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Angelou's autobiographies are distinct in style and narration, and "stretch over time and place", [2] from Arkansas to Africa and back to the US. They take place from the beginnings of World War II to the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. [2] Angelou wrote collections of essays, including Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now (1993) and Even the Stars Look Lonesome (1997), which ...
To indicate that an article is an autobiography, i.e. a biography of a living person written by its own subject (or someone closely connected to them). Template parameters [Edit template data] Parameter Description Type Status Area affected 1 The part of the article that is an autobiography. Suggested values section subsection article Example section String optional Talk page section talk 2 ...
The Autobiography Of Goethe: Truth And Poetry, From My Own Life: 1848 William Wordsworth: The Prelude: 1850 Leo Tolstoy: Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth: 1856 Alexandre Dumas: Mes Mémoires: 1856 John Neal: Wandering Recollections of a Somewhat Busy Life: An Autobiography: 1869 Sara Coleridge: Memoir: 1874 Thomas Carlyle: Reminiscences: 1881 ...
The Washington Post, the Financial Times, BusinessWeek, and Publishers Weekly also each named The Snowball the best book of 2008. [5] The book was shortlisted for the 2008 Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award , [ 6 ] as well as the 2009 Gerald Loeb Award for distinguished business journalism. [ 7 ]
Maathai discusses her life from childhood until she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004. She discusses her childhood, education in the United States and her return to Kenya, moving on to her life as an environmentalist and political activist, culminating with the victory of the opposition in the 2002, elections against the ruling KANU party and her election to parliament, followed ...
Loren Eiseley: Collected Essays on Evolution, Nature, and the Cosmos (boxed set in 2 volumes) – edited by William Cronon; Contains The Immense Journey, The Firmament of Time, The Unexpected Universe, The Invisible Pyramid, The Night Country, essays from The Star Thrower, and uncollected prose (2016) Library of America. Memoirs
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Frederick Douglass, 1879. Life and Times of Frederick Douglass is Frederick Douglass's third autobiography, published in 1881, revised in 1892. Because of the emancipation of American slaves during and following the American Civil War, Douglass gave more details about his life as a slave and his escape from slavery in this volume than he could in his two previous autobiographies (which would ...