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Biography Genre
Books in the Biography genre:
The Suburban Child (1955)
Memories of the author’s childhood in South London.
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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.
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Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
Marc Simont
Drawn from Memory (1957)
Author(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
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
Best in Children’s Books Volume 18 (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
Cora Crane (1960)
A Biography of Mrs. Stephen Crane.
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Author(s):
Lillian Gilkes
Illustrator(s):
Lynd Ward
Every Advantage (1961)
A semi-autobiographical book of John Verney.
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Author(s):
John Verney
Illustrator(s):
John Verney
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
America’s Mark Twain (1962)
Author(s):
May McNeer
Illustrator(s):
Lynd Ward
Author! Author! (1962)
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
None
Drawn from Life (1962)
Author(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
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
Education by Uncles (1966)
Author(s):
Abigail Adams Homans
Illustrator(s):
Pauline Baynes
Photographs
Long ago when I was Young (1966)
Author(s):
E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes (1967)
The story of a twelve days’ hiking and expedition in the south of France.
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Author(s):
Robert Louis Stevenson
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
The Young Ardizzone (1970)
An autobiography of the illustrator’s youth.
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Author(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
The First Four Years (1971)
Author(s):
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
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
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
Joan of Arc (1980)
Author(s):
Maurice Boutet de Monvel
Illustrator(s):
Maurice Boutet de Monvel
Self-Portrait (1982)
The illustrator of such well-known books as "Charlotte's Web" and "Stuart Little" talks about his life and work.
Author(s):
Garth Williams
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
Indian Diary (1984)
The artist was sent to India by UNESCO to teach a course in silk screen printing and here records his impressions.
Author(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Long ago when I was Young (1987)
Author(s):
E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
George Buchanan
Sir Francis Drake: His Daring Deeds (1988)
Author(s):
Roy Gerrard
Illustrator(s):
Roy Gerrard
Jane Austen’s Manuscript Letters in Facsimile (1990)
Reprints facsimiles of all of Jane Austen’s known letters.
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Author(s):
Jane Austen
Illustrator(s):
None
Jane Austen’s Letters (1995)
Author(s):
Jane Austen
Deirdre Le Faye
Illustrator(s):
None
The Little Chair (1996)
Something about the children who have sat in the little chair - good and bad.
Author(s):
Rumer Godden
Illustrator(s):
Pauline Baynes
The Children’s Book of America (1998)
Short essays on American history, biographies, poems and folk tales.
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Author(s):
Various
Illustrator(s):
Michael Hague
A Treasury of Narnia The Story of C.S. Lewis and His Chronicles of Narnia (1999)
A compendium of information about all things Lewis and Narnia.
Author(s):
Alison Sage
Brian Sibley
Illustrator(s):
Pauline Baynes
The Children’s Book of Faith (2000)
A collection of stories from the bible, biographies, poems and prayers.
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Author(s):
Various
Illustrator(s):
Michael Hague
The Children’s Book of Home and Family (2002)
A collection of stories and poems dealing with families.
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Author(s):
Various
Illustrator(s):
Michael Hague
Bring on the Girls (2014)
Plum (lyrics) and Guy (book) reminisce about their years as kings of Broadway musical comedy. This is the revised text from the 1954 Herbert Jenkins, Ltd. edition.
Author(s):
Guy Bolton
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
Andrzej Klimwoski
Photographs
Performing Flea: A Self-Portrait in Letters (2014)
Comprises a selection of the letters Wodehouse wrote to Townend over a period of more than thirty years.
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
Andrzej Klimwoski
Over Seventy: An Autobiography with Digressions (2015)
P.G. Wodehouse reminisces about his career in America.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
Andrzej Klimwoski