Inspiration to Live Your Magic: 75 Inspiring Biographies

woman who was about to take the art world by storm started selling her paintings for two to three dollars each. Then, when Moses ...

Gustavo Dudamel World-famous conductor Gustavo Dudamel, “the lightning conductor”, can turn a solid old symphony into “molten la ...

Dudamel decided to introduce the program to the United States, and the hard streets of Los Angeles were a perfect place to start ...

Hayley Wickenheiser An amazing, record-breaking female hockey player, Hayley Wickenheiser’s love of hockey started when she was ...

Her dedication made her not only an award-winning player, but also an inspiring role model for other girls. After becoming a sta ...

Hazel McCallion Not only has Hazel McCallion been the highly popular mayor of Mississauga for an unheard-of thirty-three years, ...

She not only won that first election, she has won every single election since - a remarkable string of twelve consecutive electi ...

Helen Keller Although blind and deaf, Helen Keller became a scholar, author, speaker, advocate for social justice, and one of th ...

sponge. Accompanied by the loyal Anne Sullivan, Keller went to school and soon excelled as a student. She was even accepted by a ...

J. K. Rowling J. K. Rowling planned out her entire book series before she started writing the first one - by hand. Twelve publis ...

The first twelve publishers turned her down. Number thirteen said, “Yes” - mainly because the little girl of the company’s chair ...

Jacques Cousteau Famous for his award-winning underwater films, television shows, and books that gave the world a view of life u ...

His long career (Cousteau lived to age eighty-seven) contained many other amazing achievements: The first underwater archaeolog ...

Jean Vanier Jean Vanier’s belief that people with developmental disabilities should live in communities rather than in isolation ...

We are all “broken” in different ways, says Vanier - meaning that we all have difficulty dealing with certain issues or seeing o ...

John F. Kennedy A young, dynamic, and well-loved president, JFK was passionate about ending racial discrimination in America, cr ...

crisis after another. In 1962, Kennedy faced what is known as the Cuban Missile Crisis. It was one of two major confrontations d ...

Joseph Pulitzer A journalist, investigative reporter, publisher, and advocate for freedom of the press, Joseph Pulitzer also sta ...

dodgers. People loved this new, crusading style of journalism, and circulation soared. Joseph Pulitzer kept working hard even af ...

Laura Secord In the early 1800s, when Laura Secord overheard American soldiers planning a sneak attack on a British/Canadian out ...