Scholastic
Scholastic: Biography: George Ancona
Read this biography to learn about illustrator George Ancona. Links to an interview and to a list of his books are available.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Biography: Jack Gantos
Read this autobiography to learn about author Jack Gantos. A link to a list of his books is available.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Biography: John Coy
Read this autobiography to learn about award winning author John Coy. Links to his website, an author visit kit, and a list of his books are available.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Biography: Karen Cushman
Read this autobiography to learn about author Karen Cushman. Links to an interview and a list of her books are available.
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: From Courage to Freedom:frederick Douglass's 1845 Autobiography
In this 3-lesson plan unit, students will read Douglass's narrative. They will analyze Douglass's vivid first-hand accounts of the lives of slaves and the behavior of slave owners to see how he successfully contrasts reality with...
Yale University
Avalon Project: African Americans Biography, Autobiography and History
Five primary source materials on African American history: I Have a Dream by Martin Luther King, Jr., My Bondage and Freedom by Frederick Douglass, The Narrative of Sojourner Truth, The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois, Up From...
Other
Hans Wilhelm
Hans Wilhelm's site offers a biography, an autobiography, photos, a story to read aloud and news about his upcoming work and appearances.
Other
Autobiography: e.l. Konigsburg
Following this brief autobiographical sketch, there are is a biographical statement, a list of works written by the author, and a list of works about the author.
Agnes Scott College
Agnes Scott College: Evelyn Boyd Granville Biography
This autobiography of Evelyn Boyd Granville gives an outline of the various jobs she held as a mathematician in the United States.
Other
Who2 Biographies: Nelson Mandela
A brief biographical page on Mandela. Includes links to various other resources, including excerpts of his autobiography.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Zines for Kids Multigenre Texts About Media Icons
Contains plans for nine lessons that ask learners to create multigenre zines for popular culture figures that include letter, persuasive, narrative, acrostic poetry, comic, and biography/autobiography writing. To accomplish this,...
Other
Michael Snow Biography
Featured is Michael Snow's own autobiography. A Toronto born painter and sculptor, he is also an award winning musician, filmmaker, and photographer.
Other
The League of Canadian Poets: Identity and Autobiography
Explores Canadian poetry that reveals personal insights and reflections on the larger Canadian identity, and presents learning activities where students do research and write poems.
American Academy of Achievement
Academy of Achievement: Ernest J. Gaines
Biography of American author, Ernest Gaines, well-known for his novels and essays, including The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pitman and A Gathering of Old Men, both adapted for television.
University of North Carolina
"Life and Times of Frederick Douglass": Text
HTML full text of the "Life and Times of Frederick Douglass," the autobiography of the 19th century African American abolitionist (1818-1895).
Chase Young, PhD
Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes [Pdf]
A reader's theater script for Eleanor Coerr's book, Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes, a biography about Sadako Sasaki, is provided on these pages. Speaking parts for all students in a classroom are available in this activity.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: American Passages: Spirit of Nationalism: Benjamin Franklin
This is a brief biography of businessman, politician, scientist, and author Benjamin Franklin. Click "Benjamin Franklin Activities" for related materials.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: American Passages: Southern Renaissance: Zora Neale Hurston
Zora Neale Hurston is featured in this biography highlighting her literary contributions which focused on African Americans as whole people, celebrating their heritage, in an era when black authors tended to write about their...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Writing an Autobiographical Incident
Lesson in which students are required to read and analyze biographies and autobiographies and use them as a model for writing about an autobiographical experience. Students complete the writing process and share written work with the class.
Kids' Wings
Texas Bluebonnet Books: "26 Fairmont Avenue"
Here you will find activities for Tomie dePaola's autobiography, "26 Fairmont Avenue."
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Literary Nonfiction (English 7 Reading)
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Learn how to describe the structural and substantive differences between an autobiography or diary and a fictional adaptation of it.
Varsity Tutors
Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: Ernest J. Gaines Lesson Plans
An online resource featuring links to information on the life and work of Ernest J. Gaines. These links provide biographical information along with lesson plans and activities.
African American Literature Book Club
African American Literature Book Club: Alex Haley
This site provides a concise biography of Haley, the video [12:28] "Alex Haley Interview Roots (Merv Griffin Show 1977)" and links to six of his books.
Other
Isaac Asimov Home Page
This resource covers every aspect of Asimov's prolific writing career. Biographical information, movie connections, short story collections, lists of Asmiov's works are all here.