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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
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 ...
The number of women speaking at the General Assembly has historically been few: in 2021, it was 18, last year, 22. The lack of women's representation was noted by several speakers, including South ...
The Blue Octavo Notebooks (sometimes referred to as The Eight Octavo Notebooks) is a series of eight notebooks written by Franz Kafka from late 1917 until June 1919. The name was given to them by Max Brod, Kafka's literary executor, to differentiate them from the regular quarto-sized notebooks Kafka used as diaries.