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The following is a list of notable autobiographies
Autobiography

An autobiography is a biography written by its subject . The term was first used by the poet Robert Southey in 1809 in the English language Periodical publication Quarterly Review, but the form goes back to antiquity....
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The following is a list of notable autobiographies
Autobiography

An autobiography is a biography written by its subject . The term was first used by the poet Robert Southey in 1809 in the English language Periodical publication Quarterly Review, but the form goes back to antiquity....
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  • Augustine of Hippo, Confessions, 397
  • Peter Abelard
    Peter Abelard

    Peter Abelard was a medieval France Scholasticism philosopher, theologian and preeminent logician. The story of his affair with and love for Heloise has become legendary....
    , Historia Calamitatum
    Historia Calamitatum

    Historia Calamitatum , also known as Abaelardi ad Amicum Suum Consolatoria, is an autobiographical work in Latin by Peter Abelard, one of medieval France's most important intellectuals and a pioneer of scholasticism philosophy....
    , 12th century
  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau

    Jean Jacques Rousseau was a major philosopher, writer, and composer of the eighteenth century The Age of Enlightenment, whose political philosophy influenced the French Revolution and the development of modern political and educational thought....
    , Confessions
    Confessions (Jean-Jacques Rousseau)

    Confessions is an autobiography book by Jean-Jacques Rousseau. In modern times, it is often published with the title The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau in order to distinguish it from St....
     (Les Confessions), 1770, published 1782
  • Thomas de Quincey
    Thomas de Quincey

    Thomas de Quincey was an England author and intellectual, best known for his Confessions of an English Opium-Eater ....
    , Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
    Confessions of an English Opium-Eater

    Confessions of an English Opium-Eater is an autobiography account written by Thomas De Quincey, about his laudanum addiction and its effect on his life....
    , 1821
  • Giacomo Casanova
    Giacomo Casanova

    Giacomo Girolamo Casanova de Seingalt was a Republic of Venice adventurer and author. His main book Histoire de ma vie , part autobiography and part memoir, is regarded as one of the most authentic sources of the customs and norms of European social life during the 18th century....
    , Histoire de ma vie
    Histoire de ma vie

    Histoire de ma vie is both the memoir and autobiography of Giacomo Casanova, a famous 18th century Italian adventurer. A previous, bowdlerized version was originally known in English as The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova until the original version was published in 1960....
    , published posthumously in 1826.
  • Fredrick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
    Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave

    Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is a memoir and treatise on abolition written by famous orator and ex-slave, Frederick Douglass....
    , 1845
  • Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
    Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

    Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is a book that was published in 1861 by Harriet Jacobs, using the pen name "Linda Brent". While on one level it chronicles the experiences of Harriet Jacobs as a slavery, and the various humiliations she had to endure in that unhappy state, it also deals with the particular tortures visited on women...
    , 1861
  • Benjamin Franklin
    Benjamin Franklin

    Benjamin Franklin was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States of the United States. A noted polymath, Franklin was a leading author and Printer , Satire, list of political philosophers, politician, scientist, inventor, activism, statesman, and diplomacy....
    , The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
    The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

    The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is the traditional name for the unfinished record of his own life written by Benjamin Franklin from 1771 to 1790; however, Franklin himself appears to have called the work his Memoirs....
    , 1869
  • Ulysses S. Grant
    Ulysses S. Grant

    Ulysses S. Grant, born Hiram Ulysses Grant , was an United States general and the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States ....
    , Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant
    Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant

    The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant is an autobiography of American President Ulysses S. Grant, focused mainly on the general's actions during the American Civil War....
    , 1885
  • Charles Darwin
    Charles Darwin

    Charles Robert Darwin Royal Society was an English people natural history who realised and presented compelling evidence that all species of life have evolution over time from common descent, through the process he called natural selection....
    , The Autobiography of Charles Darwin 1809-1882
    The Autobiography of Charles Darwin

    The Autobiography of Charles Darwin is the autobiography of the United Kingdom naturalist Charles Darwin which was published in 1887, five years after his death....
    , published posthumously in 1887.
  • Joaquim Nabuco
    Joaquim Nabuco

    Joaquim Aur?lio Barreto Nabuco de Ara?jo was a Brazilian writer and statesman.Born in Brazil, Joaquim was the son of a wealthy landowner named Jose Thomas Nabuco , who was a major political figure in the Brazilian Empire, becoming a lifetime senator and counselor of state....
    , Minha formação
    Minha formação

