Biography — stories and articles
Everything on WonderBooks tagged Biography: 3 articles and 137 illustrated stories, free to read with audio narration.
Articles
- Alexander the Great: Man, Myth, and History
- Catherine the Great: Is Her Story True, or Just a Legend?
- Is the Cinderella Man a True Story? How Hollywood Shaped a Real Life
Illustrated stories
- Abraham Lincoln
- Ada Lovelace
Great Women in Science • 19th century - Akbar the Great
- Alexander Graham Bell
- Alexander the Great
- Alfred Nobel
- Alice Augusta Ball
Great Women in Science • 20th century - Alice Ball
Great Women in Science • 20th century - Anton Chekhov
- Archimedes
- Auguste Rodin
- Benjamin Franklin
- Billie Holiday
- Carl Linnaeus
- Catherine the Great
- Charlemagne
- Charles Babbage
- Charles Dickens
- Chien-Shiung Wu
Nobel Prize Winners in Physics - Christiane Nusslein-Volhard
Great Women in Science - Claude Monet
- Cleopatra
- Dante Alighieri
- Dian Fossey
Great Women in Science - Diego Rivera
- Dmitri Mendeleev
- Donna Strickland
Nobel Prize Winners in Physics - Dorothy Hodgkin
Great Women in Science • 1910 - Douglas Engelbart
- Eli Whitney
- Elias Howe
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- Emily Dickinson
- Emmeline Pankhurst
- Federico Fellini
- Ferdinand von Zeppelin
- Franklin D Roosevelt
- Frederick Douglass
- Frida Kahlo
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Genghis Khan
- George de Mestral
- George Orwell
- George Washington
- Georgia O Keeffe
- Gottlieb Daimler
- Grace Hopper
- Guglielmo Marconi
- Hatshepsut: The Regent Who Crowned Herself
- Hedy Lamarr
- Henri Matisse
- Hero of Alexandria
- Ho Chi Minh
- Homer
- Hypatia
- Indira Gandhi
- Inge Lehmann
Great Women in Science - Isaac Singer
- Jack Kilby
- James Baldwin
- James Watt
- Jane Austen
- Jawaharlal Nehru
- Joan of Arc
- Johann Sebastian Bach
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Johannes Gutenberg
- John Logie Baird
- Jorge Luis Borges
- Josephine Cochrane
- Karl Benz
- Khalil Gibran
- Kwame Nkrumah
- Laszlo Biro
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Linus Pauling
- Lise Meitner
Nobel Prize Winners in Physics • 1930s - Louis Daguerre
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- Marcel Proust
- Margaret Thatcher
- Margarita Salas
Great Women in Science • 20th century - Maria Goeppert Mayer
Nobel Prize Winners in Physics • 20th century - Maria Sibylla Merian
Great Women in Science • 17th century - Marie Curie
Nobel Prize Winners in Physics - Marie Curie and the Glowing Element
San Francisco and Paris - Mark Twain
- Mary Anderson
- Mary Anning
Great Women in Science • 1811 - Mary Leakey
- Maya Angelou
- Michael Faraday
- Michelangelo
- Mildred Dresselhaus
Great Women in Science • 20th century - Nikola Tesla
- Nina Simone
- Oscar Wilde
- Elisha Otis
- Otto von Bismarck
- Pablo Neruda
- Pablo Picasso
- Patricia Bath
- Percy Spencer
- Pericles
- Philo Farnsworth
- Queen Elizabeth I
- Rabindranath Tagore
- Rembrandt
- Robert Noyce
- Robert Oppenheimer
- Rudolf Diesel
- Rumi
- Saladin
- Samuel Colt
- Samuel Morse
- Sau Lan Wu
The Standard Model • late 1970s - Shirley Ann Jackson
Great Women in Science - Simon Bolivar
- Stephanie Kwolek
- Suleiman the Magnificent
- Sun Yat-sen
- Susan B Anthony
- The Wright Brothers
- Theodore Roosevelt
- Thomas Edison
- Thomas Jefferson
- Toni Morrison
- Toussaint Louverture
- Vandana Shiva
Great Women in Science - Victor Hugo
- Virginia Woolf
- Wangari Maathai
- William Shakespeare
- Willis Carrier
- Winston Churchill
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart