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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.
Fox Two: The Story of America's First Ace in Vietnam: 1984 Gerhard Neumann: Herman the German: Enemy Alien U.S. Army Master Sergeant: 1984 Stanley Hooker: Not Much of an Engineer: 1985 Al Mooney: The Al Mooney Story: They All Fly Through the Same Air: 1985 Chuck Yeager: Yeager: An Autobiography: 1985 Roald Dahl: Going Solo: 1986 Haywood S. Hansell
Biography portal; These books have won the American Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography. For articles about the prize-winning writers, see Category:Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography winners. See also Category:Pulitzer Prize for History–winning works.
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: Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography ...
Make Light of It: Collected Stories of William Carlos Williams (1950) Autobiography (1951) W. W. Norton & Co. (1 February 1967) The Build-Up (1952) – Completes the "Stecher trilogy" begun with White Mule. Selected Essays (1954) The Selected Letters of William Carlos Williams (1957) I Wanted to Write a Poem: The Autobiography of the Works of a ...
"Such, Such Were the Joys" is a long autobiographical essay by the English writer George Orwell.. In the piece, Orwell describes his experiences between the ages of eight and thirteen, in the years before and during World War I (from September 1911 to December 1916), while a pupil at a preparatory school: St Cyprian's, in the seaside town of Eastbourne, in Sussex.
He urges the reader to take writing and his advice seriously. [5]: 103–107 The third section, "Toolbox", discusses English mechanics and the importance of vocabulary, grammar and style in writing. [5]: 111–137 The fourth section, "On Writing", details King's advice on the art of writing.
Angelou's theme of identity was established from the beginning of her autobiographies, with the opening lines in Caged Bird, and like other female writers in the late 1960s and early 1970s, she used the autobiography to reimagine ways of writing about women's lives and identities in a male-dominated society. Her original goal was to write about ...