Inspiration to Live Your Magic: 75 Inspiring Biographies

involved in her stories, sometimes crying along with guests who were having trouble, that the television station decided to move ...

Paulo Coelho The most widely published Brazilian author of all time, Paulo Coelho has sold close to 100 million copies of his bo ...

So even though he was now middle-aged, Paulo Coelho started on a new career as a novelist. His first two books went nowhere, but ...

Randy Pausch When computer science professor Randy Pausch was given a cancer diagnosis and told he only had “three to six months ...

performance they had ever seen. Dr. Pausch spoke about seizing your dreams and not giving up. He offered insights into computer ...

Richard Branson When he’s not starting up a business or chasing new adventures, Richard Branson can be found tackling problems l ...

sixteen. However, he was fearless, open-minded, and knew how to get along with just about anyone. So Branson played to his stren ...

Robert Munsch A born storyteller, Robert Munsch loves writing stories for young children, and children love reading them. A best ...

accepted, but that got him going as a writer. At first, his books sold slowly and gained just a little popularity every year. Th ...

Roberta Bondar Little did Roberta Bondar’s parents know when they watched her playing astronaut as a little girl that she would ...

After her mission, Roberta Bondar’s curiosity about life in space landed her a new job - heading up an international team studyi ...

Roger Bannister After two years of intense training, Roger Bannister became the first person to beat the four-minute mile and th ...

minutes. The crowd went wild and the news flashed around the world! Roger Bannister had another moment of global glory a few mon ...

Roméo Dallaire Roméo Dallaire went through a horrific experience that changed his life and almost destroyed it; but since that t ...

The terrible slaughter went on for one hundred days and an estimated one million people were murdered before the United Nations ...

Ryan Hreljac Not many seven-year-olds decide to buy a well in an African village, and not many create a foundation to raise mill ...

With the support of his family, Ryan dedicated all of his free time to the “Ryan’s Well Foundation.” Eleven years later, that Fo ...

Sam Walton Sam Walton had a dream: to own his own department store. It was a long and winding road to reach his goal, but he was ...

worked harder. After university, Sam Walton got a job working in a department store and dreamed of one day owning his own shop. ...

Sandford Fleming Sandford Fleming was a whirlwind inventor whose ideas came to benefit not only his home country but the world. ...