Inspiration to Live Your Magic: 75 Inspiring Biographies

She soon earned a reputation as a brilliant legal mind who could tackle the trickiest situations. Within a few years, she was ta ...

Celine Dion Celine Dion’s story proves that you never know where life will take you, even when you’re one of fourteen children f ...

Ten years later, she was at the height of her popularity, with gold records in both English and French covering her walls. Songs ...

Christopher Columbus As a sailor, sea captain, trader, and explorer, what Christopher Columbus lacked in navigation tools, he ma ...

to get backing for his plan to sail around the world. The experts said it couldn’t be done. One country after another turned hi ...

Craig Kielburger Creator of Free The Children, an organization whose purpose is to free child slaves all over the world and prov ...

needed. Craig’s friends told other friends, parents, teachers... the word spread quickly and Free The Children grew by leaps and ...

Diane Warren A prolific songwriter with six Oscar nominations, a Golden Globe, and Songwriter of the Year awards, Diane Warren h ...

times, among a host of other honors and awards. But Diane Warren did not forget what it felt like to be that lonely girl with a ...

Eleanor Roosevelt As wife of a politician who became president of the United States, Eleanor Roosevelt used her high profile and ...

Thanks in large part to Eleanor, Franklin won the election to become governor of New York State and then, in 1933, to become pre ...

Ferdinand Magellan A sixteenth-century seaman, trader, fighter, and explorer, Ferdinand Magellan was captain of the fleet that t ...

desperate to find a new path to Asia, and he took the chance of backing Magellan’s daring scheme. Now all Ferdinand Magellan had ...

Florence Nightingale Eschewing the upper-class British life into which she’d been born, Florence Nightingale became a nurse on t ...

and virtually no sanitation. More soldiers were dying of diseases in the hospitals than were being killed on the battlefield. Fl ...

Galileo Galilei An astronomer, mathematician, inventor, and author, Galileo Galilei was a rebel genius in the 1600s who was sent ...

moons orbiting Jupiter and Saturn, when the Church said everything was supposed to revolve around the Earth. And Galileo even me ...

Gordon Lightfoot Singer, songwriter, and winner of sixteen Juno awards, Gordon Lightfoot is still writing and performing after m ...

Gordon Lightfoot refused to give up his life as an entertainer. Against all odds, he made a comeback and by 2004, he was recordi ...

Grandma Moses Although Grandma Moses didn’t pick up a paint brush until she was seventy, she still had time to become world famo ...