Biography/Fiction Matches The list is by no means exhaustive, but it’s a good start!

Muhammad Ali: Trickster in the Irony Try me with... Bryce’s The Power of One of Culture

The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Try me with...Hill’s The Book of Negroes Angelou or Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God Or anything by Toni Morrison

Anna: The story of a Norwegian woman Try me with....Thomas Hardy’s The Mayor of sold into bondage by her husband Casterbridge or Morrison’s Beloved

The Pomegranate and the Rose: The Story Try me with Foreman’s The Duchess or Mantel’s of Katharine of Aragon Wolf Hall, or Erickson’s The Last Wife of Henry VIII

John Atanasoff: The Man Who Invented Try me with Doctorow’s The Win or Little Brother the Computer

Norman Bethune by Adrienne Clarkson Try me with...Lam’s Bloodletting and Other Miraculous Cures or Glaser’s Another War, Another Peace

Benazir Bhutto: Pakistani Prime Minister Try me with...Hanif’s A Case of Exploding and Activist Mangoes or D’Adamo’s Iqbal, or Mortensi’s Three Cups of Tea, (this one is non-fiction so check with your teacher)

The Rise and Fall of Anne Boleyn Try me with Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall or Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter

How do I Love Thee? The story of Try me with anything by Jane Austen Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Julias Caesar Try me with Nordhoff’s Mutiny on the Bounty Or Harris’ Imperium

Emily Carr As I Knew Her or Try me with...Urquhart’s The Underpainter Emily Carr by Lewis DeSoto or James Joyce’s Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Mary Shadd Cary: North America’s first Try me with....Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching black female newspaper publisher God or Stockett’s The Help, Shield’s Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee (non-fiction but a good connection on female writers)

Desert Dawn: The story of Somalian Try me with Allan Stratton’s Chanda’s Secret, born fashion model and Un ambassador Bowden’s Black Hawk Down, or Kamara’s The Bite Waris Dirie of the Mango (check with teacher as this is non- fiction)

Caitlin: Life with Dylan Thomas Try me with...Fitzgerald’s Tender is the Night, Trollope’s The Best of Friends, Shield’s Larry’s Party, or anything by Dylan Thomas

Al Capone: The Biography of a Self- Try me with...Collins’ The Road to Perdition or Made Man Carey’s True History of the Kelly Gang or Hansen’s The Assassination of Jesse James

Capote: A Biography Try me with....Malchy McCourt’s Singing My Hymn Song, or Fitzgerald’s The Love of the Last Tycoon

Casanova: Actor, Lover, Priest, Spy Try me with....Park’s The Secret Book of Grazia Dei Rossi, Slatton’s Immortal, or Dunant’s In the Company of the Courtesan

Leonard Cohen: Hallelujah Try me with Doyle’s The Commitments or Huston’s The Mark of the Angel

Johnny Cash: The Biography Try me with...Doyle’s The Commitments or Ondaatje’s Coming Through the Slaughter

Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain: A Try me with Leacock’s Sunshine Sketches Biography of a Little Town or Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels

Cleopatra Try me with... Foreman’s The Duchess, Dusant’s In the Company of the Courtesan, Gibbon’s Spartacus, or Pullinger’s Mistress of Nothing

Leonard Cohen: A Life in Art Try me with.... Byatt’s Possession or Plath’s The Bell Jar Selkirk’s Island: The True and Strange Try me with... Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe or Adventures of the Real Robinson Crusoe Golding’s Lord of the Flies

Storyteller: The Authorized Biography of Try me with Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Roald Dahl Factory, or Lewis’ Through the Looking Glass Or Baum’s Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz (ebook)

Charles Darwin and the Evolution Try me with Nino Ricci’s The Origin of Species Revolution

Dickens: A Biography Try me with...Byatt’s The Children’s Book or Pearl’s The Last Dickens, Holeman’s Search of the Moon King’s Daughter, or Rackham’s The Rag And Bone Shop

Elizabeth: The Struggle for the Throne Try me with...Erickson’s The Last Wife of Henry VIII

Always Looking Up: The Adventures Try me with... Dalai Lama’s How to Practice the of an Incurable Optimist (Michael Fox) Way to a Meaningful Life (non-fiction so ask your teacher) or Lewis’ The Screwtape Letters

Robert Frost: The Aim was Song Try me with Frosts’ The Road Not Taken Or any anthology of American poetry

Gandhi:Fighter Without a Soul Try me with...Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children, or Forster’s A Passage to India

