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Diary and commonplace book. [28] Claude Mauriac: Unknown: 69 years: 1927–1995: Lejeune gives both 68 and 69 years. "We have yet to count the total number of pages, but the journal measures three and a half meters." [29] William Lyon Mackenzie King: Unknown: 57 years: 1893–1950: Word count not stated; the manuscript exceeds 50,000 pages. [30]
He was listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as having the world's longest diary, until the journals of Robert Shields of Dayton, Washington, with 37.5 million words and crammed with minutes of daily living, were revealed in 1994. [2] Ellis authored books on the Great Depression and New York City, as well as a study of suicide.
A Book of One's Own: People and their diaries by Thomas Mallon, 1984. The Journal Book, edited by Toby Fulwiler, 1987. (Collection of essays on using journals in K12 classrooms.) Journal to the Self: twenty-two paths to personal growth by Kathleen Adams, 1990.
J. Jerry's Diary; John Evelyn's Diary; The Journal of a Disappointed Man; Journal of a Novel; The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon; The Journal of John Woolman
The Reagan Diaries is an edited and published version of the diaries kept by Ronald Reagan during his presidency. The book was edited by Douglas Brinkley and was published by HarperCollins in 2007, three years after Reagan's death. [1] It reached the number one spot on The New York Times Best Seller list. The complete diaries of his presidency ...
Traditional diary studies have evaluated change between individuals, but new studies have been conducted to evaluate within-person changes using diary studies. Through a framework of the generalizability theory, researchers have used a condensed version of the Profile of Mood States (POMS) to study within-person emotional changes via diaries. [10]
Beatrix Potter (1866–1943), English children's book writer and illustrator; Liane de Pougy (1869–1950), French dancer and courtesan; Anthony Powell (1905–2000), English novelist and biographer; Dawn Powell (1896–1965), American writer; Catherine Pozzi (1882–1934), French writer, Paul Valery's lover
One of the earliest printed fictional diaries was the humorous Diary of a Nobody by George Grossmith and his brother Weedon. 20th-century examples include radio broadcasts (e.g. Mrs. Dale's Diary) and published books (e.g. the Diaries of Adrian Mole). Both prompted long-running satirical features in the magazine Private Eye: the former entitled ...