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  2. Autobiography - Wikipedia

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    The term "fictional autobiography" signifies novels about a fictional character written as though the character were writing their own autobiography, meaning that the character is the first-person narrator and that the novel addresses both internal and external experiences of the character. Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders is an early example.

  3. Biography - Wikipedia

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    An authorized biography is written with the permission, cooperation, and at times, participation of a subject or a subject's heirs. An unauthorized biography is one written without such permission or participation. An autobiography is written by the person themselves, sometimes with the assistance of a collaborator or ghostwriter.

  4. First-person narrative - Wikipedia

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    First-person narration is more difficult to achieve in film; however, voice-over narration can create the same structure. [15] An example of first-person narration in a film would be the narration given by the character Greg Heffley in the film adaptation of the popular book series Diary of a Wimpy Kid.

  5. Wikipedia : Manual of Style/Biography

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    The lead section should summarise with due weight the life and works of the person. When writing about controversies in the lead section of a biography, relevant material should neither be suppressed nor allowed to overwhelm: always pay scrupulous attention to reliable sources, and make sure the lead correctly reflects the entirety of the article.

  6. Maya Angelou - Wikipedia

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    Angelou acknowledged that she followed the slave narrative tradition of "speaking in the first-person singular talking about the first-person plural, always saying I meaning 'we'". [154] Scholar John McWhorter calls Angelou's books "tracts" [142] that defend African American culture and fight negative stereotypes. According to McWhorter ...

  7. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin - Wikipedia

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    W. T. Franklin did not include Part Four because he had previously traded away the original hand-written holograph of the Autobiography for a copy that contained only the first three parts. Furthermore, he felt free to make unauthoritative stylistic revisions to his grandfather's autobiography, and on occasion followed the translated and ...

  8. John Pearson (author) - Wikipedia

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    Pearson's book Facades was the first full-scale biography of the Sitwell siblings Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell. It was published in 1978. Pearson had also written five novels. Storm Jameson praised his first novel, Gone to Timbuctoo, as "an unusually good first novel, an exciting story, and a splendid setting in French West Africa. The writing ...

  9. List of autobiographies - Wikipedia

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    A MiG-15 to Freedom: Memoir of the Wartime North Korean Defector Who First Delivered the Secret Fighter Jet to the Americans in 1953: 1996 Charles W. Dryden: A-Train: Memoirs of a Tuskegee Airman: 1997 James V. Hartinger: From One Stripe to Four Stars: 1997 Frank E. Petersen: Into the Tiger's Jaw: America's First Black Marine Aviator: 1998 Paul ...