemingway and his last muse
- Bach's musical universe : the composer and his work
- Bad boys of fashion : style rebels and renegades through the ages
- Bad princess : true tales from behind the tiara
- Balderdash! : John Newbery and the boisterous birth of children's books
- Ballad of the anarchist bandits : the crime spree that gripped Belle Époque Paris
- Bandit : a daughter's memoir
- Barnum : an American life
- Barracoon : the story of the last "black cargo"
- Bartali's bicycle : the true story of Gino Bartali, Italy's secret hero
- Baseball's leading lady : Effa Manley and the rise and fall of the Negro Leagues
- Battle for the big top
- Battle for the big top : P.T. Barnum, James Bailey, John Ringling, and the death-defying saga of the American circus
- Be a king : Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream and you
- Be free or die : the amazing story of Robert Smalls' escape from slavery to Union hero
- Be like the fox : Machiavelli's lifelong quest for freedom
- Beastie Boys book
- Beatrix Potter, scientist
- Beautiful on the outside : a memoir
- Beautiful shades of brown : the art of Laura Wheeler Waring
- Becoming Dr. Seuss : Theodor Geisel and the making of an American imagination
- Becoming Leonardo : an exploded view of the life of Leonardo da Vinci
- Becoming Madeleine : a biography of the author of A wrinkle in time by her granddaughters
- Before they were authors : famous authors as kids
- Behind the mask : the life of Vita Sackville-West
- Being Elvis : a lonely life
- Being Nixon : a man divided
- Being Wagner : the story of the most provocative composer who ever lived
- Belichick : the making of the greatest football coach of all time
- Benjamin Franklin
- Berenice Abbott : a life in photography
- Between the world and me
- Between them : remembering my parents
- Beyond : the astonishing story of the first human to leave our planet and journey into space
- Beyond the high blue air : a memoir
- Big machines : the story of Virginia Lee Burton
- Big science : Ernest Lawrence and the invention that launched the military-industrial complex
- Bill Marriott : success is never final : his life and the decisions that built a hotel empire
- Bill O'Reilly's Legends & lies : the real West
- Billie Holiday : the musician and the myth
- Billie Jean King
- Billy Martin : baseball's flawed genius
- Black Elk : the life of an American visionary
- Black Spartacus : the epic life of Toussaint Louverture
- Black like me
- Black radical : the life and times of William Monroe Trotter
- Blind man's bluff : a memoir
- Blood brothers : the fatal friendship of Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X
- Blood letters : the untold story of Lin Zhao, a martyr in Mao's China
- Blood moon : an American epic of war and splendor in the Cherokee Nation
- Bloom : a story of fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli
- Boardwalk babies
- Bobby Kennedy : a raging spirit
- Bobby Kennedy : the making of a liberal icon
- Bon Jovi : the story
- Bonnie and Clyde
- Born to be posthumous : the eccentric life and mysterious genius of Edward Gorey
- Born to run
- Boy oh boy
- Boys in the trees : a memoir
- Brave Jane Austen : reader, writer, author, rebel
- Brave, black, first : 50+ African American women who changed the world
- Breaking and entering : the extraordinary story of a hacker called "Alien"
- Breakthrough! : how three people saved "blue babies" and changed medicine forever
- Broad band : the untold story of the women who made the Internet
- Broken (in the best possible way)
- Bruce Lee : a life
- Building Zaha : the story of architect Zaha Hadid
- Building art : the life and work of Frank Gehry
- Bunny Mellon : the life of an American style legend
- Butch Cassidy : the true story of an American outlaw
- By women possessed : a life of Eugene O'Neill
- Calder : the conquest of space : the later years : 1940-1976
- Calder : the conquest of time : the early years, 1898-1940
- Calhoun : American heretic
- Cancer crossings : a brother, his doctors, and the quest for a cure to childhood leukemia
- Captain Tom Moore