    Minha forma??o purports to be the autobiography of Joaquim Nabuco, who was a Brazilian writer. It is often cited as a classic of the Brazilian literature, which was first published in 1900....
    , 1900
  • Booker T. Washington
    Booker T. Washington

    Booker Taliaferro Washington was an American educator, orator, author and the dominant leader of the African-American community nationwide from the 1890s to his death....
    , Up From Slavery
    Up From Slavery

    Up from Slavery is the 1901 autobiography of Booker T. Washington detailing his slow and steady rise from a slave child during the American Civil War, to the difficulties and obstacles he overcame to get an education at the new Hampton University, to his work establishing vocational schools?most notably the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama...
    , 1901
  • Helen Keller
    Helen Keller

    Helen Keller was an United States author, political activist and lecturer. She was the first deafblindness person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree....
    , The Story of My Life
    The Story of My Life (biography)

    The Story of My Life, first published in 1903, is Helen Keller's autobiography detailing her early life, especially her experiences with Anne Sullivan....
    , 1903
  • Henry Adams
    Henry Adams

    Henry Brooks Adams was an United States novelist, journalist, historian and academia. He is best-known for his autobiography book, The Education of Henry Adams....
    , The Education of Henry Adams
    The Education of Henry Adams

    The Education of Henry Adams records the struggle of Bostonian Henry Brooks Adams , in early old age, to come to terms with the dawning 20th century, so different from the world of his youth....
    , 1907
  • Mark Twain
    Mark Twain

    Samuel Langhorne Clemens , better known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an United Statesmerican author and humorist. Twain is most noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which has since been called the Great American Novel, and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer....
    , Mark Twain's Autobiography
    Mark Twain's Autobiography

    Published by Harper & Brothers Publishers, Mark Twain?s Autobiography is a two-volume set published over ten years after Twain's death in order to protect the "guilty"....
    , posthumous, 1907
  • Manfred von Richthofen
    Manfred von Richthofen

    Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen was a German fighter pilot known as the "Red Baron". He was the most successful flying ace of World War I, being officially credited with 80 confirmed Aerial warfare victories....
     (The Red Baron), The Red Fighter Pilot
    The Red Fighter Pilot

    The Red Fighter Pilot is a book written by Manfred von Richthofen, a famous German fighter pilot ace with eighty air combat victories to his credit....
    , 1917
  • Nikola Tesla
    Nikola Tesla

    Nikola Tesla was an inventor and a mechanical engineer and electrical engineer. Tesla was born in the village of Smiljan near the town of Gospic, in Croatia ....
    , My Inventions, c. 1919
  • Adolf Hitler
    Adolf Hitler

    Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born Germany politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party , popularly known as the Nazi Party....
    , Mein Kampf
    Mein Kampf

    Mein Kampf, in English language: My Struggle, is a book dictated by Adolf Hitler. It combines elements of autobiography with an exposition of Adolf Hitler's political beliefs....
     (My Struggle)    , 1925
  • Mahatma Gandhi
    Mahatma Gandhi

    Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was a major political and spiritual leader of India and the Indian independence movement. He was the pioneer of satyagraha?resistance to tyranny through mass civil disobedience, firmly founded upon ahimsa or total non-violence?which led India to Indian independence movement and inspired movements for civi...
    , The Story of My Experiments with Truth
    The Story of My Experiments with Truth

    The Story of My Experiments with Truth is the autobiography of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, covering his life from early childhood through to 1920....
    , 1927 and 1929
  • Black Elk
    Black Elk

    Black Elk In 1887, Black Elk traveled to England with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, an unpleasant experience he described in chapter 20 of Black Elk Speaks....
     and John J. Neihardt, Black Elk Speaks
    Black Elk Speaks

    Black Elk Speaks is a 1932 story of an Oglala Sioux Sioux medicine man as told by John Neihardt. Black Elk's son, Ben Black Elk, translated Black Elk's words from Lakota into English ....
    , 1931
  • Gertrude Stein
    Gertrude Stein

    Gertrude Stein was an American writer who spent most of her life in France, and who became a catalyst in the development of modern art and Modernist literature....
    , The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
    The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas

    The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas is a 1933 book by Gertrude Stein, written by Stein in the style of an autobiography by her lover, Alice B....
    , 1933
  • Jawaharlal Nehru
    Jawaharlal Nehru

    Jawaharlal Nehru The son of the wealthy Indian barrister and politician Motilal Nehru, Nehru became a leader of the left-wing of the Indian National Congress at a remarkably young age....
    , An Autobiography
    An Autobiography (Nehru)

