Great Biographies and Autobiographies
Submitted by JohnnyW on Thu, 03/08/2001 - 03:09
Tags:
- Seutonius/Twelve Caesars
- St. Augustine/Confessions
- James Boswell/Life of Samuel Johnson
- Thomas DeQuincy/Confessions of an English Opium Eater
- Olaudah Equiano/Interesting Narrative
- Benjamin Franklin/The Autobiography
- Mark Twain/Life on the Mississippi
- Booker T. Washington/Up from Slavery
- W.B. Yeats/Autobiographies
- Edgar Snow/Red Star over China (Mao Tse-tung)
- Fawn Brodie/No Man Knows My Name: The Life of Joseph Smith
- Richard Wright/Black Boy
- Malcolm X/Autobiography
Author Comments:
Many more potential entries, just a start...
Great list! There are still several on here I need to read.
I would add Plutarch's Lifes to this list, although it is a collection of short biographies as opposed to a longer one about one person.
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs