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Autobiographies

Here are entered collections of autobiographies. When this heading is subdivided by place, a second heading is assigned for the name of the place with the subdivision Biography.

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• Biography

• Diaries

• Autobiographies -- United States
• Autobiography

• Autobiography: A Collection of the Most Instructive and Amusing Lives Ever Published, Written by the Parties Themselves (33 volumes; London: Whittaker, Treacher, and Arnot, 1830-1832) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Autobiographies by Americans of Color, 1995-2000: An Annotated Bibliography (c2003), by Deborah Stuhr Iwabuchi and Rebecca Stuhr (PDF with commentary here at Penn)
• Autobiographies by Americans of Color, 1980-1994: An Annotated Bibliography (Troy, NY: Whitston Pub. Co., 1997), by Rebecca Stuhr (PDF with commentary here at Penn)

• Declarations of Independency in Eighteenth-Century American Autobiography (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, c1998), by Susan Clair Imbarrato (PDF at Tennessee)
• Strindberg and Autobiography (London: Ubiquity Press and Norvik Press, 2013), by Michael Robinson (PDF at Ubiquity Press)
• Interpreting the Self: Autobiography in the Arabic Literary Tradition (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001), ed. by Dwight Fletcher Reynolds (HTML at UC Press)
• Confessions of a Prosaic Dreamer: Charles Lamb's Art of Autobiography (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1984), by Gerald Monsman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rousseau's Occasional Autobiographies (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1992), by Susan K. Jackson (PDF at Ohio State)
• Fractured Borders: Reading Women's Cancer Literature (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2005), by Mary K. DeShazer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Italian Signs, American Streets: The Evolution of Italian American Narrative (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1996), by Fred L. Gardaphé (page images at HathiTrust)
• George Moore and the Autogenous Self: The Autobiography and Fiction (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, c1994), by Elizabeth Grubgeld (Epub with commentary at Syracuse)

• Designs of Blackness: Mappings in the Literature and Culture of Afro-America (25th anniversary edition; New York et al.: P. Lang, 2020), by A. Robert Lee
  • PDF and Epub with commentary at peterlang.com
  • PDF with commentary at OAPEN

• Chinese Autobiographical Writing: An Anthology of Personal Accounts (Seattle: University of Washington Press, c2023), ed. by Patricia Buckley Ebrey, Cong Zhang, and Ping Yao (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Faithful Transgressions in the American West: Six Twentieth-Century Mormon Women's Autobiographical Acts (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2004), by Laura L. Bush (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

• Auto/Biography (British Sociological Association journal; volumes online cover 2004-2006) (partial serial archives)

• Autobiographical Voices: Race, Gender, Self-Portraiture (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1989), by Françoise Lionnet (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• Faithful Transgressions in the American West: Six Twentieth-Century Mormon Women's Autobiographical Acts (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2004), by Laura L. Bush (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
• The Mary Carleton Narratives, 1663-1673: A Missing Chapter in the History of the English Novel (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1914), ed. by Ernest Bernbaum (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Indian Captivities, or, Life in the Wigwam: Being True Narratives of Captives Who Have Been Carried Away by the Indians, From the Frontier Settlements of The United States, From the Earliest Period to the Present Time (Auburn, NY: Derby and Miller; Buffalo: Derby, Orton and Mulligan, 1853), ed. by Samuel G. Drake (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Life among the Indians: or, The Captivity of the Oatman Girls Among the Apache & Mohave Indians (San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1935), by R. B. Stratton, contrib. by Lindley Bynum, Lorenzo D. Oatman, and Olive Ann Oatman, illust. by Mallette Dean (page images at HathiTrust)
• Captivity of the Oatman Girls: Being an Interesting Narrative of Life Among the Apache and Mohave Indians (New York: Pub. for the author by Carlton and Porter, 1858), by R. B. Stratton, contrib. by Lorenzo D. Oatman and Olive Ann Oatman (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)

• Incidents Connected with the Life of Selim Aga, a Native of Central Africa (Aberdeen, Scotland: Published for the author, 1846), by Selim Aga (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Memoir of Pierre Toussaint, Born a Slave in St. Domingo (Boston: Crosby, Nichols, and Company, 1854), by Hannah Farnham Sawyer Lee (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• The Life of Rev. Robert Anderson (Macon, GA: Printed for the author, 1892), by Robert Anderson (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Neither Fugitive Nor Free: Atlantic Slavery, Freedom Suits, and the Legal Culture of Travel (New York and London: NYU Press, c2009), by Edlie L. Wong (PDF files with commentary at JSTOR)

