Elisabeth P Myers

Recounts the girlhood of Katharine Lee Bates, the poetess who wrote America the beautiful.

A biography concentrating on the childhood of the self-made millionaire emphasizing his business acumen and philanthropic projects.

A biography of the American author whose life and works were greatly influenced by her childhood in China.

A biography of the founder and director of the self-sustaining Berry Schools of Georgia, where students work instead of paying tuition, and receive practical as well as academic training.

A biography of the black poet whose poems were influenced greatly by jazz and blues rhythms.

The story of an immigrant boy who became a radio and television pioneer, and was a founder of the National Broadcasting Company.

A biography of Franklin D. Roosevelt's Secretary of Labor, the first woman to be appointed to the United States Cabinet.

Concentrates on the childhood of Edward Bok who became the editor of Ladies Home Journal and the first to obtain a magazine circulation of one million copies a month.

Presents an account of the childhood of the author of "Common Sense," a tract that influenced many colonists during the American Revolution.