Inspiration to Live Your Magic: 75 Inspiring Biographies

concerts to set off for the poor African country of Gabon, where there was a critical shortage of medical care. He and his wife ...

Alfred Nobel Can you imagine reading your own obituary in the newspaper? What would people say about you? Alfred Nobel got the c ...

foundation would consult the leading experts in the world and hand out prizes to people who had made great contributions to huma ...

Alice Waters Besides being a world-renowned chef and creator of the famous California restaurant Chez Panisse, Alice Waters runs ...

more restaurants, TV shows, and other ways of building on their wealth and fame - but not Alice Waters. For her, the money and r ...

Amelia Earhart A record-setting aviation pioneer and adventurer, Amelia Earhart was a celebrity and advocate for women’s equalit ...

license. Amelia Earhart became somewhat of a celebrity and set out to promote flying, especially for women. Her fame skyrocketed ...

Andrew Lloyd Webber Composer, writer, and producer of the most popular musicals of all time, Andrew Lloyd Webber is an Oscar, Gr ...

The musicals he created from that artistic fusion include the most popular of all time. His shows, including Cats, Joseph and th ...

Anne Frank Author of a diary that chronicled the fate of a Jewish family in Nazi Germany, teenager Anne Frank died in a concentr ...

Anne’s father was sent to one death camp; the two girls and their mother were sent to another. Anne’s mother gave all her food t ...

Beatrice Biira After her family was rescued from desperate poverty by being given a goat, young Beatrice Biira was able to get a ...

created a book entitled Beatrice’s Goat to explain how just one goat, cow, or other farm animal can rescue a family from poverty ...

Beatrix Potter Storyteller, illustrator, nature lover, and self-taught nature expert, Beatrix Potter went from leading an extrem ...

taken a woman seriously. Beatrix felt trapped in her parents’ life until someone pointed a way out. Beatrix had written letters ...

Benjamin Franklin Known for both his self-discipline and his sense of humor, Benjamin Franklin was famous for his many accomplis ...

newspaper and popular magazine. He became well known for sayings that are still repeated today, such as: “Honesty is the best po ...

Bertha Wilson Not only did Bertha Wilson become the first woman to serve on the Supreme Court of Canada, she also had the courag ...

Soon, she was making the other Supreme Court justices - and the whole country - sit up and take notice. She dared to make ground ...

Beverley McLachlin As a lawyer, judge, and professor, and the first woman to be chief justice of the Supreme Court of British Co ...