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American Autobiography, Memoir & Biography

Adams, Henry -- The Education of Henry Adams
Addams, Jane -- Twenty Years at Hull House
Alcott, Louisa May--Her Life, Letters, and Journals
Alcott, Louisa May--Hospital Sketches
Black Hawk--Autobiography of Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak, or Black Hawk
Browne, Margaret Griffith--Autobiography of a Female Slave
Dana, Richard--Two Years Before the Mast
Douglass, Frederick--My Bondage and My Freedom
Douglass, Frederick--Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Franklin, Benjamin--The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Grant, U. S.--Personal Memoirs
Hughes, Louis--Thirty Years a Slave From Bondage to Freedom
Jefferson, Thomas--The Memoirs, Correspondence, and Miscellanies
Johnson, James Weldon--The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man.
Keller, Helen--The Story of My Life
Sanger, Margaret--The Autobiography of Margaret Sanger
Sherman, William T.--Memoirs of General William T. Sherman
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady--Eighty Years and More; Reminiscences 1815-1897
Thoreau, Henry David--Walden.
Truth, Sojourner--The Narrative of Sojourner Truth
Twain, Mark (Samuel L. Clemens)--A Tramp Abroad
Twain, Mark (Samuel L. Clemens)--Chapters From My Autobiography.
Twain, Mark (Samuel L. Clemens)--Complete Letters
Twain, Mark (Samuel L. Clemens)--Life on the Mississippi
Twain, Mark (Samuel L. Clemens)--Roughing It
Twain, Mark (Samuel L. Clemens)--The Innocents Abroad
Washington, Booker T--Up From Slavery

English & European Autobiography, Memoir & Biography in English

Boswell, James--Life of Johnson
Burney, Fanny--The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay Volume 1
Burney, Fanny--The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay Volume 2
Burney, Fanny--The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay Volume 3
Carter, Harry--The Autobiography of a Cornish Smuggler
Darwin, Charles--The Autobiography of Charles Darwin
Darwin, Charles--The Autobiography of Charles Darwin
Mill. John Stuart--Autobiography
Pepys, Samuel--Diary

African & Asian Autobiography and Biography in English

Augustine (Bishop of Hippo)--Confessions
Equiano, Olaudah--The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa
Yogananda,Paramahansa--The Autobiography of a Yogi
The Extraordinary Autobiography of an Enslaved Muslim Man Is Now Online

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