Denenberg, Barry.Nelson Mandela: “No Easy Walk to Freedom” Scholastic, 1991. Biography of the South African leader and the history of the struggle against apartheid. For younger readers.
Hoobler, Dorothy, and Thomas Hoobler.Mandela: The Man, the Struggle, the Triumph. Watts, 1992. Overall picture of the man and his role in South Africa. For young adult readers.
Hughes, Libby.Nelson Mandela: Voice of Freedom. Dillon, 1992. The personal story and the political struggle of this contemporary leader. For middle school through adult readers.
Mandela, Nelson.Long Walk to Freedom. Little, 1994. Extensive autobiography covers Mandela's birth to May 1994. Also available in an abridged version with 200 photographs as Mandela: An Illustrated Autobiography (1996).
Meredith, Martin.Nelson Mandela: A Biography. St. Martin's, 1998. Admiring but also critical evaluation of the South African president.
Sampson, Anthony.Mandela: The Authorized Biography. Knopf, 1999. A biography that draws on 27 years of unpublished prison correspondence.