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Diary and commonplace book. [28] Claude Mauriac: Unknown: 69 years: 1927–1995: Lejeune gives both 68 and 69 years. "We have yet to count the total number of pages, but the journal measures three and a half meters." [29] William Lyon Mackenzie King: Unknown: 57 years: 1893–1950: Word count not stated; the manuscript exceeds 50,000 pages. [30]
He was listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as having the world's longest diary, until the journals of Robert Shields of Dayton, Washington, with 37.5 million words and crammed with minutes of daily living, were revealed in 1994. [2] Ellis authored books on the Great Depression and New York City, as well as a study of suicide.
A Book of One's Own: People and their diaries by Thomas Mallon, 1984. The Journal Book, edited by Toby Fulwiler, 1987. (Collection of essays on using journals in K12 classrooms.) Journal to the Self: twenty-two paths to personal growth by Kathleen Adams, 1990.
Robert William Shields (May 17, 1918 – October 15, 2007) was an American minister and high school English teacher best known for writing a diary of 37.5 million words, which chronicled every five minutes of his life from 1972 until a stroke disabled him in 1997.
The third category lists hoax diaries, that were presented as being true diaries of real people when first published, but were later discovered to be fiction. Go Ask Alice , the first of a number of books by Beatrice Sparks purported to be based on diaries of real teenagers, was originally presented by Sparks as the non-fictional diary of an ...
J. Jerry's Diary; John Evelyn's Diary; The Journal of a Disappointed Man; Journal of a Novel; The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon; The Journal of John Woolman
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