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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 ...
Edward Gibbon, by Henry Walton, 1773. Memoirs of My Life and Writings (1796) is an account of the historian Edward Gibbon's life, compiled after his death by his friend Lord Sheffield from six fragmentary autobiographical works Gibbon wrote during his last years.
Living My Life is the autobiography of Lithuanian-born anarchist Emma Goldman, who became internationally renowned as an activist based in the United States.It was published in two volumes in 1931 (Alfred A. Knopf) and 1934 (Garden City Publishing Company).
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.
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 ...
Autotheory is a literary tradition involving the combination of the narrative forms of autobiography, memoir, and critical theory.Works of autotheory involve a first-person account of an author’s life blended with research investigations.
Freedom in Exile: The Autobiography of the Dalai Lama is the second autobiography of the 14th Dalai Lama, released in 1991.The Dalai Lama's first autobiography, My Land and My People, was published in 1962, a few years after he reestablished himself in India and before he became an international celebrity.
In the introduction Asimov explains that he hopes that by including autobiographical information in his story collections, it will be easier to resist editorial pressure to write a proper autobiography. In Memory Yet Green: The Autobiography of Isaac Asimov, 1920–1954 (Doubleday, 1979) is the first volume of Asimov's two-volume autobiography ...