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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.
Many authors will use quotations from literature as the title for their works. This may be done as a conscious allusion to the themes of the older work or simply because the phrase seems memorable. The following is a partial list of book titles taken from literature. It does not include phrases altered for parody.
An Autobiography: 1883 Walt Whitman: Specimen Days: 1883 Leo Tolstoy: A Confession: 1884 John Ruskin: Praeterita: Outlines of Scenes and Thoughts Perhaps Worthy of Memory in My Past Life: 1885 Oscar Wilde: De Profundis: 1897 Margaret Oliphant: The Autobiography of Margaret Oliphant: 1899 George Bernard Shaw: Shaw: an Autobiography, 1898–1950 ...
The English version, An Autobiography, bore the subtitle, Experiments with Truth. [10] In the preface, Gandhi states: [4] It is not my purpose to attempt a real autobiography. I simply want to tell the story of my experiments with truth, and as my life consist of nothing but experiments, it is true that the story will take the shape of an ...
Memoir – similar to an autobiography, except that memoirs generally deal with specific events in the life of the author. Myth – an ancient story often meant to explain the mysteries of life or nature. News – information on current events which is presented by print, broadcast, Internet, or word of mouth to a third party or mass audience.
Title of book Year Remarks Banarasidas: Ardhakathānaka: 1641: Braj Bhasha Rassundari Devi: Aamar Jiban: 1876: Bengali Bhagat Singh: Why I Am An Atheist: 1931: Narmad: Mari Hakikat: 1933: Gujarati B. R. Ambedkar: Waiting for a Visa: 1935: The book is used as a textbook in Columbia University. [1] Jawaharlal Nehru: An Autobiography: 1936 ...
Part One of the Autobiography is addressed to Franklin's son William, at that time (1771) Royal Governor of New Jersey.While in England at the estate of the Bishop of St Asaph in Twyford, the 65-year-old Franklin begins by describing his parents and grandparents, recounting his childhood, expressing his fondness for reading, and narrating his apprenticeship to his brother James Franklin, a ...
Because an autobiographical novel is partially fiction, the author does not ask the reader to expect the text to fulfill the "autobiographical pact". [2] Names and locations are often changed and events are recreated to make them more dramatic but the story still bears a close resemblance to that of the author's life.