Famous biographies for young people

Brief biographies of eight American women who have excelled in bowling, skating, diving, golf, skiing, swimming, tennis, or track.

Biographical sketches of thirteen contemporary American writers of humorous verse: Franklin Pierce Adams, Richard Willard Armour, Margaret Fishback, Arthur Guiterman, Oliver Herford, Samuel Goodman Hoffenstein, Donald Robert Perry Marguis, Phyllis McGinley, Christopher Darlington Morley, Ogden Nash, Dorothy Parker, James Whitcomb Riley, and Bert Leston Taylor.

Includes material on the Fiske Jubilee Singers, James A. Bland, Bert Williams, Bill Robinson, Leadbelly, Jelly Roll Morton, Roland Hayes, William Grant Still, Bessie Smith, Duke Ellington, Ethel Waters, Louis Armstrong, Marian Anderson, Bennie Benjamin, Mahalia Jackson, Dean Dixon, Lena Horne, and famous jazz musicians.