    An Autobiography is an autobiography book written by the first Prime Minister of India Jawaharlal Nehru while he was in prison.He was concerned that his father, who was a prominent lawyer in India, disapproved of him going to prison, and he began to wonder how he had ended up there....
    , 1936
  • Richard Wright
    Richard Wright (author)

    Richard Nathaniel Wright was an African-American author of powerful, sometimes controversialnovels, short stories and non-fiction.Much of his literature concerned racial themes....
    , Black Boy
    Black Boy

    Black Boy is an autobiography by Richard Wright . Depicting Wright's life in great detail, the book tells the story of his troubled youth and race relations in the South....
    , 1945
  • Nirad C Chaudhuri, The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian
    The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian

    The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian is an autobiographical work of one of the most controversial writers of India -- Nirad C. Chaudhuri, the last imperialist....
     , 1951
  • Malcolm X
    Malcolm X

    Malcolm X , also known as Hajji Malik El-Shabazz , was an African American Muslim minister, public speaker, and human rights activist. To his admirers, he was a courageous advocate for the rights of African Americans, a man who indicted white America in the harshest terms for its crimes against black Americans....
    , The Autobiography of Malcolm X
    The Autobiography of Malcolm X

    The Autobiography of Malcolm X was written by Alex Haley between 1964 and 1965, as told to him through conversations with Malcolm conducted shortly before Malcolm X's death , and published in 1965....
    , 1965
  • Vladimir Nabokov
    Vladimir Nabokov

    Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov was a Multilingualism Russian-American novelist and short story writer.Nabokov wrote his first nine novels in Russian language, then rose to international prominence as a master English prose stylist....
    , Speak, Memory
    Speak, Memory

    Speak, Memory is an autobiography by writer Vladimir Nabokov....
    , 1966
  • Anaïs Nin
    Anaïs Nin

    Ana?s Nin was a Cuban-France author who became famous for her published journals, which span more than 60 years, beginning when she was 11 years old and ending shortly before her death....
    , The Diary of Anaïs Nin
    The Diary of Anaïs Nin

    The Diary of Ana?s Nin is the published version of Ana?s Nin's own private manuscript diary, which she began at age 11 in 1914 during a trip from Europe to New York City with her mother and two brothers....
    , 1966-76
  • Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
    I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

    I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is the 1969 autobiography about the early years of writer and activist Maya Angelou. The first in a six-volume series, it is a Bildungsroman that illustrates how strength of character and a love of literature can help overcome racism and trauma....
    , 1969
  • Roald Dahl
    Roald Dahl

    Roald Dahl was a United Kingdom novelist, short story writer and screenwriter, born in Wales of Norwegian people parents. After service in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War, In which he became a flying ace, he rose to prominence in the 1940s with works for both Children's literature and adults, and became one of the world's bes...
    , Boy
    Boy (book)

    Boy: Tales of Childhood is the first autobiography book by British writer Roald Dahl. It describes his life from birth until leaving school, especially focussing on living conditions in United Kingdom in the 1920s and 1930s, the public school system at the time, and how his childhood experiences led him to writing as a career....
     & Going Solo
    Going Solo

    Going Solo is an autobiography by Roald Dahl published in 1986. It is a continuation of his first autobiographical volume, Boy .Going Solo talks about Roald Dahl's experiences in his adult life....
    , published 1986
  • Ronald Reagan
    Ronald Reagan

    Ronald Wilson Reagan was the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States and the 33rd Governor of California . Born in Illinois, Reagan moved to Los Angeles, California in the 1930s, where he was an actor, president of the Screen Actors Guild , and a spokesman for General Electric ....
    , An American Life
    An American Life

    An American Life is the 1990 autobiography authored by former American President Ronald Reagan. Released almost two years after President Reagan left office, the book reached number eight on The New York Times bestsellers list....
    , 1990
  • Barack Obama
    Barack Obama

    Barack Hussein Obama II is the List of Presidents of the United States and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office....
    , Dreams from My Father
    Dreams from My Father

    Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance is a memoir by President of the United States Barack Obama. It was first published in 1995 after Obama was elected the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review, but before his political career began....
    , 1996
  • A P J Abdul Kalam, Wings of Fire
    Wings of Fire

    Wings of Fire: An Autobiography of APJ Abdul Kalam is an autobiography of A P J Abdul Kalam, ex-President of India. It was written by President Kalam and Arun Tiwari....
    , 1999
  • Chelsea Handler
    Chelsea Handler

