Allen Williams, Maude - Maude: She Grew Up with the Country
From the secrets of living to age 110, to family life before TV; details from Maude's life.
http://www.calliopepress.com/maude/
Barry-Bratcher, Siobhán - Brushstrokes: A Work In Progress
Chronicling her Brooklyn upbringing during the 50s and 60s.
http://www.fairmilebooks.com/
Benbow, John - Brave Benbow
Biography of Admiral John Benbow.
http://bravebenbow.tripod.com/
Boy Giant
The life of Robert Wadlow, the world's tallest man at 8' 11.1". Wadlow lived in Alton, Illinois from 1918 to 1940.
http://www.boygiant.com
Boyce, William D. - Lone Scout: W. D. Boyce and American Boy Scouting
Biography of Chicago newspaper publisher, adventurer, entrepreneur and founder of the Boy Scouts of America in 1910.
http://legacypress.homestead.com/
Constable, Daniel and William - Citizen Daniel and the Call of America
Brian Jenkins' account, based on letters and journals of two brothers who sailed from England to America in 1806, and traveled from Niagara Falls to New Orleans.
http://www.citizendaniel.com/
DeRosier, Linda Scott - Songs of Life and Grace
A memoir of growing up in Appalachian Kentucky.
http://lindascottderosier.com/
Earhart, Amelia: East To The Dawn
Susan Butler's biography of Amelia Earhart.
http://www.easttothedawn.com/
Earnhardt, Dale- Image of Greatness
A biography in pictures; unique photos on the life of the NASCAR legend.
http://www.imageofgreatness.com/
Fenoglio, Virginia - A Beautiful Time
The story of a woman's life, through her family, focussing on the final few months of her life.
http://www.abeautifultime.com
Foltz, Clara Shortridge: The Lady Lawyer
Sharon Avey's book, featuring a career that spanned 56 years and its impact on others.
http://firstladylawyer.com/index.asp
Fraser, Chris - Christie Boy
A Highland soldier and ferryman's life.
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/fraser.son1/
Gell-Mann, Murray - Strange Beauty
George Johnson's biography of the physicist who discovered the quark, and the Eightfold Way.
http://www.santafe.edu/~johnson/strangebeauty.html
Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
Amanda Foreman's story of one of the most flamboyant women of the 18th century.
http://www.amanda-foreman.com/
Ginsberg, Allen - Ginsberg at Evergreen
Leo Daugherty's interview with the poet.
http://www.lapage.com/ginsberg/
Hammond, John - Beloved African
Jill Baker's account of the life and work of her father, a pioneering educator in Rhodesia and Zimbabwe.
http://www.belovedafrican.com/
Haughey, Charles - Sweetie
Kevin O'Connor's story of a former Prime Minister of Ireland; his life, loves and enemies.
http://homepage.tinet.ie/~kevinoc/
Hearst, William Randolph - Hearst Over Hollywood
Louis Pizzitola's book about Hearst's role in shaping films from the Silent era to the 1940s. Note; Flash required, no HTML option.
http://www.hearstoverhollywood.com/
Hoover, J. Edgar - Honk If You Love J. Edgar Hoover
Allyn Baskerville and Bill Gillespie's account of the career of an F.B.I. agent from 1970 to 1990.
http://www.honk.ws/
Horn, Stacy - Waiting for My Cats to Die
Autobiographical discussion of death, TV, music, the single life and cats.
http://www.echonyc.com/~horn/
Ingerson, Norman and Murdock, Stella - The Victorian Courtship Letters 1892-1896
Jennifer Elvgren's collection of letters written in the late 19th century in Jamestown, New York and Western Pennsylvania.
http://www.cstone.net/~elvgren/
Jaramillo, Cato - Too Stubborn to Die
Nordhausen survivor's story.
http://www.geocities.com/cato30/
Kilmer, Joyce - A Literary Biography
John Covell's account includes many lesser-known poems.
http://www.write-fitcomm.com/kilmer.htm
McCrae, Jackson Tippett
The Bark of the Dogwood. The writer's memory of people, places, homes, and gardens of the South.
http://www.enolam.com
Reiker, Russ - 999Officer Down
The story of a police officer, injured on duty two months before his scheduled retirement.
http://999officerdown.com/
Robbins, Rhea Côté - Wednesday's Child
Growing up as a woman in the Franco-American culture in Maine.
http://www.rhetapress.com/
Sacks, Frank - The Waterbed Wars
The behind-the-scenes story of an American fad.
http://www.franksacks.com
Smith, Jack DeBar - The Iconoclast Goes to Sea
World war II experiences as an enlisted man in the US Navy.
http://www.iconoclasts.com/
Summers, Thomas A. - Hunkering Down
Autobiographical study of one man's experience in advocating social justice for the mentally ill.
http://www.edistopress.com/
Tolkien - Tolkien is Kloneit
Chris Carrie's theories about the Tolkien family and their friends, with ordering information.
http://www.jtolkien.com
Turnbull, Colin M. - In the Arms of Africa
Roy Richard Grinker's biography of the anthropologist.
http://www.colinturnbull.com/
Wilder, Laura Ingalls - Little House Country
Information about Laura Ingalls Wilder, books about her life and links to the places she wrote about.
http://lauraingallswilder.com/
Winton, Alexander - Famous but Forgotten
Automotive pioneer and industrialist who produced cars between 1896 and 1922. Table of contents and book excerpts. Written by Thomas F. Saal and Bernard J. Golias.
http://www.wintonhistory.com/
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