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✩ Nominated for the NAACP Image Award for an outstanding biography or autobiography The historian and best-selling author Keisha N. Blain examines the life and work of the Black activist Fannie Lou Hamer, positioning her as a key political thinker alongside leaders such as Martin Luther King ...
An “event” autobiography is less common, but there are some famous examples.Into Thin Airby Jon Krakauer is a first-person account of a Mount Everest climb that went terribly wrong, costing the lives of eight people. Format Beautiful Professional Books Easy to use, and and full of amazing...
fictive author of an autobiography by Gertrude Stein. [Am. Lit.: SteinThe Autobiography of Alice B. Toklasin Benét, 66] Venerable Bede (c. 673–735) Benedictine monk; wrote memorable biographies of English saints. [Br. Hist.:NCE, 257] ...
A Short Autobiography by Steve Gregg I don’t know whether it seems egotistical for a man to write autobiographically, but I have always thought that the unusual providence of God in my life makes a rather interesting, and, I hope, edifying tale worth telling. There is truly no part of...
The Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography has been presented since 1917 for a distinguished biography or autobiography by an American author. 1917: Julia Ward Howe by Laura E. Richards and Maud Howe Elliott, assisted by Florence Howe Hall. 1918: Benjamin Franklin, Self-Revealed by William...
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Autobiography vs. Biography Biography The true story of one’s life written by someone else.
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This is the autobiography of the comedic legend, Lenny Bruce. The first half (or so) of the book discusses Bruce’s life before standup comedy. This includes time as a sailor (US Navy) during the Second World War, as a sailor in the merchant marine, as a farmhand, and brief stint...