Relates the scientific efforts of George Washington Carver, especially his production of more than 300 uses for the peanut.

Focuses on the life and musical career of the composer who wrote a number of popular musicals and brought jazz into the realm of acceptable and respectable music.

A biography of the woman who was awarded both the Pulitzer and Nobel prizes for literature.

Traces the life of the American poet, journalist, and historian whose lifelong interest in Abraham Lincoln led to the publishing of a multi-volume biography which won the Pulitzer Prize.

A biography of the Afro-American farmer and self-taught mathematician, astronomer, and surveyor for the new capital city of the United States in 1791, who also calculated a successful almanac notable for its preciseness.

A biography of the English author and illustrator who grew up during the Victorian era and whose detailed drawings of plants and animals found their way into her famous picture books.

A biography of the Australian nurse who developed a successful method of treating and rehabilitating polio patients and persisted in the struggle, despite ridicule and opposition, to have her methods accepted.

A biography of the inventor and manufacturer who produced one of the first self-scouring plows.

Recounts the story of the German printer credited with the invention of printing with movable type.

Examines the life of the marine biologist and science writer whose book "Silent Spring" changed the way we look at pesticides.