    Chelsea Joy Handler is an American stand-up comedian, humorist, television host, author, and actress. She currently has her own late-night talk show, Chelsea Lately, on the E! Cable Television Network....
    , My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands, 2005
  • Fidel Castro
    Fidel Castro

    Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz is a Cuban revolutionary leader who was prime minister of Cuba from February 1959 to December 1976 and then president, premier until his resignation from the office in February 2008....
    , My Life - A Spoken Autobiography
    My Life (Fidel Castro autobiography)

    My Life - A Spoken Autobiography by Fidel Castro and Ignacio Ramonet was published in Spanish in 2006 , and English in 2007. The book was written by Ramonet based on more than 100 hours of interviews with Castro, and the final text was edited and approved by Castro himself before publication....
    , 2006
  • Ronald Reagan
    Ronald Reagan

    Ronald Wilson Reagan was the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States and the 33rd Governor of California . Born in Illinois, Reagan moved to Los Angeles, California in the 1930s, where he was an actor, president of the Screen Actors Guild , and a spokesman for General Electric ....
    , The Reagan Diaries
    The Reagan Diaries

    The Reagan Diaries is an edited version of diaries written by President of the United States Ronald Reagan while in the White House. The book is edited by Douglas Brinkley, while the full, unedited diaries will be published in 2009....
    , 2007
  • Eminem
    Eminem

    Marshall Bruce Mathers III , known by his primary stage name Eminem, or by his alter-ego Slim Shady, is an American rapper, record producer and actor....
    , The Way I Am
    The Way I Am

    The Way I Am can refer to several items:Songs*The Way I Am , a single by Ana Johnsson from the album Cuz I Can*The Way I Am , a single by Eminem from the album The Marshall Mathers LP...
    , 2008
  • Chelsea Handler
    Chelsea Handler

    Chelsea Joy Handler is an American stand-up comedian, humorist, television host, author, and actress. She currently has her own late-night talk show, Chelsea Lately, on the E! Cable Television Network....
    , Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea
    Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea

    Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea is a 2008 best-selling book by Chelsea Handler that was released on April 22 by Simon Spotlight Entertainment, an imprint of Simon & Schuster....
    , 2008


By name

  • Peter Abelard
    Peter Abelard

    Peter Abelard was a medieval France Scholasticism philosopher, theologian and preeminent logician. The story of his affair with and love for Heloise has become legendary....
    , Historia Calamitatum
    Historia Calamitatum

    Historia Calamitatum , also known as Abaelardi ad Amicum Suum Consolatoria, is an autobiographical work in Latin by Peter Abelard, one of medieval France's most important intellectuals and a pioneer of scholasticism philosophy....
    , 12th century
  • Henry Adams
    Henry Adams

    Henry Brooks Adams was an United States novelist, journalist, historian and academia. He is best-known for his autobiography book, The Education of Henry Adams....
    , The Education of Henry Adams
    The Education of Henry Adams

    The Education of Henry Adams records the struggle of Bostonian Henry Brooks Adams , in early old age, to come to terms with the dawning 20th century, so different from the world of his youth....
    , 1907
  • Nadezhda Mandelstam
    Nadezhda Mandelstam

    Nadezhda Yakovlevna Mandelstam was a Russian writer and a wife of poet Osip Mandelstam.Born in Saratov into a middle-class Jewish family, she spent her early years in Kiev....
    , Hope Against Hope, 1970
  • Maya Angelou, I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
    I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

    I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is the 1969 autobiography about the early years of writer and activist Maya Angelou. The first in a six-volume series, it is a Bildungsroman that illustrates how strength of character and a love of literature can help overcome racism and trauma....
    , 1969
  • Augustine of Hippo, Confessions, 397
  • Fidel Castro
    Fidel Castro

    Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz is a Cuban revolutionary leader who was prime minister of Cuba from February 1959 to December 1976 and then president, premier until his resignation from the office in February 2008....
    , My Life - A Spoken Autobiography
    My Life (Fidel Castro autobiography)

    My Life - A Spoken Autobiography by Fidel Castro and Ignacio Ramonet was published in Spanish in 2006 , and English in 2007. The book was written by Ramonet based on more than 100 hours of interviews with Castro, and the final text was edited and approved by Castro himself before publication....
    , 2006
  • Nirad C Chaudhuri,The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian
    The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian

    The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian is an autobiographical work of one of the most controversial writers of India -- Nirad C. Chaudhuri, the last imperialist....
     1951
  • Black Elk
    Black Elk

    Black Elk In 1887, Black Elk traveled to England with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, an unpleasant experience he described in chapter 20 of Black Elk Speaks....
     and John J. Neihardt, Black Elk Speaks
    Black Elk Speaks

