We may know about a famous person's accomplishments, but what do we know about THEM? What is the human-interest story in THEIR lives? This biography collection features the stories behind the lives of some famous (and not-so-famous) individuals.
Jason Anderson was the most senior of the eleven men who died in the Deepwater Horizon explosion.
Roy Wyatt Kemp was scheduled to come home, for a time, the day after Deepwater Horizon exploded.
Shane Roshto, an employee of Transocean, was 22 years old on the 20th of April, 2010.
When he was unable to run the entire race, at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Derek Redmond did something even better.
While he was on the run, following his escape from Washington, John Wilkes Booth recorded his thoughts in a diary. Some of its pages are missing, lead...
Dorothea Lange, a famous American photographer who captured the plight of Depression-era people with her camera, took many still-famous pictures in th...
Despite her obvious intelligence, Dorothy Height faced racial discrimination during her youth. Barnard College refused to accept her, but Height was ...
The story of how Robert Louis Stevenson wrote Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is almost as interesting as the work itself.
During the summer of 1964, known as "Freedom Summer," college students try to help African-Americans register to vote for the upcoming federal electio...
Portrait of Dr. Guillotin who sought a more-humane method of capital punishment during the French Revolution.
Meet Dylan Thomas who lived hard, wrote beautifully and died young (at 39) while leaving behind some of the most-loved poems written in English.
Known for the musical word rhythms which he created, Poe is often-called one of America's greatest poets.
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