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My Life as a 10-Year-Old Boy is an autobiography written by Nancy Cartwright.First published in September 2000 by Hyperion, it details Cartwright's career, particularly her experiences as the voice of Bart Simpson on The Simpsons and contains insights on the show, diary entries and anecdotes about her encounters with various guest stars.
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 ...
The opening paragraph should usually provide context for that which made the person notable. In most modern-day cases, this will be the country, region, or territory where the person is currently a national or permanent resident; or, if the person is notable mainly for past events, where the person was such when they became notable.
Boy: Tales of Childhood (1984) is an autobiography written by British writer Roald Dahl. [1] This book describes his life from early childhood until leaving school, focusing on living conditions in Britain in the 1920s and 1930s, the public school system at the time, and how his childhood experiences led him to writing children's books as a career.
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.
Six attempts at an autobiography have survived, conventionally identified by the letters A to F: [7] A: The Memoirs of the life of Edward Gibbon with various observations and excursions by himself (1788–1789). 40 quarto pages (6 missing). B: My own Life (1788–1789). 72 quarto pages. Describes the first 27 years of his life.
MacPherson summarises that "Malala brings her story of courage and hope to young readers in this engaging and beautifully illustrated picture book autobiography." [23] Guy Haydon of South China Morning Post lists the book in a 2017 article entitled, "The 12 best children's books to give this Christmas." Haydon praises Yousafzai's "confident ...
Angelou emphasized the theme of movement by opening the book with a spiritual ("The ole ark's a moverin'"), stating, "That ancient spiritual could have been the theme song of the United States in 1957". [103] This spiritual, which contains a reference to Noah's ark, presents Angelou as a type of Noah and demonstrates her spirituality.