Glenn Gould: A Life and Variations Try me with... Kleinbaum’s Dead Poet’s or Glenn Gould by Mark Kingwell Society or Ondaatjie’s Coming Through Slaughter

Wilderness Man: The Strange Story Try me with...Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe or of Grey Owl Abignale’s Catch Me If You Can

Hannibal Try me with...Gibbon’s Spartacus or Harris’ Imperium

The Hawk: The Story of Ronnie Hawkins Try me with...Oh What a Feeling (non-fiction and the Hawks so check with teacher)

Old Man Henson, from Slavery to Try me with....Martin’s Property or Jones’ Freedom, the biography of Jim Henson, The Known War, OR Frost’s I’ve Got a Home fugitive slave In Glory Land, Lost Tales of the Underground Railroad (this one is non-fiction, so check with your teacher) The Secret Life of Houdini Try me with...Davies’ The Deptford Trilogy Or Gruen’s Water for Elephants

Citizens Irving: K.C. Irving and His Try me with J. Galsworthy’s The Forsyte Saga Legacy Or Waugh’s Brideshead Revisted

Mick Jagger Try me with....Roddy Doyle’s The Commitments

Joan of Arc: A Military Leader Try me with... Follett’s The Pillars of the Earth or Joan of Arc, A Spiritual Biography or Erickson’s The Last Wife of Henry VIII or Martel’s The Life of Pi

I am Nokomis, Too: The Biography Try me with...Taylor’s Motorcycles and Sweet of Verna Patronell Johnston (Ojibwa Grass or First Voices: An Aboriginal culture broker) Women’s Reader (this is non-fiction so check with teacher)

The Man Who Left Too Soon: Try me with Alice Sebold’s The Lovely Bones The Biography of Stieg Larsson or Hardy’s Tess of the d’Ubervilles

Stephen Leacock Try me with Leacock’s Sunshine Sketches, Haliburton’s Sam Slick Anthology or P.G. Wodehouse’s Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit

John Lennon: A Life Try me with...Roddy Doyle’s The Commitments Or A.S. Byatt’s Still Life

Kaffir Boy: The True Story of a Black Try me with... Courtenay’s The Power of One Youth’s Coming of Age in Apartheid Or Kidd’s The Secret Life of Bees South Africa

The Autobiography of Martin Luther King Try me with... Hills’ Any Known Blood, Jones’ The Known World, or Stockett’s The Help

The Life of Yousuf Karsh Try me with Wiggins’ Shadow Catcher or Govier’s Angel Walk

Helen Keller: The Story of My Life Try me with...Saramango’s Blindness or Le Guin’s Gifts

Margaret Laurence: Dance on the Earth Try me with...anything by W.O. Mitchell (prairie fiction) Stephen Leacock: A Biography Try me with...Davies’ The Papers of Samuel Marchbanks or Twains’ The Complete Short Stories

Nelson Mandela: No Easy Way to Freedom Try me with... Paton’s Cry the Beloved Country) or Lessing’s The Grass is Singing, or Dumas’ The Count of Monte Cristo (theme: imprisonment)

(Colin Maxwell) Child Finder Try me with...Stratton’s Chanda’s Wars, Christopher’s Stolen or Banks’ The Sweet Hereafter

Margaret Mead: A Portrait Try me with...K.Reich’s Grave Secrets

The True History of the Elephant Man, Try me with...S. Maugham’s Of Human Bondage, Biography of John Merrick Or Keyes’ Flowers for Algernon or Hugo’s Hunchback of Notre Dame

Michelangelo Try me with Urquhart’s The Underpainter or Slatton’s Immortal

My Name is Caroline (Miller) Try me with....Sobat’s Gravity Journal or Atwood’s (eating disorder autobiography) Edible Woman

Marilyn Monroe: My Story Try me with...Atwood’s The Robber Bride, or Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, or Fitch’s White Oleander

L. M. Montgomery Try me with Thackeray’s Vanity Fair or A.S. Byatt’s The Children’s Book or compare her life to the life of Susannah Moodie (this one is non- fiction, so check with teacher)

Henry Moore: An Illustrated Biography Try me with Wyle’s And Beauty Answers (a portrait of female sculptors who were contemporaries of Moore-this is non-fiction, so check with teacher)

William Morton: The Battle for Try me with Sinclair Ross’ Sawbones Memorial Oblivion, The Discovery of or Lam’s Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures Anaesthesia