- Carrie Fisher : a life on the edge
- Carter reads the newspaper
- Cartoon county : my father and his friends in the golden age of make-believe
- Cary Grant : a brilliant disguise
- Casey Stengel : baseball's greatest character
- Caught in the revolution : Petrograd, Russia, 1917--a world on the edge
- Changing the equation : 50+ US Black women in STEM
- Charles Darwin
- Charlotte Brontë : a fiery heart
- Charlton Heston : Hollywood's last icon
- Chasing King's killer : the hunt for Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassin
- Chester Nez and the unbreakable code : a Navajo code talker's story
- Child of light : a biography of Robert Stone
- Child of the flower-song people : Luz Jiménez, daughter of the Nahua
- Chopin's piano : in search of the instrument that transformed music
- Churchill : walking with destiny
- Civil War barons : the tycoons, entrepreneurs, inventors, and visionaries who forged victory and shaped a nation
- Claiming my place : coming of age in the shadow of the Holocaust
- Classic Krakauer : essays on wilderness and risk
- Classified : the secret career of Mary Golda Ross, Cherokee aerospace engineer
- Claudette Colvin
- Clementine : the life of Mrs. Winston Churchill
- Coach Wooden and me : our 50-year friendship on and off the court
- Coco and the little black dress
- Code breaker, spy hunter : how Elizebeth Friedman changed the course of two world wars
- Code name : Lise : the true story of World War II's most highly decorated spy
- Composers : their lives and works
- Condé Nast : the man and his empire--a biography
- Counting on Katherine : how Katherine Johnson saved Apollo 13
- Counting the stars
- Crisis of character : a White House Secret Service officer discloses his firsthand experience with Hillary, Bill, and how they operate
- Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
- Cross of snow : a life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Crossings : a doctor-soldier's story
- Crown of blood : the deadly inheritance of Lady Jane Grey
- Custer's trials : a life on the frontier of a new America
- Cybill disobedience : how I survived beauty pageants, Elvis, sex, Bruce Willis, lies, marriage, motherhood, hollywood, and the irrepressible urge to say what I think
- Dadland
- Dancing hands : how Teresa Carreño played the piano for President Lincoln
- Dangerous Jane
- Danza! : Amalia Hernández and el Ballet Folklórico de México
- Dare not linger : the presidential years
- Darkest hour : how Churchill brought England back from the brink
- Daughters of the Winter Queen : four remarkable sisters, the crown of Bohemia, and the enduring legacy of Mary, Queen of Scots
- Dave Brubeck : a life in time
- David Attenborough
- David Bowie : a life
- De Gaulle
- Debussy : a painter in sound
- Degas, painter of ballerinas
- Demagogue : the life and long shadow of Senator Joe McCarthy
- Desk 88 : eight progressive senators who changed America
- Devils, lusts and strange desires : the life of Patricia Highsmith
- Diana, our mother. : her life and legacy
- Dictionnaire généalogique des familles canadiennes depuis la fondation de la colonie jusqu'à nos jours
- Dinner with DiMaggio : memories of an American hero
- Discovering the hidden wisdom of the Little prince : in search of Saint-Exupéry's lost child
- Divine Lola : a true story of scandal and celebrity
- Do you feel like I do? : a memoir
- Dodge City : Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the wickedest town in the American West
- Dodge City : Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the wickedest town in the American West
- Dog flowers : a memoir
- Don't you ever : my mother and her secret son
- Dorothy Day : dissenting voice of the American century
- Dorothy Day : the world will be saved by beauty : an intimate portrait of my grandmother
- Double ace : the life of Robert Lee Scott Jr., pilot, hero, and teller of tall tales
- Douglas MacArthur : American warrior
- Down along with that devil's bones : a reckoning with monuments, memory, and the legacy of white supremacy
- Dr. Fauci : how a boy from Brooklyn became America's doctor
