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Biography Genre
Books in the Biography genre:
At That Time (1947)
Author(s):
Robert Lawson
Illustrator(s):
Robert Lawson
How to Be Rich, Like Me (1947)
Successful author William Hazlett Upson explains his method of making money without really working.
Author(s):
William Hazlett Upson
Illustrator(s):
Samuel Bryant
Robert Schumann and Mascot Ziff (1947)
A biography of the composer written for young people.
Author(s):
Opal Wheeler
Illustrator(s):
Christine Price
At That Time (1948)
Author(s):
Robert Lawson
Illustrator(s):
Robert Lawson
Frederic Chopin (1948)
This is the first of a two part biography of the famous Polish composer written for children.
Author(s):
Opal Wheeler
Illustrator(s):
Christine Price
Mary Montgomery, Rebel (1948)
A fictionalized biography of a southern girl at the time of the Civil War.
Author(s):
Helen Fern Daringer
Illustrator(s):
Kate Seredy
My Very First Book (1948)
A baby book. This is the cover of the slip case.
Author(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Illustrator(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Racundra’s First Cruise (1948)
A account of the author’s cruise in the Baltic on a small two masted yacht with his wife (former secretary to Lenin) and a local seaman, the prototype of Peter Duck.
Author(s):
Arthur Ransome
Illustrator(s):
Photographs
Arthur Ransome
Richard Doyle: His Life and Work (1948)
A short biography, a fairly complete bibliography and many illustrations.
Author(s):
Daria Hambourg
Illustrator(s):
Richard Doyle
Carney’s House Party (1949)
Author(s):
Maud Hart Lovelace
Illustrator(s):
Vera Neville
Amos Fortune, Free Man (1950)
Brought to Massachusetts as a slave, after forty-five years he was able to buy his freedom, moved to New Hampshire and set up as a tanner.
Author(s):
Elizabeth Yates
Illustrator(s):
Nora S. Unwin
Frederic Chopin (1950)
This is the second volume of this biography of the Polish composer written for children. The cover is from a later reprint.
Author(s):
Opal Wheeler
Illustrator(s):
Christine Price
A Bird in the Hand: Sayings From Poor Richard’s Almanac (1951)
Author(s):
Benjamin Franklin
Illustrator(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Enter David Garrick (1951)
A biography of the eighteenth century British actor-manager.
Author(s):
Anna Bird Stewart
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
John Wesley (1951)
A brief biography of the Protestant founder of Methodism.
- Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
May McNeer
Illustrator(s):
Lynd Ward
Queen Elizabeth (1951)
A biography of “Good” Queen Bess, intended for elementary schools.
Author(s):
Jeannette Covert Nolan
Illustrator(s):
Marie A. Lawson
Ten Brave Men (1951)
Brief biographies of ten early founders of America.
Author(s):
Sonia Medvedeva Daugherty
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
Treasure Trove of the Sun (1952)
Two orphans in northern Russia go cranberry-picking in a dangerous bog.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Mikhail Prishvin
Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
The Adventures of John Wetherell (1953)
Extracts from an English seaman who was pressed into the British Navy during the Napoleonic wars.
Author(s):
John Porrit Wetherell
Illustrator(s):
Edward Gorey
John Porrit Wetherell
Bring on the Girls (1953)
Plum (lyrics) and Guy (book) reminisce about their years as kings of Broadway musical comedy.
Author(s):
Guy Bolton
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
Paul Bacon