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Biography Genre
Books in the Biography genre:
Lord Nelson (1929)
A biography of Britain’s greatest Admiral, based on his letters and dispatches.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Various
Red Star in Samarkand (1929)
A boot licking paeon to the murderous communist takeover of Uzbekistan by one of the foremost American Communists.
Author(s):
Anna Louise Strong
Illustrator(s):
Helene Carter
The Adventures of Johnny Appleseed (1930)
Author(s):
Henry Chapin
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
The Annie Marble in Germany (1930)
The author of the Hornblower saga takes a motor boat on the German inland waterways.
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
Everybody’s Boswell (1930)
All the best bits from Boswell’s Life of Johnson and A Tour of the Hebrides. The cover is from the 1989 reprint.
Author(s):
James Boswell
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
When I Was Very Young (1930)
A brief biography of the author.
Author(s):
A. A. Milne
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
Daniel Boone (1931)
A brief biography of the pioneering backwoodsman.
Author(s):
Unknown
Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
Little House in the Big Woods (1932)
In this, the first volume of her family saga, Laura Ingalls is living with her Ma and Pa, sisters Mary and Carrie in the Big Woods of Wisconsin, near Lake Pepin.
Author(s):
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Illustrator(s):
Helen Sewell
The Memoirs of Benvenuto Cellini (1932)
The autobiography of a Renaissance goldsmith and sculptor.
Author(s):
Robert Henry Hobart Cust
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
The Sign of the Buffalo Skull (1932)
A biography of Jim Bridger, mountain man.
Author(s):
Peter O. Lamb
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
Edward Lear on My Shelves (1933)
A catalog of the extensive collection of Edward Lear which was later donated to the Harvard Houghton Library.
Author(s):
William Bradhurst Osgood Field
Illustrator(s):
Edward Lear
Everybody’s Lamb (1933)
A generous helping of Lamb.
Author(s):
Charles Lamb
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
The Great Cham (1933)
An even shorter Johnson.
Author(s):
James Boswell
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
Raggle-Taggle (1933)
Adventures with a fiddle in Hungary and Romania.
Author(s):
Walter Starkie
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Rackham
Spanish Raggle-Taggle (1934)
Adventures with a fiddle in Norther Spain.
Author(s):
Walter Starkie
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Rackham
Windows on Henry Street (1934)
Autobiography of the founder of the New York Visiting Nurse service.
Author(s):
Lillian D. Wald
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
Little House on the Prairie (1935)
In the second book of the Little House series, Pa takes the family and sets out for Indian Territory to stake a claim.
Author(s):
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Illustrator(s):
Helen Sewell
Perfume from Provence (1935)
An English couple moves to Provence in the 1930’s.
A later reprint is at archive.org.
Author(s):
Winifred Fortescue
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
Victoria Regina (1935)
A collection of plays chronicling the life of Queen Victoria.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Laurence Housman
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard