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An Autobiography: 1883 Walt Whitman: Specimen Days: 1883 Leo Tolstoy: A Confession: 1884 John Ruskin: Praeterita: Outlines of Scenes and Thoughts Perhaps Worthy of Memory in My Past Life: 1885 Oscar Wilde: De Profundis: 1897 Margaret Oliphant: The Autobiography of Margaret Oliphant: 1899 George Bernard Shaw: Shaw: an Autobiography, 1898–1950 ...
Edward Gibbon, by Henry Walton, 1773. Memoirs of My Life and Writings (1796) is an account of the historian Edward Gibbon's life, compiled after his death by his friend Lord Sheffield from six fragmentary autobiographical works Gibbon wrote during his last years.
The title of John Henry Newman's 1864 Christian confessional work Apologia Pro Vita Sua refers to this tradition. The historian Flavius Josephus introduces his autobiography Josephi Vita (c. 99) with self-praise, which is followed by a justification of his actions as a Jewish rebel commander of Galilee. [4]
Playing It My Way is the autobiography of former Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar.It was launched on 5 November 2014 in Mumbai. [3] [4] [5] The book summarises Tendulkar's early days, his 24 years of international career and aspects of his life that have not been shared publicly. [6]
The green plaque at Riding House Street, London, commemorates where Equiano lived and published his narrative.. The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African, first published in 1789 in London, [1] is the autobiography of Olaudah Equiano (c. 1745 – 31 March 1797), an African from what is now Nigeria who was enslaved in childhood and eventually ...
Part One of the Autobiography is addressed to Franklin's son William, at that time (1771) Royal Governor of New Jersey.While in England at the estate of the Bishop of St Asaph in Twyford, the 65-year-old Franklin begins by describing his parents and grandparents, recounting his childhood, expressing his fondness for reading, and narrating his apprenticeship to his brother James Franklin, a ...
Title President Publisher Date ISBN Notes The Autobiography of Martin Van Buren: Martin Van Buren: U.S. Government Printing Office: 1920: Posthumously compiled and edited from Van Buren's manuscript materials by John C. Fitzpatrick. Volume II: Mr. Buchanan's Administration on the Eve of Rebellion: James Buchanan: D. Appleton and Company: 1866: Link
Category:Literary autobiographies This is a category for autobiographies or memoirs by literary figures (known for works other than the autobiography), or those in large part concerned with them, for example as partners.