Biographies and Personal Narratives

Biographies & Personal Narratives










Abrams, Charlotte. The Silents. Washington, D.C.: Gallaudet, 1996. HQ759.912.A27 1996



Dicaire, David. Blues Singer. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 1999. ML400.D53 1999



Goan, Melanie Beals. Mary Breckinridge: The Frontier Nursing Service and Rural Health in Appalachia. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2008. RT37.B72 G63 2008

Biographies related to Appalachia abound, but this one holds special meaning for the power of one person to change attitudes



Heron, Echo. Intensive Care: The Story of a Nurse. New York: Atheneum, 1987. RT37.H49 A3 1987



Hillenbrand, Laura. Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival Resilience, and Redemption. New York: Random House, 2010. D805.J3 Z364 2010



Lucas, Sean Michael. Robert Lewis Dabney: A Southern Presbyterian Life. Phillipsburg, NJ: R & R Publishing, 2005. BX9225.D2 L83 2005



Part of the Reformed Tradition in America, Dabney's life includes serving in the Confederate army as well as writing one of the most used works of systematic theology in the nineteenth century.



McDougall, Christopher. Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen. New York: Knopf, 2009. GV1061.23.M6 M33 2009



This is a biographical recounting of the Tarahumara Indians of Mexico. Indiana Jones couldn't have done better



Paddleford, Clementine. Flower for My Mother. New York: Henry Holt, 1958. CT275.P14 P3



Russell, Peter. Prince Henry 'The Navigator': A Life. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2000. G286.H5 R879 2000



Russell, Sandi. Render Me My Song: African-American Women Writers from Slavery to the Present. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991. PS153.N5 R87 1991



Collective biographies abound. Among the recognizable names here are Sojourner Truth, Alice Dunbar, Zora Neal Hurston, Angela Davis, and Toni Morrison



Ternier-Gommers, Marie-Louise. Finding the Treasure Within: A Woman's Journey Into Preaching. Ottawa, Canada: Novalis, 2002. BV4211.3.T47 2002



Thomas, Lowell. The Vital Spark: 101 Outstanding Lives. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1959. CT104.T537



This collected biography features biographies of men and women from the earliest ages to the 1950's. Of interesting note, are the pictures and illustrations throughout the book