After 13 years of this program, we are finally getting around to the first and most important leader in American history.

The first person to attain the grand status of rocket scientist was Robert Goddard, a pioneer who laid the groundwork for space travel.

The name of Hatshepsut, a woman who declared herself king of Egypt, was scratched out of the hieroglyphics, but her story is told in this week's biography.

Trial lawyers are popular protagonists in TV and movies, but few are celebrated in biographies, except for Clarence Darrow.

You've likely never heard of General Alexandre Dumas, but his life served as inspiration for the swashbuckling adventure stories written by his famous son.

Dorothea Lange's most famous photograph is of a weather-beaten migrant mother whose face is burned into the American soul.

An immigrant peddler's son, Julius Rosenwald headed to Chicago and eventually became the head of one of the most successful companies in the world.

Would you be interested in a biography of the world's most famous speech therapist, a man you may already be familiar with?

America's take on the detective novel gave us hard-boiled figures like Raymond Chandler's gumshoe Philip Marlowe.

Bach is the grandmaster of German baroque, but so little is known about Bach's life that after his death, he almost disappeared!