13 best new biographies

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Getting an education was not easy for Malala

Malala was just 11 years old when going to school became unsafe. Girls over the age of 10 could not go to school anymore because of new laws. Malala was horrified. She loved to read and learn. Her dream was to be a doctor.

She was determined to learn

Malala went to school secretly. She hid her books under her shawl. She kept her head down and hurried to class, hoping she wouldn’t be noticed on the way. At night, Malala hid her books under her bed. She worried about what might happen next.

Malala spoke out against inequality

She spoke to reporters about education for girls and called for an end to child labor, which forced children to work. People noticed Malala’s activism. In 2011, she was given an important award: Pakistan’s first National Peace Prize. It came to be known as the Malala Prize.

She was recognized around the world for her bravery

Malala knows there is more work to do, but she believes that with many voices joining hers, change will happen. She hopes that one day all girls will have choices about how to live their lives.

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Neil had always dreamed about flight

As a child, Neil dreamed about floating above the earth night after night. He would hold his breath and rise slowly into the air. Houses and trees and cars grew small beneath him.

He got his pilot’s license at only 16 years old

After serving as a pilot in the U.S. military, Neil became a test pilot, helping design and fly brand-new aircraft.

Neil applied to NASA to become an astronaut

He wasn’t sure if human beings would ever reach other worlds, but the idea was thrilling. If it was going to happen, he wanted to be a part of it.

He became the first person to step foot on the moon

Neil had always longed to do something no one else had done. Now he’d done it—he successfully landed on the moon. Millions back on Earth heard his words: “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.”

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Spurgeon: A Biography

Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-92) is a name with which every Christian should be familiar. His ministry reached far beyond his London congregation. Not a man to water down his message to attract hearers, his doctrinally rich sermons – as preached and published – provide the meat of biblical Christianity to rich and poor alike.

Spurgeon’s was a life of purpose. He was a man of prayer, but also of intense and varied activity – a man who had a keen social concern, as well as a desire to see churches planted and young men trained for the gospel ministry.

He was humble and warm-spirited, a man who even in times of suffering pointed people to Jesus Christ. His resolute stand for the authority of the Bible in an age of compromise makes him an example for today’s church.

Arnold Dallimore’s concise and sympathetic biography will be an excellent introduction for those who know little or perhaps nothign of Spurgeon, and will also stir the interest of all who value the lessons of a unique and faithful ministry.

The Author

Arnold A. Dallimore (1911-1998) was born in Canada of British parents. He was pastor of the Baptist Church at Cottam, Ontario, for almost twenty-four years. During his studies at Central Baptist Seminary, Toronto, he was awakened to a life-long interest in the great evangelist George Whitefield, whose biography he was to write (2 volumes, published by the Trust). He also wrote biographies of Edward Irving, the forerunner of the charismatic movement, Susannah Wesley and C. H. Spurgeon, whose preaching at the Metropolitan Tabernacle was frequently attended by his maternal grandfather and his mother (as a small child).