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The First Nuclear Era: The Life and Times of a Technological Fixer: 1994 John Wheeler: Geons, Black Holes, and Quantum Foam: A Life in Physics: 1998 Maurice Wilkins: Maurice Wilkins: The Third Man of the Double Helix: 2003 Isaak Khalatnikov: From the Atomic Bomb to the Landau Institute: Autobiography. Top Non-Secret: 2012 Rudolf Peierls
First autobiography of Dalit woman. ... A Shot at History: 2011: I K Gujral: Matters of Discretion: ... This page was last edited on 10 February 2025, ...
Last Words (book) Laughing in the Jungle; Lawyering (book) Let Me Finish; Lettin' It All Hang Out; Liar's Poker; The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid; Life Could Be Verse; A Little Bit Wicked; Little Britches (book) Little White Duck: A Childhood in China; The Long Hard Road Out of Hell; The Long Haul (autobiography) The Lost Boy (memoir ...
Fourteen first ladies of the United States have written a total of twenty-three memoirs. The first lady is the hostess of the White House, and the position is traditionally filled by the wife of the president of the United States, with some historical exceptions. Every memoir by a first lady published in the 20th and 21st centuries has been a ...
Ulysses S. Grant, working on his memoirs in 1885.His Personal Memoirs is considered by historians to be among the best by a U.S. president.. Many presidents of the United States have written autobiographies about their presidencies and/or (some periods of) their life before their time in office.
Saint Augustine of Hippo wrote Confessions, the first Western autobiography ever written, around 400.Portrait by Philippe de Champaigne, 17th century.. An autobiography, [a] sometimes informally called an autobio, is a self-written account of one's own life, providing a personal narrative that reflects on the author's experiences, memories, and insights.
Jens Jacob Eschels (Ge, 1757–1842) – first seafarer's autobiography in German; Benjamin Franklin (US, 1706–1790) – The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin; Mahatma Gandhi (In, 1869–1948) – The Story of My Experiments with Truth; Lee Iacocca (US, 1924–2019) – Iacocca: An Autobiography; Nelson Mandela (SA, 1918–2013) – Long ...
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 ...