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The Autobiography of Mark Twain is a written collection of reminiscences, the majority of which were dictated during the last few years of the life of American author Mark Twain (1835–1910) and left in typescript and manuscript at his death. The Autobiography comprises a collection of anecdotes and ruminations rather than a conventional ...
The first volume of the autobiography, over 736 pages, was published by the University of California in November 2010, 100 years after his death, as Twain wished. [ 137 ] [ 138 ] It soon became an unexpected best-seller, [ 139 ] making Twain one of a very few authors publishing new best-selling volumes in the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries.
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 ...
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 ...
Margery Kempe (c. 1373 – after 1438) was an English Catholic mystic, known for writing through dictation The Book of Margery Kempe, a work considered by some to be the first autobiography in the English language.
The book — set for January 2025 publication — will make history as the first memoir written by a sitting pope Pope Francis Makes History with New Autobiography “Hope”, Originally Meant to ...
Douglass's best-known work is his first autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, written during his time in Lynn, Massachusetts [82] and published in 1845. At the time, some skeptics questioned whether a black man could have produced such an eloquent piece of literature.
Jarena Lee (February 11, 1783 – February 3, 1864 [1]) was the first woman preacher in the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME). [2] Born into a free Black family in New Jersey, Lee asked the founder of the AME church, Richard Allen, to be a preacher.