Autobiography

Scott Fitzgerald who she greatly influenced. Gertrude Stein was also able to publish The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas in 1933 which was Gertrude Stein’s only commercial success and written in the perspective of her partner Alice B. Toklas. Stein did a lecture tour of the United States in 1934 which was very successful, but she later went back…

In 1855, he published his second autobiography was called My Bondage and My Freedom. This book explored in greater detail his transition from bondage to freedom. This second autobiography is an extension of his first autobiography. My Bondage and My Freedom explores his story of a traveling lecturer. His last autobiography was named Life and Times of Frederick Douglass. This one gave detail about his life as a slave, his escape, and his connections to the anti-slavery movement, as well as many…

poet, a civil rights activist, memoirist, playwright, dancer, stage and screen producer, director, performer, and singer. She published autobiographies, essays, and several poems. Maya Angelou earned tons of awards and more than 50 honorary degrees. The first of her seven autobiographies were I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings was written in 1969. This autobiography tells her life up to the age 17 and brought her international recognition and acclaim. Also, it was nominated for the National Book…

In Curtis Perry’s article “Piranesi’s Prison: Thomas De Quincey and the Failure of Autobiography, Perry argues that in order to get a full version of De Quincey’s autobiography we must look outward to his other works; since, Perry claims that De Quincey’s works (perhaps due to his opium addiction) are much like the confusing muddle of the Piranesi paintings that De Quincey critically admires. Perry breaks up his argument by first looking at Confessions of an English Opium Eater, then he moves…

or write in 3rd person and address people by their names or use pronouns like “he” or “they”? Although many people decide to write in third person point of view, both the stories The Georges and the Jewels by Jane Smiley, and Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse by Anna Sewell develop their characters through first person point of view. The Georges and the Jewels is a story in perspective of a little girl named Abby, who has had both the good and the bad with horses. She has been thrown…

late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries,”(Lowe 1) via the archive, autobiographies, literature, and philosophy. Lowe argues that slavery, colonialism, and trades of bodies and goods from China and India allow for liberalism to flourish in Europe. By reading “across” archives and applying interdisciplinary (literary, historical, philosophical, and historiographical) methods, brings to light relationships…

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin When thinking about Benjamin Franklin the first thing that comes to mind is a man flying a kite with the key at the end of it, trying to discover electricity. He was best known as a founding father, inventor, scientist, politician, author, and a printer in his lifetime. He became so well rounded due to reading books from philosophers and reading about humanism. Understanding his accomplishments and how he lived his life are what were captured in his…

The title of the autobiography is Jack: Straight from the Gut by Jack Welch. The genre of the book is focused on the business and entrepreneurial standpoints in his own life. He relates to how he began with little to no ambitions to become a businessman and how his own life experiences shaped him to become one of the most successful businessmen in the United States. This stands out to me because of my interest in business and entrepreneurship. Jack and I also share many similarities such as both…

In the autobiography a dog named Max was trained to “monitor his mistress’s blood level while she was awake or asleep (Grandin, pg 154, pp 5).” Max is a very caring dog who trained himself to do this and in the article it mentions that no one knows how he was able…

his life during slavery and after the Civil War. In his autobiography, he begins by talking about him, where he was born, where he and his mother and siblings lived, and the things he saw during that time. Washington was born in Franklin County, Virginia, as he described it as “ the most miserable, desolate, and discouraging surroundings”. He said that he is not quite sure when he was born, but it was around the 1858-1859. In his autobiography, Washington detailed in its descriptions of the…