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TAR
Fleming, Alice (Mulcahey) 1928. Ida
Tarbell: first of the muckrakers. New York: Dell Pub. Co, [1976,
1971]. A
biography of the woman who pioneered a new style of journalism in
exposing the malpractice of the oil industry at the turn of the century.
92
TAY
Bauer, K. Jack. Zackary Taylor; soldier, planter, statesman of the old
Southwest.
Louisiana State Univ, [1985]. America's
12th president, Zachary Taylor, was the first
career soldier to serve as Chief Executive. A hero of the
Mexican-American War, Taylor
was faced with the secession of the Southern states over slavery and
turmoil over new territories.
92
TAY
Taylor, Susie King, 1848 and Romero, Patricia W. A
Black woman's Civil War memoirs : reminiscences of my life in camp with
the 33rd U.S. Colored Troops, late 1st South Carolina Volunteers. 1st
M. Wiener Pub. ed. New York: M. Wiener Pub. : Distributed by the Talman
Co, [1988]. Originally
published: Reminiscences of my life in camp with the 33d United States
Colored Troops, late 1st S.C. Volunteers. Born into slavery, Susie
Taylor became free and joined the first black regiment of the Union Army
as a nurse.
92
THO
Horowitz, Helen Lefkowitz. The power and passion of M. Carey Thomas. 1st ed. New York:
Alfred A. Knopf, [1994]. M.
Carey Thomas was the second president of
Bryn Mawr College, a founder of the Johns Hopkins Medical School,
and a leader in the women's suffrage movement.
92
TRU
Bernard, Jacqueline. Journey toward freedom; the story of Sojourner Truth. [1st ed.].
New York: Norton, [1967, 199]. Biography
of Sojourner Truth, who was born into slavery, freed in 1827, and became
famous for her courage, quick wit, and ready challenge as she campaigned
for abolition and women's rights in New York and the Midwestern States.
92
TWA
Twain, Mark. Life on the Mississippi, by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) with
an introduction by J. W. Rankin. New York: Amsco School Publications,
[1874?]. An
account of life on the Mississippi in the old steamboat days and Twain's
experiences as a pilot.
92
TWA
Lauber, John, 1925. The making of Mark Twain : a biography. New York : Boston:
American Heritage Press ; Distributed by Houghton Mifflin, [1985].
Focuses on the early years of the noted author and humorist.
92
TWA
Meltzer, Milton. Mark Twain : a writer's life. New York: F. Watts, [1985]. Surveys
the life of Samuel Clemens, who grew up in Missouri, was a river pilot
on the Mississippi, became a journalist, and achieved fame as a writer
and humorist under the pen name Mark Twain.
92
TWA
Kaplan, Justin. Mark Twain and his world. New York: Simon and Schuster, [1974]. Mark
Twain (1835-1910) was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in Missouri in
November 1835. He grew up in Hannibal, a small town on the Mississippi
River. In his youth he worked as a printer, a steamboat pilot, an army
volunteer, a gold prospector in Nevada, a timber prospector and a
journalist. He used the pseudonym 'Mark Twain' beginning in 1863, and
his first real book, The Innocents Abroad, was published in
1869. He became well known around the world as an author, a lecturer, a
satirist, and a humorist.
92
TWA
Twain, Mark. Mark Twain's notebook. Prepared for publication with comments by
Albert Bigelow Paine. New York: Cooper Square Publishers, [1972 1935].
Excerpts from Mark Twain's own notebooks and journals.
92
TWA
Kaplan, Justin. Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain, a biography. New York: Simon and
Schuster, [1966] A biography of Mark
Twain that begins in his thirties.
92
TWA
Salsbury, Edith Colgate. Susy and Mark Twain; family dialogues.1st ed. New York: Harper
& Row, [1965]. Mark Twain's daughter, Susie, wrote a biography of
her father when she was only 13. She died very young while he was away
on a trip and he later used her journal for material for his own
biography. Excepts from
both accounts are interspersed with comments by the narrator in this
description of the Clemens household.
