Conroy, Frank, Stop-Time, Viking Press, 1967.

The critics have noted that this stellar autobiography about Conroy's youth and the storyline in Body and Soul are very similar.

Decker, Jeffrey Louis, Made in America: Self-Styled Success from Horatio Alger to Oprah Winfrey, University of Minnesota Press, 1997.

The achievements of a number of entrepreneurs from a variety of fields are examined in terms of how race, gender, and ethnicity fit into the American Dream.

Kenneson, Claude, and Van Cliburn, Musical Prodigies: Perilous Journeys, Remarkable Lives, Amadeus Press, 1999. The journeys from early youth to fame of forty-four musical prodigies from the eighteenth century to the present are chronicled in this book by a noted cello teacher and one of the world's most famous pianists.

Schoenberg, Arnold, ed., Fundamentals of Musical Composition, translated by Leonard Stein and Gerald Strang, Faber, 1982.  This book provides basic information about composition terminology and...