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  2. List of autobiographies - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. 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.

  4. List of autobiographies by presidents of the United States

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    The Autobiography of Martin Van Buren: Martin Van Buren: U.S. Government Printing Office: 1920: Posthumously compiled and edited from Van Buren's manuscript materials by John C. Fitzpatrick. Volume II: Mr. Buchanan's Administration on the Eve of Rebellion: James Buchanan: D. Appleton and Company: 1866: Link: Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography ...

  5. Category:Literary autobiographies - Wikipedia

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    Category:Literary autobiographies This is a category for autobiographies or memoirs by literary figures (known for works other than the autobiography), or those in large part concerned with them, for example as partners.

  6. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  7. List of autobiographies by Indians - Wikipedia

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    The biography of Mahavir Singh Phogat, popularized by the 2016 hit Hindi film Dangal: My many Trysts with God 2019 Autobiography - Adisakrit Publishing: Sonu Sood: I Am No Messiah: 2020 Ranjan Gogoi: Justice for the Judge: 2021 Dagdu Maruti Pawar: Baluta: 1978: Annabhau Sathe: Fakira: 1959: part myth, part autobiography Baburao Bagul

  8. Life writing - Wikipedia

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    Life writing is an expansive genre that primarily deals with the purposeful recording of personal memories, experiences, opinions, and emotions for different ends. While what actually constitutes life writing has been up for debate throughout history, it has often been defined through the lens of the history of the autobiography genre as well as the concept of the self as it arises in writing.

  9. Themes in Maya Angelou's autobiographies - Wikipedia

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    Angelou's theme of identity was established from the beginning of her autobiographies, with the opening lines in Caged Bird, and like other female writers in the late 1960s and early 1970s, she used the autobiography to reimagine ways of writing about women's lives and identities in a male-dominated society. Her original goal was to write about ...