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Boy: Tales of Childhood (1984) is an autobiography written by British writer Roald Dahl. [1] This book describes his life from early childhood until leaving school, focusing on living conditions in Britain in the 1920s and 1930s, the public school system at the time, and how his childhood experiences led him to writing children's books as a career.
Miles to Go is an autobiography by Miley Cyrus, co-written by Hilary Liftin and published by Disney Hyperion in March 2009. [1] The memoir discusses Cyrus's relationship with her parents, her thoughts on the media, her love life, her future ambitions and milestones she still has to reach in her life. [2]
Martin is a children's author from Princeton, New Jersey. All of the characters in her books are fictional, although some are based on real people. [2] Martin has written many popular children's titles including The Baby-sitters Club series and the California Diaries series. [3] Her book A Corner of the Universe, received a Newbery Honor Award. [4]
Life writing is an expansive genre that primarily deals with the purposeful recording of personal memories, experiences, opinions, and emotions for different ends. While what actually constitutes life writing has been up for debate throughout history, it has often been defined through the lens of the history of the autobiography genre as well as the concept of the self as it arises in writing.
Grylls' autobiography details his life before his career as the host of Man vs. Wild, focusing on his childhood, growing up on the Isle of Wight, and other times in Grylls' early life. [6] [7] Mud, Sweat, and Tears was named one of the best autobiographies for children and teenagers to read by The Guardian. [8]
Philip Aegidius Walshe (actually Montgomery Carmichael), The Life of John William Walshe, F.S.A., London, Burns & Oates, (1901); New York, E. P. Dutton (1902). This book was presented as a son’s story of his father’s life in Italy as “a profound mystic and student of everything relating to St. Francis of Assisi,” but the son, the father and the memoir were all invented by Montgomery ...
The Life of P.T. Barnum, Written by Himself: 1855 Kit Carson: Memoirs: 1856 Harriet Jacobs: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: 1861 John Henry Newman: Apologia Pro Vita Sua: 1864 Harriet Martineau: Harriet Martineau's Autobiography: 1887 Thomas Henry Huxley: Autobiography: 1890 Stendhal: The Life of Henry Brulard: 1890 Stendhal: Memoirs of ...
An autobiography, [a] sometimes informally called an autobio, is a self-written biography of one's own life. Definition The word "autobiography" was first used deprecatingly by William Taylor in 1797 in the English periodical The Monthly Review , when he suggested the word as a hybrid, but condemned it as "pedantic".