The Wright Brothers
by David McCullough | 
Empire of the Summer Moon
by S. C. Gwynne | 
The Professor and the Madman
by Simon Winchester | 
Zeitoun
by Dave Eggers | 
Mobituaries
by Mo Rocca | 
Gandhi
by Mahatma Gandhi | 
The Greatest Game Ever Played
by Mark Frost | 
There Are No Children Here
by Alex Kotlowitz | 
The Life of Elizabeth I
by Alison Weir | 
The Meaning of Everything
by Simon Winchester | 
Crazy Horse and Custer
by Stephen E. Ambrose | 
Caesar
by Adrian Goldsworthy | 
Walt Disney
by B. G. Thomas | 
Working
by Studs Terkel | 
Paul Revere's Ride
by David Hackett Fischer | 
Will in the World
by Stephen Greenblatt | 
To the Golden Shore
by Courtney Anderson | 
Yeager
by Chuck Yeager | 
You Can't Win
by Jack Black | 
Joseph Fouche
by Stefan Zweig |
James Baldwin was an American educator and administrator. After his career as an educator he began writing on such topics as legends, mythology, biography, and literature. Fifty Famous People is comprised of short stories about people, some more famous than others. The stories cannot be strictly called biographical but there is truth in each of them. Each person has had a lasting influence and an ethical lesson can be found in each story. Baldwin also wrote Fifty Famous Stories Retold.