This biography of Billie Holiday conveys her hard-luck youth, career triumphs, and then decline and early death. At age 14, despite little schooling, a rape at ten and jail time for prostitution, she moved to New York City to find work as a dancer or singer. She went on to tour …
Presents a biography of Billie Holiday, tracing the life of the famous jazz singer, from her youth in Philadelphia and Harlem to her death at the age of forty-four from complications that were the result of her heavy use of drugs and alcohol.
Learn about a womans desire to study chimpanzees and their behavior and her efforts to promote conservation of wildlife.
Even as a young girl, Jane Goodall was fascinated with animals. As she grew older, she would have the opportunity to begin her research on chimpanzees under the guidance of notable anthropologist Louis Leakey. With Leakey's encouragement and support, Goodall pursued her Ph. D. a…