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The Autobiography Of Goethe: Truth And Poetry, From My Own Life: 1848 William Wordsworth: The Prelude: 1850 Leo Tolstoy: Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth: 1856 Alexandre Dumas: Mes Mémoires: 1856 John Neal: Wandering Recollections of a Somewhat Busy Life: An Autobiography: 1869 Sara Coleridge: Memoir: 1874 Thomas Carlyle: Reminiscences: 1881 ...
In his autobiography, American on Purpose, he identifies himself as an autodidact—although a dilettante one (see the article on Jean-Paul Sartre's Nausea). Penn Jillette , a member of the comedy and magic duo Penn & Teller, declared both he and his partner Teller to be autodidacts in an episode of their television series, Penn & Teller ...
My Times: An Autobiography: 2006 Aribam Syam Sharma: Living Shadows: Phoolan Devi: The Bandit Queen of India: 2008 L. K. Advani: My Country My Life: 2009 V. R. Krishna Iyer: Wandering in Many Worlds: 2011 Abhinav Bindra: A Shot at History: I K Gujral: Matters of Discretion: 2012 Arjun Singh: A Grain of Sand in the Hourglass of Time: Hay House ...
Charles Dickens' David Copperfield is another such classic, and J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye is a well-known modern example of fictional autobiography. Charlotte Brontë 's Jane Eyre is yet another example of fictional autobiography, as noted on the front page of the original version.
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.
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is a 1969 autobiography describing the young and early years of American writer and poet Maya Angelou.The first in a seven-volume series, it is a coming-of-age story that illustrates how strength of character and a love of literature can help overcome racism and trauma.
An alphabiography is an autobiography, often set as an English studies project for high school or college students, consisting of a set of twenty-six short stories or chapters about the writer's life. [1] Each story or chapter has a title starting with a different letter of the alphabet, for example: "Apple growing", "Baseball", "Cynthia" etc ...
My Early Life, also known in the US as A Roving Commission: My Early Life, is a 1930 book by Winston Churchill.It is an autobiography from his birth in 1874 to around 1902.