Start with high-confidence writers' lives for kids books, then narrow by subgenre or adjacent topics.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
William Anderson
Bard of Avon: the Story of William Shakespeare
Diane Stanley, Peter Vennema
Going Solo
Roald Dahl
The Seuss, the Whole Seuss and Nothing But the Seuss
Charles Cohen
A Girl From Yamhill
Beverly Cleary
Lives of the Writers
Kathleen Krull
The Brontë Sisters
Catherine Reef
Looking Back
Lois Lowry
Charles Dickens and the Street Children of London
Andrea Warren
Who Was Langston Hughes?
Billy Merrell
The Abracadabra Kid
Sid Fleischman
Mr. Rogers
George E. Stanley
Alphamaniacs
Paul Fleischman
Cliffsnotes on Lee's to Kill a Mockingbird
Cliffs, Tamara Castleman
Somewhere, a Boy and a Bear
Gyles Brandreth
Before They Were Authors: Famous Writers As Kids
Elizabeth Haidle
Louisa Learns to Write
Kate Hannigan
Kurt Vonnegut
Dan Wakefield