92 WAL
Siegel, Beatrice. Lillian Wald of Henry Street. New
York : London: Macmillan ; Collier Macmillan, [1983]. A biography of
Lillian Wald (1867-1940), nurse and champion for women's rights. She was also the
founder of the Visiting Nurse Society, and an urban pioneer who evolved
new concepts of public health, led the movement for peace, and pressed
government to assume responsibility for the economic well-being of its
citizens.
92
WAS
Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915. Up from slavery. New
York: Doubleday, [1963]. The
autobiography of the man who, though born in slavery, educated himself
and went on to found Tuskegee Institute.
92
WHA
Lewis, R. W. B. Edith Wharton: a biography. New
York:International Pub. Corp, [1985, 1975]. A biography of the
American author, Edith
Wharton (1862-1937,who was known for her psychological
examination of the moral and social values of middle-class and
upper-class society.
92 WHI
Callow, Philip. From noon to starry night: a life of
Walt Whitman. Chicago: I.R. Dee, [1992]. Portrays the
life and career of American poet Walt Whitman (1819-1892).
92
WHI
Kaplan, Justin. Walt Whitman, a life. New York: Simon and
Schuster, [1980]. Biography
of American poet, Walt Whitman (1819-1892), whose poetry reflected the
great changes that took place in the United States in the nineteenth
century.
92
WIL
Franklin, John Hope, 1915. George Washington Williams, a biography.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, [1985]. A biography of George
Washington Williams (1849-1891), the possible author of the first book
of African American history.
92 WIL
Zochert, Donald. Laura: the life of Laura Ingalls Wilder.
New York: Avon, [1976]. A biography of the writer, Laura Ingalls Wilder
(1867-1957), whose pioneer
life on the American prairie became the basis for her "Little
House" books including The Little House on the Prairie, The Little
House in the Big Woods, The Long Winter, and other popular books.
92
WIL
Baldwin, Neil, 1947. To all gentleness : William Carlos Williams,
the doctor-poet; with a foreword by William Eric Williams. 1st
ed. New York: Atheneum, [1984]. William Carlos Williams
(1883-1963) A biography of a man who successfully combined two
careers as a family physician and as a poet.
92
WIN
Morrison, Dorothy Nafus. Chief Sarah : Sarah Winnemucca's fight
for Indian rights. Illustrated with old prints and photographs
and with maps. 1st ed. New York: Atheneum, [1980]. A biography of Sarah
Winnemucca Hopkins (1844-1891), the Paiute Indian woman, scout,
lecturer, author, educator, and lobbyist who has been called the Indian
Joan of Arc because of her efforts to gain and protect the rights of her
people.
92
WRI
Naden, Corinne J. Frank Lloyd Wright, the rebel architect.
Illustrated with photos. New York: F. Watts, [1968]. A biography
of the innovative American architect, Frank
Lloyd Wright (1867-1959),
whose ideas influenced the direction of design in the twentieth century.
During a professional career of sixty-six years Wright designed 600
buildings. His designs were uncluttered, his life chaotic. This is the
story of the conflict.
92
WRI
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959. An autobiography. New
York: Horizon Press, [1977].
The autobiography of the innovative American architect, Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959),
whose ideas influenced the direction of design in the twentieth century.
92
WRI
Freedman, Russell and Wright, Orville, 1871-1948, ill. The Wright
brothers : how they invented the airplane; with original
photographs by Wilbur and Orville Wright. 1st ed. New York: Holiday
House, [1991]. Follows
the lives of the Wright brothers and describes how they developed the
first airplane.
92 WRI
Glines, Carroll V. The Wright brothers : pioneers of power flight.
New York: F. Watts, [1968]. A biography of the two brothers (unknown
bicycle repairmen, who built and flew the first powered airplane in
1903, which concentrates on their contributions to the history of
flight.
92
YOU
Bringhurst, Newell G and Handlin, Oscar. Brigham Young and the
expanding American frontier. Boston: Little, Brown, [1986]. Presents a biography of the religious leader, Brigham
Young (1801-1877), from his childhood in Vermont to his
rise as the leader of the Mormon Church.
92
YOU
Arrington, Leonard J. Brigham Young : American Moses.
Illini books ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, [1986, 1985].
An historian of the Mormon Church draws on diaries and
letters not available to previous biographers to profile the highly
gifted and controversial church leader, Brigham Young (1801-1877).
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