Inspiration to Live Your Magic: 75 Inspiring Biographies

He finished the survey job by 1876, and the railway was finished in 1885. Fleming was on hand when they drove the last spike to ...

Shania Twain Shania Twain’s long, slow road to fame included poverty, many disappointments, and a terrible tragedy. But when she ...

half-brothers and half-sister. So Eileen moved back in with them, and supported her family by singing at a local resort. She was ...

Shirin Ebadi Under a regime where dissidents and intellectuals often disappeared or were murdered, Shirin Ebadi, Iran’s first wo ...

cases involving dissidents who were in trouble with the government, and helped get a more liberal president elected in Iran. But ...

Stephen Leacock Though he was a political scientist and economist, Stephen Leacock is not known for his writing on those subject ...

Even then, Leacock had a hard time. He had married a wealthy young woman and they tried for fifteen years to have a child. Then ...

Terry Fox Life as he had known it ended for Terry Fox when he was twenty. But in the face of tragedy, he created a dream that in ...

Terry’s goal was to raise one dollar for every Canadian to fund cancer research, a total of $24 million. When Terry had to quit ...

Thomas Edison Being an inventor, says Thomas Edison, is not all about having great ideas; it’s mostly about working hard and nev ...

stopped thinking about better ways to solve a problem. In his first job, when he was a teenager, Edison was taught how to use a ...

Walt Disney Sometimes it just takes one good idea to get started on the road to fame, but the good idea often comes after many y ...

instead, and so the most popular cartoon character in history was born. With his first sound cartoon, “Steamboat Willie starring ...

Wangari Maathai Some people, by their nature, ignore the status quo and ignore the odds, and go where no one has gone before. Th ...

representatives from many nations were able to see and hear what she was doing. That’s when the Green Belt Movement really took ...

Wayne Gretzky They told him he was too small, too slow, and too weak. But what those coaches and scouts from thirty years ago di ...

time he retired in 1999, he held forty regular-season records, fifteen playoff records, and six All-Star records. With more than ...

William “Billy” Bishop Air Marshal Billy Bishop was a daring World War I fighter pilot who won the Military Cross, the Distingui ...

one. The average British pilot lasted only eleven days! But the Germans had never seen anyone like Billy Bishop in action. Bisho ...

William Harvey Although brilliant William Harvey became the doctor of choice for the wealthy, the nobility, and even the King of ...