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Biography Genre
Books in the Biography genre:
Journey Into Childhood (1972)
Author(s):
Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
Maxfield Parrish (1973)
An extensive survey of the work of one of the outstanding American illustrators of the twentieth century.
Author(s):
Coy Ludwig
Illustrator(s):
Maxfield Parrish
Diary of a War Artist (1974)
As a combat artist in World War II, Ardizzone kept a diary and sketchbook.
Author(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Eric & Us: A Remembrance of George Orwell (1974)
Memories of growing up with Eric Blair.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Jacintha Buddicom
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
West from Home: Letters of Laura Ingalls Wilder San Francisco 1915 (1974)
In 1915 Laura Ingalls Wilder went to San Francisco, California to visit her daughter Rose and see the Panama-Pacific Exposition. These are the letters she wrote to Almanzo who stayed to take care of the farm.
Author(s):
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Illustrator(s):
Photographs
James Henry Daugherty (1975)
A short biography and a very complete bibliography of the artist-author.
Author(s):
Edward Kemp
Elaine Kemp
Lynd Ward
Et al
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
Ardizzone’s Kilvert (1976)
Extracts from the diary of an English clergyman in the nineteenth century. He died at the age of thirty-nine in 1879.
Author(s):
Francis Kilvert
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
The Kate Greenaway Book (1976)
A selection from the works of the great nineteenth century children’s author and illustrator.
Author(s):
Robert Browning
Kate Greenaway
Bret Harte
Illustrator(s):
Kate Greenaway
Randolph Caldecott ‘Lord of the Nursery’ (1976)
A brief biography accompanied by a vary large sample of the artist’s work and a comprehensive bibliography.
Author(s):
Rodney K. Engen
Illustrator(s):
Randolph Caldecott
Self-Portrait: Erik Blegvad (1976)
This is an autobiography of the famous children’s book illustrator.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Erik Blegvad
Illustrator(s):
Erik Blegvad
Et al
Yours Pictorially: Illustrated Letters of Randolph Caldecott (1976)
A collection of illustrated letters by the author of the Picture Books.
Author(s):
Randolph Caldecott
Illustrator(s):
Randolph Caldecott
The Art of Nancy Ekholm Burkert (1977)
Author(s):
Michael Danoff
Illustrator(s):
Nancy Ekholm Burkert
Mary McLeod Bethune (1977)
The biography of an African-American educator who founded a school and later a college in Daytona Beach, Florida and was an adviser to Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Author(s):
Eloise Greenfield
Illustrator(s):
Jerry Pinkney
Childtimes: A Three Generation Memoir (1979)
Three generations of women describe their time growing up, from the turn of the twentieth century to the Great Depression.
Author(s):
Eloise Greenfield
Illustrator(s):
Jerry Pinkney
The Education of Henry Adams (1979)
The author was displeased with his classical Harvard education and spent the rest of his life studying to overcome it.
Author(s):
Henry Brooks Adams
Illustrator(s):
Jerry Pinkney
Joan of Arc (1980)
Author(s):
Maurice Boutet de Monvel
Illustrator(s):
Maurice Boutet de Monvel
Kate Greenaway a Biography (1980)
A new biography of the famous children’s book author and illustrator.
Author(s):
Rodney K. Engen
Illustrator(s):
Kate Greenaway
Richard Doyle’s Journal, 1840 (1980)
An illustrated journal kept by the artist when he was fifteen.
Author(s):
Richard Doyle
Illustrator(s):
Richard Doyle
Wodehouse on Wodehouse (1980)
An omnibus containing Bring on the Girls, Performing Flea and Over Seventy (America, I Like You.)
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
David Low
Leslie Brooke and Johnny Crow (1982)
Author(s):
Henry Brooke
Illustrator(s):
L. Leslie Brooke