Ducksters
Ducksters: Kids Books Authors: Dr. Seuss
Kids can learn about Dr. Seuss' biography on this website. Author of children's books such as Cat in the Hat.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Kids Books Authors: Jeff Kinney
Read Jeff Kinney's biography the writer of children's books such as Diary of a Wimpy Kid.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Kids Books Authors: Roald Dahl
On this site, students learn about Roald Dahl's biography. Read all about the author of children's books such as James and the Giant Peach.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Louis Sachar's Biography
This biographical site focuses on Sachar's career choices and the path he took to become an author. Be sure to click on the interview transcript link to read what he had to say to students from around the country.
Other
Harper Collins: J. R. R. Tolkien Books & Biography
This brief biography takes Tolkien through his early years to his marriage and professorship at Leeds and Oxford and his telling stories to his children that would later become the novels so loved by the rest of the world. Also has a...
A&E Television
Biography: Russell Baker
A brief biography of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Russell Wayne Baker.
Shmoop University
Shmoop: George Orwell: Biography
This website provides a biography of George Orwell, the pen name for Eric Arthur Blair, author of Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four.
A&E Television
Biography: Toni Morrison
Biography.com provides a biography on writer Toni Morrison. Her personal life, literary career, and her awards and accomplishments are discussed.
Mocomi & Anibrain Digital Technologies
Mocomi: William Shakespeare Biography
Useful biographical information, career, plays, and interesting facts about William Shakespeare, famous playwright, poet, and actor.
Mocomi & Anibrain Digital Technologies
Mocomi: Rabindranath Tagore Biography
Interesting biographical information and fun facts about Rabindranath Tagore, poet, composer, and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Kids Books Authors: Mary Pope Osborne
A site for kids to learn about Mary Pope Osborne's life. Find out more about the author of the Magic Tree House series of children's books.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Author: Frank Stockton
This site offers links to a biography of Frank Stockton and to 21 of his short stories including "The Lady or the Tiger?"
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Author: Gene Stratton Porter
This site offers links to a biography of Gene Stratton-Porter and the full text of nine children's novels.
University of Illinois
University of Illinois: Modern American Poetry: Gwendolyn Brooks, Biography
Detailed account of the writer's life. Contains references to contemporaries, influences and motivations in her career.
Other
Anna Julia Cooper Project: Anna Julia Cooper's Biography
Biographical sketch of Anna Julia Cooper, who had a long career as an educator and an activist who spoke out about the need for society to raise the position of black women, and to educate all people, regardless of their race or gender.
Harry S. Truman Library and Museum
Truman Museum & Library: Margaret's Biography
An extensive biographical sketch of the life of Margaret Truman, daughter of United States President Harry S. Truman. Details her family background and educational history. Highlights her books she has published and works she has edited.
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