    Black Elk Speaks is a 1932 story of an Oglala Sioux Sioux medicine man as told by John Neihardt. Black Elk's son, Ben Black Elk, translated Black Elk's words from Lakota into English ....
    , 1931
  • Roald Dahl
    Roald Dahl

    Roald Dahl was a United Kingdom novelist, short story writer and screenwriter, born in Wales of Norwegian people parents. After service in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War, In which he became a flying ace, he rose to prominence in the 1940s with works for both Children's literature and adults, and became one of the world's bes...
    , Boy
    Boy (book)

    Boy: Tales of Childhood is the first autobiography book by British writer Roald Dahl. It describes his life from birth until leaving school, especially focussing on living conditions in United Kingdom in the 1920s and 1930s, the public school system at the time, and how his childhood experiences led him to writing as a career....
     & Going Solo
    Going Solo

    Going Solo is an autobiography by Roald Dahl published in 1986. It is a continuation of his first autobiographical volume, Boy .Going Solo talks about Roald Dahl's experiences in his adult life....
    , 1986
  • Charles Darwin
    Charles Darwin

    Charles Robert Darwin Royal Society was an English people natural history who realised and presented compelling evidence that all species of life have evolution over time from common descent, through the process he called natural selection....
    , The Autobiography of Charles Darwin 1809-1882
    The Autobiography of Charles Darwin

    The Autobiography of Charles Darwin is the autobiography of the United Kingdom naturalist Charles Darwin which was published in 1887, five years after his death....
    , published posthumously in 1887.
  • Giacomo Casanova
    Giacomo Casanova

    Giacomo Girolamo Casanova de Seingalt was a Republic of Venice adventurer and author. His main book Histoire de ma vie , part autobiography and part memoir, is regarded as one of the most authentic sources of the customs and norms of European social life during the 18th century....
    , Histoire de ma vie
    Histoire de ma vie

    Histoire de ma vie is both the memoir and autobiography of Giacomo Casanova, a famous 18th century Italian adventurer. A previous, bowdlerized version was originally known in English as The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova until the original version was published in 1960....
    , published posthumously in 1826.
  • Benvenuto Cellini
    Benvenuto Cellini

    Benvenuto Cellini was an Italy goldsmith, Painting, sculpture, soldier and musician of the Renaissance, who also wrote a famous autobiography....
    , Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini, 1728
  • Fredrick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
    Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave

    Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is a memoir and treatise on abolition written by famous orator and ex-slave, Frederick Douglass....
    , 1845
  • Alexandre Dumas, père
    Alexandre Dumas, père

    Alexandre Dumas, p?re , born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie was a French writer, best known for his numerous historical novels of high adventure which have made him one of the most widely read French authors in the world....
    , Mes Mémoires, 1852 - 1856
  • Benjamin Franklin
    Benjamin Franklin

    Benjamin Franklin was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States of the United States. A noted polymath, Franklin was a leading author and Printer , Satire, list of political philosophers, politician, scientist, inventor, activism, statesman, and diplomacy....
    , The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
    The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

    The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is the traditional name for the unfinished record of his own life written by Benjamin Franklin from 1771 to 1790; however, Franklin himself appears to have called the work his Memoirs....
    , 1869
  • Mahatma Gandhi
    Mahatma Gandhi

    Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was a major political and spiritual leader of India and the Indian independence movement. He was the pioneer of satyagraha?resistance to tyranny through mass civil disobedience, firmly founded upon ahimsa or total non-violence?which led India to Indian independence movement and inspired movements for civi...
    , The Story of My Experiments with Truth
    The Story of My Experiments with Truth

    The Story of My Experiments with Truth is the autobiography of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, covering his life from early childhood through to 1920....
    , 1927 and 1929
  • Al-Ghazali
    Al-Ghazali

    Abu ?amid Mu?ammad ibn Mu?ammad al-Ghazali was born and died in Tus, in the Khorasan province of Persia. He was an Islamic theology, Fiqh, Islamic philosophy, Islamic astronomy, Islamic psychology and Sufism of Persian people origin, and remains one of the most celebrated scholars in the history of Sunni Islamic thought....
    , The Deliverer from Error, 12th century
  • Dizzy Gillespie
    Dizzy Gillespie

    John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie [/g?'l?spi/] was an United States jazz trumpeter, bandleader, singer, and composer. He was born in Cheraw, South Carolina, the youngest of nine children....
    , Dizzy: To be or not to bop : the autobiography of Dizzy Gillespie with Al Fraser
  • Ulysses S. Grant
    Ulysses S. Grant

