I love introducing kids to ordinary people who did amazing things by reading picture book biographies for kids. Don't you?

The greatest biographies ever written When someone is in the public eye, we often feel like we know them personally, despite never having met them. That’s where biographies come in. The best ...

Speaking at the annual Wikimania conference, Wales said, “At the moment, we are relatively poor in a few areas; for example, biographies of famous women through history and issues surrounding ...

Augusta Theodosia Drane, a 19th-century English religious leader , published works including poetry, histories, essays and ...

As a self-proclaimed tech geek, I believe there’s no better way to learn these stories than by reading a tech biography. My bookcases are filled with good tech biographies, they remind me that ...

This page lists all of our posts about women in ecology, from all categories. Some are career outlines or brief bios, and others are personal accounts highlighting the contributions of women, past and ...

But life wasn’t always so illustrious for Alfred Nobel.

As New York and Philadelphia became hubs for publishing in the United States, there was a need to sell more books to a ...

There's no author or date on the book, but it appears The Detroit Times first published it in the early 1930s, as additional ...

A new biography, “The Brothers Grimm” by Ann Schmiesing, explores the lives of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm and how they created ...

Famous lives ... The revelation of this finely-researched biography is how transformative she was toward a generation of women authors, becoming a center of gravity for all 20th century fiction.