• Autobiography of Omar ibn Said, Slave in North Carolina, 1831 (extracted from the American Historical Review; Washington: American Historical Association, 1925), by Omar ibn Said, ed. by J. Franklin Jameson (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)

• Before the War, and After the Union: An Autobiography (Boston: Gold Mind, c1929), by Sam Aleckson (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Life and Narrative of William J. Anderson, Twenty-Four Years a Slave (Chicago: Daily Tribune Book and Job Printing Office, 1857), by William J. Anderson (HTML and TEI at UNC)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Lost Diaries (London: Duckworth and Co., 1913), by Maurice Baring (Gutenberg text)
• Passing By (London: M. Secker, 1921), by Maurice Baring (Gutenberg text)

• A Tumblr Book: Platform and Cultures (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2020), ed. by Allison McCracken, Alexander Cho, Louisa Ellen Stein, and Indira Neill Hoch (multiple formats at fulcrum.org)

• Facing It: AIDS Diaries and the Death of the Author (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1998), by Ross Chambers (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

• Adams Papers Digital Edition, by John Adams and Abigail Adams (HTML at masshist.org)

• The Queenstown Patrol, 1917: The Diary of Commander Joseph Knefler Taussig, U.S. Navy (Newport, RI: Naval War College Press, 1996), by Joseph K. Taussig, ed. by William N. Still (PDF at ibiblio.org)

• On Board the USS Mason: The World War II Diary of James A. Dunn (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1996), by James A. Dunn, ed. by Mansel G. Blackford, contrib. by John S. Butler (PDF at Ohio State)

• The Journal of Charlotte L. Forten (New York: Dryden Press, c1953), by Charlotte L. Forten, ed. by Ray Allen Billington (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Journal of Charlotte L. Forten (New York: Dryden Press, c1953), by Charlotte L. Forten, ed. by Ray Allen Billington (page images at HathiTrust)

• Marine Flyer in France: The Diary of Captain Alfred A. Cunningham, November 1917 - January 1918, by Alfred A. Cunningham, ed. by Graham A. Cosmas (illustrated HTML at BYU)

• Marine Flyer in France: The Diary of Captain Alfred A. Cunningham, November 1917 - January 1918, by Alfred A. Cunningham, ed. by Graham A. Cosmas (illustrated HTML at BYU)

• The Life and Journal of the Rev. Mr. Henry Alline (Boston: Gilbert & Dean, 1806), by Henry Alline (multiple formats at archive.org)

• From a New England Woman's Diary in Dixie in 1865, by Mary Ames (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel, by Henri Frédéric Amiel, ed. by Mrs. Humphry Ward (Gutenberg text)

• The War-Time Journal of a Georgia Girl, 1864-1865 (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1908), by Eliza Frances Andrews
  • illustrated HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Camping with the Sioux: Fieldwork Diary of Alice Cunningham Fletcher, by Alice C. Fletcher (illustrated HTML at Smithsonian)

• Anni: Letters and Writings of Annemarie Wächter (Rifton, NY: Plough Publishing House, c2011), by Annemarie Arnold, ed. by Marianne Wright and Erna Albertz (PDF at plough.com)

• American Airpower Comes of Age: General Henry H. "Hap" Arnold's World War II Diaries (2 volumes; Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 2002), by Henry Harley Arnold, ed. by John W. Huston
  • Volume 1: PDF with commentary at Air University Press
  • Volume 2: PDF with commentary at Air University Press

• Records of Journeys to Venice and the Low Countries, by Albrecht Dürer, trans. by Rudolf Tombo (Gutenberg text)

• An Extract From the Journal of Francis Asbury, Bishop of the Methodist-Episcopal Church in America, from August 7, 1771, to December 29, 1778 (only 1 volume published; Philadelphia: Printed by J. Crukshank for J. Dickins, 1792), by Francis Asbury
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Journal of a Tour to North Carolina (1787 journal published in 1922), by William Attmore, ed. by Lida Tunstall Rodman (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• The Business of Reflection: Hawthorne in His Notebooks (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2009), by Nathaniel Hawthorne, ed. by Robert Milder and Randall Fuller
  • PDF at Ohio State
  • PDF files at Project MUSE

• The Journey is Everything: A Journal of the Seventies (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1983), by Helen Bevington (page images at HathiTrust)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.