Bay of Spirits: A Love Story (Mowat Try me with London’s Call of the Wild biography) or any fiction by Mowat Mozart: A Cultural Biography Try me with...Slatton’s Immortal

A Beautiful Mind: The Life of Math- Try me with Keyes’ Flowers for Algernon, ematical Genius and Nobel Laureate or Fitzgerald’s Tender is the Night or Plath’s John Nash The Bell Jar

O’Keefe: The Life of an American Legend Try me with... Chevalier’s Girl with a Pearl Earring Or Atwood’s Cat’s Eye

Laurence Olivier Try me with....Robertson Davies’ Tempest Tost

Arise Sir James Oliver: The Biography Try me with Bauermeister’s The School of Essential Ingredients, Powell’s Julie and Julia, or McHenry’s The Kitchen Daughter

Michael Ondaatje: Express Yourself Try me with...McCourt’s Angela’s Ashes or Beautifully Ondaatje’s Cat’s Table (thought to be somewhat autobiographical)

George Orwell Try me with...Huxley’s Brave New World, Bradbury’s Farenheit 451 or anything by Orwell

Rosa Parks: A Life Try me with anything by Toni Morrison, Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God, or Stockett’s The Help

Parrado’s Miracle in the Andes: 72 Days Try me with...Martel’s The Life of Pi or Golding’s on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home Lord of the Flies

A Mighty Heart: The Brave Life and Try me with Heller’s Catch 22 or Vonnegut’s Death of My Husband, Danny Pearl Slaughterhouse 5

Bitter Fame: A Life of Sylvia Plath Try me with...McCullers’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter or Woolf’s To The Lighthouse, or Roy’s The God of Small Things

The Last Honest Man: Mordecai Richler, Try me with Richler’s Barney’s Version or The An Oral Biography Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz

J.K. Rowling: The Wizard Behind Try me with a C.S. Lewis novel or Stewart’s Harry Potter The Hollow Hills

Margaret Sanger: Pioneer of Birth Control Try me with... McKay’s The Birth House Or Irving’s The Cider House Rules Shakey: Neil Young’s biography Try me with Roddy Doyle’s The Commitments or The History of Rock and Roll (non-fiction, so ask teacher)

Mary Shelley: Daughter of Earth and Water Try me with Shelley’s Frankenstein, Stoker’s Dracula, or anything by Edgar Allan Poe

Dr. Seuss Try me with non-fiction books on encouraging reading such as Reading Is Seeing or look at Seuss’ collection of books

John Steinbeck Try me with...Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath, or S. Ross’ As For Me and My House or Ting-xing Ye’s Mountain Girl, River Girl (female migrant workers in China),

John Snow and the Mystery of Try me with Matthew Kneale’s Sweet Thames Cholera or Keith Oatley’s A Natural History

Thane and Markosian: Hope and Recovery, Try me with Sobat’s Gravity Journal or Atwood’s A Mother-Daughter Story about Anorexia The Edible Woman Nervosa, Bulimia and Manic Depression

Trudeau and Our Times or Try me with...H. MacLennan’s Return of the Nino Ricci’s Pierre Elliott Trudeau Sphinx

Trumped: The Inside Story of the Real Try me with...Richler’s The Apprenticeship of Donald Trump Duddy Kravitz

Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Try me with Frost’s I’ve Got a Home in Glory Underground Railroad Land (non fiction, so ask teacher) Or Valer’s Property or Jones’ The Known World

Queen Victoria: A Woman on the Throne Try me with....Byatt’s The Children’s Book Or Miles Isolde’s, Queen of the Western Isle

E.B. White: Beyond Charlotte’s Web and Try me with Adams’ Watership Down or Stewart Little Orwell’s Animal Farm

Oscar Wilde: A Biography Try me with...Richlers’ Joshua Then and Now or Hollinghurt’s The Line of Beauty Or anything by Tenessee Williams (Ray Wiss) FOB: A Doctor on the Front Try me with Hosseini’s The Kite Runner, or Lam’s Lines in Afghanistan Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures or McEwan’s Atonement

Tigers Woods: The Makings of a Try me with.... Kinsella’s Iowa Baseball Champion Confederacy or Shoeless Joe

Virginia Woolf: An Inner Life Try me with...McCuller’s The Heart is a Lonely Hunter or Plath’s The Bell Jar or Lamb’s I Know This Much is True

Shakey: Neil Young’s Biography Try me with...Roddy Doyle’s The Commitments Or A.S. Byatt’s Still Life