Classic American Autobiographies
- Paperback
496 pages
- Release Date
28 January 2015
Summary
A diverse collection of autobiographies from important Americans in history, now with a new afterword.
The true diversity of the American experience comes to life in this superlative collection of autobiographies—including those of Benjamin Franklin, Frederick Douglass, Mark Twain, and more.
- A True History of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson (1682), perhaps the first American bestseller, recounts this thirty-nine-year-old woman’s har…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780451471444 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 045147144X |
| Author: | William L. Andrews, Paul John Eakin |
| Publisher: | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Imprint: | Signet |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 496 |
| Release Date: | 28 January 2015 |
| Weight: | 283g |
| Dimensions: | 32mm x 107mm x 171mm |
William L. Andrews
William L. Andrews is the Joyce and Elizabeth Hall Professor of American Literature at the University of Kansas. A prizewinning scholar of African-American literature, Andrews is the author of To Tell a Free Story: The First Century of Afro-American Autobiography, 1760-1865. He is the editor of Collected Stories of Charles W. Chesnutt, Three Classic Stories of Charles W. Chesnutt, Three Classic African-American Novels, and The African-American Novel in the Age of Reflection: Three Classics.
Paul John Eakin, Ruth N. Halls Professor Emeritus of English at Indiana University, is the author of several books on autobiography, including Fictions in Autobiography: Studies in the Art of Self-Invention, Touching the World: Reference in Autobiography, How Our Lives Become Stories: Making Selves, and Living Autobiographically: How We Create Identity in Narrative. He is also the editor of American Autobiography: Retrospect and Prospect.
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