    Ulysses S. Grant, born Hiram Ulysses Grant , was an United States general and the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States ....
    , Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant
    Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant

    The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant is an autobiography of American President Ulysses S. Grant, focused mainly on the general's actions during the American Civil War....
    , 1885
  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

    was a Germans writer and according to George Eliot, "Germany's greatest man of letters? and the last true polymath to walk the earth." Goethe's works span the fields of poetry, drama, literature, theology, philosophy, humanism and science....
    , The Autobiography Of Goethe: Truth And Poetry, From My Own Life, 1848
  • Adolf Hitler
    Adolf Hitler

    Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born Germany politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party , popularly known as the Nazi Party....
    , Mein Kampf
    Mein Kampf

    Mein Kampf, in English language: My Struggle, is a book dictated by Adolf Hitler. It combines elements of autobiography with an exposition of Adolf Hitler's political beliefs....
    , 1925
  • Zora Neale Hurston
    Zora Neale Hurston

    Zora Neale Hurston was an United States folkloristics and author during the time of the Harlem Renaissance. Of Hurston's four novels and more than 50 published short stories, plays, and essays, she is best known for her 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God....
    , Dust Tracks on the Road, 1942
  • Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
    Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

    Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is a book that was published in 1861 by Harriet Jacobs, using the pen name "Linda Brent". While on one level it chronicles the experiences of Harriet Jacobs as a slavery, and the various humiliations she had to endure in that unhappy state, it also deals with the particular tortures visited on women...
    , 1861
  • Thomas Jefferson
    Thomas Jefferson

    Thomas Jefferson was the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States , the principal author of the United States Declaration of Independence , and one of the most influential Founding Fathers of the United States for his promotion of the ideals of republicanism in the United States....
    , Autobiography
  • Helen Keller
    Helen Keller

    Helen Keller was an United States author, political activist and lecturer. She was the first deafblindness person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree....
    , The Story of My Life, 1903
  • Alphonse de Lamartine
    Alphonse de Lamartine

    Alphonse Marie Louis de Prat de Lamartine was a France writer, poet and politician.Born in M?con, Burgundy into French provincial nobility, he spent his youth at the family property at Milly-Lamartine....
    , Les Confidences, 1849, Nouvelles confidences, 1851, Mémoires Politiques, 1963, etc
  • C. S. Lewis
    C. S. Lewis

    Clive Staples Lewis , commonly referred to as C. S. Lewis and known to his friends and family as Jack, was an academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian and Christian apologist....
    , Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life
  • Claude McKay
    Claude McKay

    Claude McKay was a Jamaican writer and poet. He was a communist in his early life, but after a visit to the Soviet Union, decided that communism was too disciplined and confining....
    , A Long Way From Home, 1937
  • John Stuart Mill
    John Stuart Mill

    John Stuart Mill , United Kingdom philosopher, political economy, civil servant and Parliament of the United Kingdom, was an influential liberalism thinker of the 19th century....
    , Autobiography, 1873
  • Yehudi Menuhin
    Yehudi Menuhin

    Yehudi Menuhin, Baron Menuhin, Order of Merit, Order of the British Empire was a violinist and conducting who spent most of his performing career in the United Kingdom....
    , Unfinished Journey: Twenty Years Later, 1999
  • Vladimir Nabokov
    Vladimir Nabokov

    Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov was a Multilingualism Russian-American novelist and short story writer.Nabokov wrote his first nine novels in Russian language, then rose to international prominence as a master English prose stylist....
    , Speak, Memory
    Speak, Memory

    Speak, Memory is an autobiography by writer Vladimir Nabokov....
    , 1966
  • Joaquim Nabuco
    Joaquim Nabuco

    Joaquim Aur?lio Barreto Nabuco de Ara?jo was a Brazilian writer and statesman.Born in Brazil, Joaquim was the son of a wealthy landowner named Jose Thomas Nabuco , who was a major political figure in the Brazilian Empire, becoming a lifetime senator and counselor of state....
    , Minha formação
    Minha formação

    Minha forma??o purports to be the autobiography of Joaquim Nabuco, who was a Brazilian writer. It is often cited as a classic of the Brazilian literature, which was first published in 1900....
    , 1900
  • Jawaharlal Nehru
    Jawaharlal Nehru

