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Biography Genre
Books in the Biography genre:
Papa Married a Mormon (1955)
Author(s):
John D. Fitzgerald
Illustrator(s):
Photographs
The Suburban Child (1955)
Memories of the author’s childhood in South London.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
James Kenward
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
America, I Like You (1956)
P.G. Wodehouse shares his feelings after moving to the United States.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
Marc Simont
The Bulls and the Bees (1956)
A humorous account of the author’s boyhood on a Connecticut farm.
Author(s):
Roger Eddy
Illustrator(s):
N. M. Bodecker
Childhood, Boyhood and Youth (1957)
A series of autobiographical sketches by the great Russian novelist. This World’s Classics edition, #352, has a dust jacket by Ardizzone.
Author(s):
Leo Tolstoy
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Drawn from Memory (1957)
Author(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
My Life as an Indian (1957)
An abridged account of the author’s life as a trapper, trader, guide and adopted member of the Piegan Blackfeet tribe.
Author(s):
James Willard Schultz
Illustrator(s):
David Humphreys Miller
Over Seventy: An Autobiography with Digressions (1957)
P.G. Wodehouse reminisces about his career in America.
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
None
Sugar for the Horse (1957)
More stories about he author’s deplorable Uncle Silas.
Author(s):
H. E. Bates
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Watchwords of Liberty New Edition (1957)
Author(s):
Robert Lawson
Illustrator(s):
Robert Lawson
Bull and Brass (1958)
Dust jacket by Ardizzone. A tale of five years at the War Office - after the war.
Author(s):
John Foley
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
The Cabin Faced West (1958)
Author(s):
Jean Fritz
Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
Jessica's Journal (1958)
An eleven year old girl recounts her adventures cruising the south Pacific with her family on a fifty foot yacht.
Author(s):
Jessica M. Reynolds
Illustrator(s):
Peter Spier
Lois Lenski: Friend of Children (1958)
A brief review of the work of Lois Lenski put out by her publishers.
Author(s):
Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
Best in Children’s Books Volume 18 (1959)
Best in Children’s Books Volume 42 (1959)
The Godstone and the Blackymor (1959)
Author(s):
T. H. White
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Works of Anne Frank (1959)
This edition includes Anne Frank’s stories and essays as well as her diary.
Author(s):
Anne Frank
Illustrator(s):
Peter Spier
The Boyhoods of Great Composers Book One (1960)
Short biographies of the youth of composers, including Handel, Mozart, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Grieg and Elgar.
Author(s):
Catherine Gough
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Wild Horse Kingdom (1960)
The story of how the author built up a pony farm in the wilds of Wales.
Author(s):
Mel Wayne
Illustrator(s):
Christine Price