- Dr. Jo : how Sara Josephine Baker saved the lives of America's children
- Dragonfly : a daughter's emergence from autism: a practical guide for parents
- Dream builder : the story of architect Philip Freelon
- Duke Kahanamoku
- Eartha & Kitt : a daughter's love story in black and white
- Edison
- Edison
- Edith Halpert : the Downtown Gallery and the rise of American art
- Edvard Munch : an inner life
- Einstein and the rabbi : searching for the soul
- Eleanor Roosevelt : the war years and after, v. 3, 1939-1962
- Eleanor and Hick : the love affair that shaped a First Lady
- Eliza Hamilton : the extraordinary life and times of the wife of Alexander Hamilton
- Eliza Hamilton : the extraordinary life and times of the wife of Alexander Hamilton
- Elizabeth & Margaret : the intimate world of the Windsor sisters
- Elizabeth : the forgotten years
- Elizabeth Bishop : a miracle for breakfast
- Elizabeth Warren : her fight, her work, her life
- Elizabeth Warren : nevertheless, she persisted
- Elizabeth Warren : the life, times, and rise of Warren, aka the Boss
- Elizabeth Warren's big, bold plans
- Elizabeth and Monty : the untold story of their intimate friendship
- Elizabeth's rival : the tumultuous life of the Countess of Leicester : the romance and conspiracy that threatened Queen Elizabeth's court
- Ella Fitzgerald
- Elon Musk : Tesla, SpaceX, and the quest for a fantastic future
- Emily Dickinson's gardening life : the plants & places that inspired the iconic poet
- Emily writes : Emily Dickinson and her poetic beginnings
- Emmeline Pankhurst
- Empire of deception : the incredible story of a master swindler who seduced a city and captivated the nation
- Empire of imagination : Gary Gygax and the birth of Dungeons & Dragons
- Empire of pain : the secret history of the Sackler dynasty
- Empire of self : a life of Gore Vidal
- Empress : the astonishing reign of Nur Jahan
- Empress of the east : how a European slave girl became queen of the Ottoman Empire
- Enemy of all mankind : a true story of piracy, power, and history's first global manhunt
- Ernesto : the untold story of Hemingway in revolutionary Cuba
- Escalante's dream : on the trail of the Spanish discovery of the Southwest
- Ethel Rosenberg : an American tragedy
- Eunice : the Kennedy who changed the world
- Eve of a hundred midnights : the star-crossed love story of two WWII correspondents and their epic escape across the Pacific
- Evonne Goolagong
- Exit right : the people who left the Left and reshaped the American century
- Expect great things : the life and search of Henry David Thoreau
- Explorers : amazing tales of the world's greatest adventurers
- Extraordinary people : a semi-comprehensive guide to some of the world's most fascinating individuals
- Eyes on the street : the life of Jane Jacobs
- Fab four friends : the boys who became the Beatles
- Family history : a memoir
- Famous father girl : a memoir of growing up Bernstein
- Fancy party gowns : the story of fashion designer Ann Cole Lowe
- Farthest field : an Indian story of the Second World War
- Fatal discord : Erasmus, Luther, and the fight for the Western mind
- Fay Wray and Robert Riskin : a Hollywood memoir
- Fear : Trump in the White House
- Fearless world traveler : adventures of Marianne North, botanical artist
- Ferdinand Magellan
- Finding Chika : a little girl, an earthquake, and the making of a family
- Finding Freedom : a cook's story; remaking a life from scratch
- Finding Narnia : the story of C. S. Lewis and his brother
- Finding a way home : Mildred and Richard Loving and the fight for marriage equality
- First : Sandra Day O'Connor
- First generation : 36 trailblazing immigrants and refugees who make America great
- First to fall : Elijah Lovejoy and the fight for a free press in the age of slavery
- First to fall : Elijah Lovejoy and the fight for a free press in the age of slavery
- Fly girls : how five daring women defied all odds and made aviation history
- Flying free : how Bessie Coleman's dreams took flight
- Flying high : the story of gymnastics champion Simone Biles