    Jawaharlal Nehru The son of the wealthy Indian barrister and politician Motilal Nehru, Nehru became a leader of the left-wing of the Indian National Congress at a remarkably young age....
    , Autobiography, 1936
  • Anaïs Nin
    Anaïs Nin

    Ana?s Nin was a Cuban-France author who became famous for her published journals, which span more than 60 years, beginning when she was 11 years old and ending shortly before her death....
    , The Diary of Anaïs Nin
    The Diary of Anaïs Nin

    The Diary of Ana?s Nin is the published version of Ana?s Nin's own private manuscript diary, which she began at age 11 in 1914 during a trip from Europe to New York City with her mother and two brothers....
    , 1966-76
  • Thomas de Quincey
    Thomas de Quincey

    Thomas de Quincey was an England author and intellectual, best known for his Confessions of an English Opium-Eater ....
    , Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
    Confessions of an English Opium-Eater

    Confessions of an English Opium-Eater is an autobiography account written by Thomas De Quincey, about his laudanum addiction and its effect on his life....
    , 1821
  • Ronald Reagan
    Ronald Reagan

    Ronald Wilson Reagan was the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States and the 33rd Governor of California . Born in Illinois, Reagan moved to Los Angeles, California in the 1930s, where he was an actor, president of the Screen Actors Guild , and a spokesman for General Electric ....
    , An American Life
    An American Life

    An American Life is the 1990 autobiography authored by former American President Ronald Reagan. Released almost two years after President Reagan left office, the book reached number eight on The New York Times bestsellers list....
    , 1990 & The Reagan Diaries
    The Reagan Diaries

    The Reagan Diaries is an edited version of diaries written by President of the United States Ronald Reagan while in the White House. The book is edited by Douglas Brinkley, while the full, unedited diaries will be published in 2009....
    , 2007
  • Manfred von Richthofen
    Manfred von Richthofen

    Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen was a German fighter pilot known as the "Red Baron". He was the most successful flying ace of World War I, being officially credited with 80 confirmed Aerial warfare victories....
     (The Red Baron), Der rote Kampfflieger (The Red Battle Flier), 1917
  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau

    Jean Jacques Rousseau was a major philosopher, writer, and composer of the eighteenth century The Age of Enlightenment, whose political philosophy influenced the French Revolution and the development of modern political and educational thought....
    , Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Les Confessions), 1770, published 1782
  • Bertrand Russell
    Bertrand Russell

    Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, Order of Merit , Fellow of the Royal Society , was a British people philosopher, mathematical logic, mathematician, historian, advocate for social reform, and pacifism....
    , Autobiography, 1967, 1969
  • Jean-Paul Sartre
    Jean-Paul Sartre

    Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre , commonly known simply as Jean-Paul Sartre , was a French existentialism philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary criticism....
    , The Words, 1964
  • Albert Schweitzer
    Albert Schweitzer

    Albert Schweitzer was a German theology, musician, philosopher, and physician. He was born in Kaysersberg in the province of Elsass-Lothringen of the German Empire....
    , Out of My Life and Thought, 1933
  • George Bernard Shaw
    George Bernard Shaw

    George Bernard Shaw, was an Irish people playwright.Although Shaw's first profitable writing was music and literary criticism, his talent was for drama, and he wrote more than 60 plays....
    , Shaw: An Autobiography, 1898-1950; the Playwright Years
  • Alan Sillitoe
    Alan Sillitoe

    Alan Sillitoe is an English writer, one of the "Angry Young Men" of the 1950s ....
    , Life Without Armour, 1995
  • Horace Silver
    Horace Silver

    Horace Silver , born Horace Ward Martin Tavares Silva in Norwalk, Connecticut, is an American jazz pianist and composer. His father, who was known as John Tavares Silva, was from the island of Maio, Cape Verde in Cape Verde....
    , Let's Get to the Nitty Gritty: The Autobiography of Horace Silver, 2007
  • Isaac Bashevis Singer
    Isaac Bashevis Singer

    Isaac Bashevis Singer was a Nobel Prize in literature-winning Poland-born United States author and one of the leading figures in the Yiddish literature movement....
    , Love and Exile: An Autobiographical Trilogy , 1984, In My Father's Court, 1966, etc
  • Lincoln Steffens
    Lincoln Steffens

    Joseph Lincoln Steffens was an American journalist and one of the most famous practitioners of the journalistic style called muckraking. He is also known for his 1921 statement, upon his return from the Soviet Union: "I have been over into the future, and it works."...
    , Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens, 1931
  • Gertrude Stein
    Gertrude Stein

