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Sojourner Truth (born Isabella Baumfree) was one of the best-known abolitionists of the nineteenth century. Born a slave in New York in approximately 1797, she was freed in 1828. She took the name Sojourner Truth in 1843 when she began lecturing on the abolition of slavery and for women’s rights.

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“Truth was born into slavery in Swartekill, New York, but escaped with her infant daughter to freedom in 1826. Her b

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This summer, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study held a five-day symposium and workshop on “Biography as History.” Common-place asked Megan Marshall, one of the facilitators of that event, “Why biography?”

I love biography. I always have. As a girl, I spent countless hours in the town library where my grandmother ran the children’s room. There I discovered a series of biographies of famous women—Amelia Earhart and Marie Curie are the ones I remember best. I thrilled to those life stories, which stressed the sense of adventure or mission these accomplished women felt inwardly, even as young girls. Back home, I took apart my roller skates and attached the wheels to the bottom of a wooden box, in an effort to build a go-cart like one the young Amelia Earhart was said to have launched down a ramp off the roof of a work shed in an early attempt to fly.

When I was in the sixth grade, my school piloted a silent-

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Children's Biography

INTRODUCTION
REPRESENTATIVE WORKS
OVERVIEWS AND GENERAL STUDIES
CRITICAL APPROACHES TO CHILDREN'S BIOGRAPHIES
CHILDREN'S BIOGRAPHIES ON ETHNIC AND MINORITY FIGURES
FURTHER READING

Biographies of important cultural, social, and historical figures written for juvenile and young adult audiences.

INTRODUCTION

Children's biography is among the most popular forms of juvenile nonfiction, and several works in the genre have been recognized with major book awards, among them, a pair of Abraham Lincoln biographies—1939's Caldecott Medal-winning Abraham Lincoln by Ingri and Edgar Parin D'Aulaire and Russell Freedman's Lincoln: A Photobiography (1987), which won the 1988 Newbery Award. Yet, despite the genre's continuing relevance, appeal to children, and importance towards young adult education, it remains a highly specialized field in which the demands of accuracy, general interest, and usage are often debated by both critics and educators. Many children's li