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Biography Genre
Books in the Biography genre:
Two Years Before the Mast (1840)
Author(s):
Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
Illustrator(s):
None
Sport with Gun and Rod in American Woods and Waters (1883)
Author(s):
Alfred M. Mayer
Illustrator(s):
Howard Pyle
Bob Son of Battle (1898)
Author(s):
Alfred Ollivant
Illustrator(s):
Marguerite Kirmse
Froissart’s Chronicle (1901)
Author(s):
Jean Froissart
Illustrator(s):
None
Reminiscences of a Ranchman (1910)
Author(s):
Edgar Beecher Bronson
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
Saint Joan of Arc (1919)
Author(s):
Mark Twain
Illustrator(s):
Wilfred J. Jones
Howard Pyle
The Cruise of the Cachalot (1926)
Author(s):
Frank Bullen
Illustrator(s):
Mead Schaeffer
Everybody’s Pepys (1926)
Author(s):
Samuel Pepys
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
Everybody’s Boswell (1930)
All the best bits from Boswell’s Life of Johnson and A Tour of the Hebrides. The cover is from the 1989 reprint.
Author(s):
James Boswell
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
Jockeys, Crooks and Kings (1930)
A biographical book that tells the story of the life of Winnie O'Connor, as narrated to Earl Chapin May.
Author(s):
Earl Chapin May
Winifred S. O’Connor
Illustrator(s):
Lynd Ward
Daniel Boone (1931)
A brief biography of the pioneering backwoodsman.
Author(s):
Unknown
Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
Little House in the Big Woods (1932)
In this, the first volume of her family saga, Laura Ingalls is living with her Ma and Pa, sisters Mary and Carrie in the Big Woods of Wisconsin, near Lake Pepin.
Author(s):
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Illustrator(s):
Helen Sewell
Stallion from the North (1932)
A collection of short stories about people of Central America.
Read online at archive.org
Author(s):
Thomas Rourke
Illustrator(s):
Lynd Ward
Everybody’s Lamb (1933)
A generous helping of Lamb.
Author(s):
Charles Lamb
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
Little House on the Prairie (1935)
In the second book of the Little House series, Pa takes the family and sets out for Indian Territory to stake a claim.
Author(s):
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Illustrator(s):
Helen Sewell
One of Us: The Story of John Reed (1935)
A biography narrating the life of John Reed, an American journalist, poet, and revolutionary who lived during the early 20th century.
Author(s):
Granville Hicks
Illustrator(s):
Lynd Ward
Perfume from Provence (1935)
An English couple moves to Provence in the 1930’s.
A later reprint is at archive.org.
Author(s):
Winifred Fortescue
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
Francis Scott Key (1936)
This brief biography tells of the life of Francis Scott Key, the author of The Star Spangled Banner.
Author(s):
Helen Dixon Bates
Illustrator(s):
Robert Lawson
Ming and Mehitable (1936)
Author(s):
Helen Sewell
Illustrator(s):
Helen Sewell
Ten Saints (1936)
Brief lives of ten saints, including Francis, Christopher and Patrick.
Author(s):
Eleanor Farjeon
Illustrator(s):
Helen Sewell