    Gertrude Stein was an American writer who spent most of her life in France, and who became a catalyst in the development of modern art and Modernist literature....
    , The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
    The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas

    The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas is a 1933 book by Gertrude Stein, written by Stein in the style of an autobiography by her lover, Alice B....
    , 1933
  • Nikola Tesla
    Nikola Tesla

    Nikola Tesla was an inventor and a mechanical engineer and electrical engineer. Tesla was born in the village of Smiljan near the town of Gospic, in Croatia ....
    , My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla, 1919
  • Leo Tolstoy
    Leo Tolstoy

    Leo Tolstoy, or Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy Tolstoy's further talents as essayist, dramatist and Education reform made him the most influential member of the aristocracy Tolstoy....
    ,     Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth, 1852 – 1856
  • Mark Twain
    Mark Twain

    Samuel Langhorne Clemens , better known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an United Statesmerican author and humorist. Twain is most noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which has since been called the Great American Novel, and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer....
    ,     Mark Twain's Autobiography
    Mark Twain's Autobiography

    Published by Harper & Brothers Publishers, Mark Twain?s Autobiography is a two-volume set published over ten years after Twain's death in order to protect the "guilty"....
    , 1917
  • Giambattista Vico
    Giambattista Vico

    'Giovanni Battista Vico' or 'Vigo' was an Italy philosopher, rhetorician, historian, and jurist.A critic of modern rationalism and apologist of classical antiquity, Vico's magnum opus is titled "Principles/Origins of [re]New[ed] Science about the Common Nature of Nations" ....
    ,     The Autobiography of Giambattista Vico, 1735-1741
  • Voltaire
    Voltaire

    Fran?ois-Marie Arouet , better known by the pen name Voltaire, was a French Age of Enlightenment writer, essayist, and philosophy known for his wit, philosophical sport, and defense of civil liberty, including freedom of religion and free trade....
    , Mémoires pour servir à la vie de M. de Voltaire, écrits par lui-même, 1759, published 1784
  • Booker T. Washington
    Booker T. Washington

    Booker Taliaferro Washington was an American educator, orator, author and the dominant leader of the African-American community nationwide from the 1890s to his death....
    ,     Up From Slavery
    Up From Slavery

    Up from Slavery is the 1901 autobiography of Booker T. Washington detailing his slow and steady rise from a slave child during the American Civil War, to the difficulties and obstacles he overcame to get an education at the new Hampton University, to his work establishing vocational schools?most notably the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama...
    , 1901
Julie Walters Thats Another Story 2008

  • H. G. Wells
    H. G. Wells

    Herbert George Wells , known by his pen name H. G. Wells, was an England author, best known for his work in the science fiction genre. Wells and Jules Verne are each sometimes referred to as "The Father of Science Fiction"....
    ,     An Experiment in Autobiography, 1934
  • Frank Lloyd Wright
    Frank Lloyd Wright

    Frank Lloyd Wright was an United States architect, interior designer, writer and educator, who designed more than 1,000 projects, which resulted in more than 500 completed works....
    ,     Autobiography, 1943
  • Richard Wright
    Richard Wright (author)

    Richard Nathaniel Wright was an African-American author of powerful, sometimes controversialnovels, short stories and non-fiction.Much of his literature concerned racial themes....
    ,     Black Boy
    Black Boy

    Black Boy is an autobiography by Richard Wright . Depicting Wright's life in great detail, the book tells the story of his troubled youth and race relations in the South....
    , 1945
  • Malcolm X
    Malcolm X

    Malcolm X , also known as Hajji Malik El-Shabazz , was an African American Muslim minister, public speaker, and human rights activist. To his admirers, he was a courageous advocate for the rights of African Americans, a man who indicted white America in the harshest terms for its crimes against black Americans....
    ,     The Autobiography of Malcolm X
    The Autobiography of Malcolm X

    The Autobiography of Malcolm X was written by Alex Haley between 1964 and 1965, as told to him through conversations with Malcolm conducted shortly before Malcolm X's death , and published in 1965....
    , 1965
  • William Butler Yeats
    William Butler Yeats

    File:William Butler Yeat by George Charles Beresford.jpgWilliam Butler Yeats was an Irish people poet and dramatist and one of the foremost figures of 20th century in literature....
    ,     Autobiography, 1936
  • Paramahansa Yogananda
    Paramahansa Yogananda

    Paramahansa Yogananda , born Mukunda Lal Ghosh , was an Indian yoga and guru who introduced many westerners to the teachings of meditation and Kriya Yoga through his book, Autobiography of a Yogi....
    ,     Autobiography of a Yogi