List of autobiographies
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The following is a list of notable autobiographies:
By date
- Augustine of Hippo, Confessions, 397
- Peter Abelard, Historia Calamitatum, 12th century
- Benvenuto Cellini, The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini, c1570, published 1728
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Confessions (Les Confessions), 1770, published 1782
- Thomas de Quincey, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, 1821
- Giacomo Casanova, Histoire de ma vie, published posthumously in 1826.
- Fredrick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, 1845
- Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, 1861
- Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, 1869
- Ion Creangă, Memories of Boyhood, 1883
- Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, 1885
- Charles Darwin, The Autobiography of Charles Darwin 1809-1882, published posthumously in 1887.
- Joaquim Nabuco, Minha formação, 1900
- Booker T. Washington, Up From Slavery, 1901
- Helen Keller, The Story of My Life, 1903
- Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams, 1907
- Mark Twain, Mark Twain's Autobiography, posthumous, 1907
- Manfred von Richthofen (The Red Baron), The Red Fighter Pilot, 1917
- Nikola Tesla, My Inventions, c. 1919
- Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf (My Struggle), 1925
- Isadora Duncan, "My Life". 1927
- Mahatma Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, 1927 and 1929
- Black Elk and John J. Neihardt, Black Elk Speaks, 1931
- Gertrude Stein, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, 1933
- Jawaharlal Nehru, An Autobiography, 1936
- Robert Wagner, Pieces of My Heart, 2008
- Richard Wright, Black Boy, 1945
- Nirad C. Chaudhuri, The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian , 1951
- Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, 1965
- Vladimir Nabokov, Speak, Memory, 1966
- Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1966-76
- Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire, 1968
- Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, 1969
- Roald Dahl, Boy & Going Solo, 1986
- Annie Dillard, An American Childhood, 1987
- Ronald Reagan, An American Life, 1990
- Barack Obama, Dreams from My Father, 1996
- A P J Abdul Kalam, Wings of Fire, 1999
- Craig Thompson, Blankets, 2003
- Chelsea Handler, My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands, 2005
- Fidel Castro, My Life - A Spoken Autobiography, 2006
- Ronald Reagan, The Reagan Diaries, 2007
- Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, 2007
- Eminem, The Way I Am, 2008
- Chelsea Handler, Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea, 2008
By name
- Peter Abelard, Historia Calamitatum, 12th century
- Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams, 1907
- Nadezhda Mandelstam, Hope Against Hope, 1970
- Maya Angelou, I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, 1969
- Augustine of Hippo, Confessions, 397
- Black Elk and John J. Neihardt, Black Elk Speaks, 1931
- Giacomo Casanova, Histoire de ma vie, published posthumously in 1826.
- Fidel Castro, My Life - A Spoken Autobiography, 2006
- Benvenuto Cellini, The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini, c1570, published 1728
- Nirad C. Chaudhuri,The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian 1951
- Roald Dahl, Boy & Going Solo, 1986
- Charles Darwin, The Autobiography of Charles Darwin 1809-1882, published posthumously in 1887.
- Fredrick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, 1845
- Alexandre Dumas, père, Mes Mémoires, 1852 - 1856
- Isadora Duncan, My Life, 1927
- Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, 1869
- Mahatma Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, 1927 and 1929
- Al-Ghazali, The Deliverer from Error, 12th century
- Dizzy Gillespie, Dizzy: To be or not to bop : the autobiography of Dizzy Gillespie with Al Fraser
- Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, 1885
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, The Autobiography Of Goethe: Truth And Poetry, From My Own Life, 1848
- Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, 1925
- Zora Neale Hurston, Dust Tracks on the Road, 1942
- Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, 1861
- Thomas Jefferson, Autobiography
- Helen Keller, The Story of My Life, 1903
- Jamaica Kincaid, A Small Place, 1988
- Alphonse de Lamartine, Les Confidences, 1849, Nouvelles confidences, 1851, Mémoires Politiques, 1963, etc
- C. S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life
- Claude McKay, A Long Way From Home, 1937
- John Stuart Mill, Autobiography, 1873
- Yehudi Menuhin, Unfinished Journey: Twenty Years Later, 1999
- Vladimir Nabokov, Speak, Memory, 1966
- Joaquim Nabuco, Minha formação, 1900
- Jawaharlal Nehru, Autobiography, 1936
- Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1966-76
- Thomas de Quincey, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, 1821
- Ronald Reagan, An American Life, 1990 & The Reagan Diaries, 2007
- Manfred von Richthofen (The Red Baron), Der rote Kampfflieger (The Red Battle Flier), 1917
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Les Confessions), 1770, published 1782
- Bertrand Russell, Autobiography, 1967, 1969
- Jean-Paul Sartre, The Words, 1964
- Albert Schweitzer, Out of My Life and Thought, 1933
- George Bernard Shaw, Shaw: An Autobiography, 1898-1950; the Playwright Years
- Alan Sillitoe, Life Without Armour, 1995
- Horace Silver, Let's Get to the Nitty Gritty: The Autobiography of Horace Silver, 2007
- Isaac Bashevis Singer, Love and Exile: An Autobiographical Trilogy , 1984, In My Father's Court, 1966, etc
- Lincoln Steffens, Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens, 1931
- Gertrude Stein, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, 1933
- Nikola Tesla, My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla, 1919
- Leo Tolstoy, Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth, 1852 – 1856
- Mark Twain, Mark Twain's Autobiography, 1917
- Giambattista Vico, The Autobiography of Giambattista Vico, 1735-1741
- Voltaire, Mémoires pour servir à la vie de M. de Voltaire, écrits par lui-même, 1759, published 1784
- Booker T. Washington, Up From Slavery, 1901
- Julie Walters, Thats Another Story 2008
- H. G. Wells, An Experiment in Autobiography, 1934
- Frank Lloyd Wright, Autobiography, 1943
- Richard Wright, Black Boy, 1945
- Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, 1965
- William Butler Yeats, Autobiography, 1936
- Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi
- Miley Cyrus, "Miles To Go", 2008