- Follow Chester! : a college football team fights racism and makes history
- For Audrey with love : Audrey Hepburn and Givenchy
- For the glory : Eric Liddell's journey from Olympic champion to modern martyr
- For the right to learn : Malala Yousafzai's story
- Forgotten : the untold story of D-Day's Black heroes, at home and at war
- Fortune's many houses : a Victorian visionary, a noble Scottish family, and a lost inheritance
- Founding martyr : the life and death of Dr. Joseph Warren, the American Revolution's lost hero
- Foursome : Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O'Keeffe, Paul Strand, Rebecca Salsbury
- France is a feast : the photographic journey of Paul and Julia Child
- Francis I : the maker of modern France
- Franklin & Washington : the founding partnership
- Franklin D. Roosevelt : a political life
- Frederick Douglass : America's prophet
- Frederick Douglass : prophet of freedom
- Frederick Douglass : the lion who wrote history
- Frederick the Great : King of Prussia
- Free as a bird : the story of Malala
- Free thinker : sex, suffrage, and the extraordinary life of Helen Hamilton Gardener
- Freedom's detective : the Secret Service, the Ku Klux Klan, and the man who masterminded America's first war on terror
- Frenemies in the family : famous brothers and sisters who butted heads and had each other's backs
- Freud : the making of an illusion
- Frida Kahlo
- Frida Kahlo
- Frida Kahlo and her animalitos
- From Holmes to Sherlock : the story of the men and women who created an icon
- From the farm to Arlington : memoirs of an American patriot
- From the streets of Shaolin : the Wu-Tang saga
- Fryderyk Chopin : a life and times
- Furious hours : murder, fraud, and the last trial of Harper Lee
- Furnishing eternity : a father, a son, a coffin, and a measure of life
- Gehrig & the Babe : the friendship and the feud
- Genius at play : the curious mind of John Horton Conway
- George Washington
- George Washington : the political rise of America's founding father
- George Washington Carver : a life
- Giannis : the improbable rise of an NBA MVP
- Girl code : gaming, going viral, and getting it done
- Girl running : Bobbi Gibb and the Boston Marathon
- Girls think of everything : stories of ingenious inventions by women
- Girls who run the world : 31 CEOs who mean business
- Gloria's voice : the story of Gloria Steinem -- feminist, activist, leader
- Go show the world : a celebration of Indigenous heroes
- God save the queens : the essential history of women in hip-hop
- God's wolf : the life of the most notorious of all crusaders, scourge of Saladin
- Goddess of anarchy : the life and times of Lucy Parsons, American radical
- Gods of war : history's greatest military rivals
- Goebbels : a biography
- Goethe : life as a work of art
- Going the distance : the life and works of W.P. Kinsella
- Gold dust woman : the biography of Stevie Nicks
- Gold dust woman : the biography of Stevie Nicks
- Golem girl : a memoir
- Good Friday on the rez : a Pine Ridge odyssey
- Good night stories for rebel girls : 100 tales of extraordinary women
- Good night stories for rebel girls, 2
- Gorbachev : his life and times
- Goya : a portrait of the artist
- Grace Banker and her Hello Girls answer the call : the heroic story of WWI telephone operators
- Grant
- Grant
- Grant
- Green River, running red : the real story of the Green River killer--America's deadliest serial murderer
- Greetings from Utopia Park : surviving a transcendent childhood
- Greta Thunberg
- Grinnell : America's environmental pioneer and his restless drive to save the West
- Groundbreaking guys : 40 men who became great by doing good
- Gumption : relighting the torch of freedom with America's gutsiest troublemakers
- Göring's man in Paris : the story of a Nazi art plunderer and his world
- Handel in London : the making of a genius
- Hank : the short life and long country road of Hank Williams
- Hannibal
- Hans Christian Andersen : the journey of his life
- Hard work, but it's worth it : the life of Jimmy Carter
- Harriet Tubman
- Harriet Tubman
- Harry : life, loss, and love
- Harvey Milk : his lives and death