The Official Nobel Prize website offers press releases, an autobiography, a biography, Mann's acceptance speech and links.

This biography of Booker T. Washington includes some details of his early life and education, plus the more outspokenly anti-racist views of his later life. Click to related pages on the Booker T. Washington National Monument and notes...

Learn about quoting accurately and making inferences on this site. A link provides a model with text and supported inferences.

Margery Kempe's spiritual biography is often called the first autobiography in English this provides access to the material culture of Kempe's 15th century world.

This site from Giverny, Monet's home, has an extensive collection of 85 artworks, photographs of the garden, exhibit information, a biography, quotations, and books. Monet's autobiography was originally published in 1900 in a French...

A brief biography of Laura Goodman Salverson, the "first novelist to explore the immigrant experience in the West." Read about her first Canadian novel, "The Viking Heart," as well as her latter novels and autobiography.

Read about George Seldes (1890-1995), a muckraker and press critic. Read some of his writings from his column "In Fact." Read his autobiography and a brief biography. There are links to other sites about George Seldes. Site by Brass Check.

This site features questions for each of the chapters in Robert Newton Peck's "A Day No Pigs Would Die."

Use this informative site to learn more about the book "Holes," by Louis Sachar. This educational resource gives descriptive activities for this book.

This resource focuses on several of Gary Paulsen's novels. There are resources at the different links featuring lesson plans, activities, teaching guides and more.

Have you ever read the book "The Foxman" by Gary Paulsen? This site features a review of the novel and points to ponder as you discuss it with your students. It also provides several links and a list of related books.