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Over a million words in 45 exercise books. [23] Ernest Achey Loftus: Unknown: 91 years: 1896–1987: Guinness World Record for longest kept diary. [24] [25] Caroline Bray: Unknown: 87 years: 1815–1902: Née Hennell, she was the intimate friend of George Eliot. Diary and commonplace book. [26] Claude Mauriac: Unknown: 69 years: 1927–1995 ...
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.
The Halder Diaries; Heinrich Himmler papers; A History of Yesterday; ... List of books on diaries and journals; List of longest diaries; A Little House Traveler; M.
Elizabeth Wynne Fremantle (1789–1857), English wife of Thomas Fremantle (Royal Navy officer), main contributor to The Wynne Diaries; Donald Friend (1915–1989), Australian artist; Robert Fripp (born 1946), English musician; Max Frisch (1911–1991), Swiss playwright and novelist; Samuel Fritz (1654–1725, 1728 or 1730), Czech Jesuit ...
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.
Nella Last (née Nellie Lord; 4 October 1889 – 22 June 1968) was an English housewife who lived in Barrow-in-Furness, Lancashire, England.She wrote a diary for the Mass Observation Archive from 1939 until 1966 [1] making it one of the most substantial diaries held by Mass Observation.
A modern example includes the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series where each book of the series is written in a first-person view of the main character, as if the book were an actual diary. Other examples are the Bert Diaries and the cellphone diaries in the Japanese manga and anime television series Future Diary .
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.