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The Years Flew Past: 40 Years at the Leading Edge of Aviation: 2001 Robert K. Morgan: The Man Who Flew the Memphis Belle: Memoir of a WWII Bomber Pilot: 2001 Peter Masefield: Flight Path: The Autobiography of Sir Peter Masefield: 2002 Donald L. Mallick: Smell of Kerosene: A Test Pilot's Odyssey: 2003 Bernard F. Fisher
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.
Reynolds' claim that because autobiografiction is about "combining forms; fusing, blurring, or moving between the forms of autobiography, story, diary, preface, and so on", it is a meeting point between the facts that all fiction is autobiographical and that all autobiography is fictional and therefore both "autobiographical content ...
[18] [16] The work was reprinted many times through the 19th century, and remained the only published form of Gibbon's autobiography until 1896, when the publisher John Murray produced an edition giving the full text of all six manuscripts. [19] Two years later the American scholar Oliver Farrar Emerson edited the manuscripts along similar ...
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.
For nine years, nine months and nine days Moses was unbeaten in races, winning 122 in a row. No other athlete has come close to breaking that record. While the sports world was consumed with his ...
Life writing has been evident for nearly 2,000 years. St Augustine's autobiographical work being one example from the late 4th century AD. Margery Kempe, an early 15th-century English woman, is believed to have written the first autobiography in the English language, though it was a production that depended upon the help of scribes. This text ...
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