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Biography Genre
Books in the Biography genre:
Elizabeth (1961)
This is the story of St. Elizabeth of Hungary.
Author(s):
Mary K. Harris
Illustrator(s):
Rudolf Michael Sachs
My Friend Yakub (1961)
The author describes his boyhood in a small Siberian village and his friend Yacub, a Tartar storyteller.
Author(s):
Nicholas Kalashnikoff
Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
Not Such an Ass (1961)
Some aspects of a life at the bar.
Author(s):
Henry Cecil
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Thomas Jefferson: Fighter for Freedom and Human Rights (1961)
A brief biography of the author of the Declaration of Independence and second president of the United States of America. This is a later edition of The Way of an Eagle.
Author(s):
Sonia Medvedeva Daugherty
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
The Whirly Bird (1961)
Author(s):
Dmitry Varley
Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
America’s Mark Twain (1962)
Author(s):
May McNeer
Illustrator(s):
Lynd Ward
Author! Author! (1962)
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
None
Collier’s Junior Classics Volume 8 (1962)
Twenty-one brief biographies, chiefly of Americans.
David Copperfield (1962)
This is a newly illustrated version of Dickens’ autobiographical magnum opus.
Author(s):
Charles Dickens
Illustrator(s):
N. M. Bodecker
Drawn from Life (1962)
Author(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
Elephi (1962)
The author tells us about her cat’s many accomplishments.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Jean Stafford
Illustrator(s):
Erik Blegvad
On the Way Home (1962)
Devastated by drought, Laura and Almanzo Wilder give up their claim and move to Mansfield, Missouri.
Author(s):
Rose Wilder Lane
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Illustrator(s):
The Etheredges
Photographs
The Story of Let’s Make an Opera (1962)
The story of a theatrical entertainment by Benjamin Britten in which he shows how he wrote and prepared an opera, then presented the short children’s opera The Little Sweep.
Author(s):
Eric Crozier
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
The Boyhoods of Great Composers Book Two (1963)
Short biographies covering the youth of famous composers. This volume includes Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Verdi, Tchaikovsky and Vaughan Williams.
Author(s):
Catherine Gough
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Lois Lenski: An Appreciation (1963)
Author(s):
Lois Lenski
Et al
Illustrator(s):
None
The Margaret Rudkin Pepperidge Farm Cookbook (1963)
A memoir in the form of a cookbook by the founder of Pepperidge Farm Company, Inc.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Margaret Fogarty Rudkin
Illustrator(s):
Erik Blegvad
A Time to Recall: The Delights of a Maine Childhood (1963)
Author(s):
Helen V. Taylor
Illustrator(s):
Erik Blegvad
Helena (1964)
Raised from stable girl to empress of Rome, Helena used her position to recover the relics of the Passion of Christ.
Author(s):
Mary K. Harris
Illustrator(s):
Michael A. Hampshire
The Hornblower Companion (1964)
The author comments on his fictional creation.
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Samuel Bryant
The Hornblower Companion (1964)
The author comments on his fictional creation.
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Samuel Bryant