Excerpt - page 13: "... he read and reread the biography she had begun of him when she was thir- teen. ("He has the mind of an author exactly," one passage ..."
Excerpt - Back Cover: "... SCHOLASTIC BIOGRAPHY 0 Voices of a changing America.... They are teen immigrants. Thousands of them enter America each year, ..."
Excerpt - page 958: "... however. Undoubtedly his most important contribution to the annals of biography was the fif- teen-page sketch of the life of Meriwether Lewis published in the ..."
Excerpt - page 8: "... 7 He had just entered his teens when his family left Tennessee for northern Mississippi. According to an 1868 biography to which he gave his blessing, William Forrest's finances had ..."