: An Autobiography — published in 2009 after his death — is a more traditional narrative of his life and work ( though it also meant to be an inspirational story of the use of rational thinking in self-help ).

The term is used in popular discourse, and scholars have traced its use in American literature ranging from the Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, to Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ( 1884 ), Willa Cather's My Ántonia, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby ( 1925 ), Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy ( 1925 ) and Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon ( 1977 ).

An " advanced computer " appears in The Austere Academy, which, while outdated by current standards, is nonetheless more advanced than the earliest computers ; this computer's exact functions are never stated, as its only use in the book is to show a picture of Count Olaf ( which both Mr. Poe and Vice Principal Nero believe will keep him away ), but in the companion book The Unauthorised Autobiography, one of the letters describes the computer as capable of an advanced act of forgery.

As Sullivan's Autobiography of an Idea testifies, the vitality and originality of Furness meant more to him than what he was taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, or later at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris.

See: Threescore: The Autobiography of Sarah N. Cleghorn, 1936. pp. 253 – 81. Cleghorn, a poet, taught at Brookwood, then Manumit from 1924 to early 1930s.

Christie is purposefully vague, as Poirot is thought to be elderly even in the early Poirot novels, and in An Autobiography she admitted that she already imagined him to be an old man in 1920.

This ought to have been a comfortable sum of money ( at the time many working-class families had " round about a pound a week " as their entire household income ) yet in his Experiment in Autobiography, Wells speaks of constantly being hungry, and indeed, photographs of him at the time show a youth very thin and malnourished.

On 2 September 2005, Fowler released a book called Fowler: My Autobiography, about his time as a footballer and the issues surrounding him.

His Autobiography ( 1856 ) made him nationally prominent.

In his Autobiography Twain describes him thus:

Benjamin Franklin describes Godfrey at length in his Autobiography, referring to him as a " Great Mathematician " who nevertheless was " not a pleasing Companion ", demanding in conversations a " universal Precision in every thing said.

Twenty years later someone gave him Autobiography of a Yogi.

The second part begins with two letters Franklin received in the early 1780s while in Paris, encouraging him to continue the Autobiography, of which both correspondents have read Part One.

It is apparent that Franklin intended to cover more ground, because an outline of the Autobiography written by him and copied by Henry ends with a reference to the Treaty of Paris, which Franklin helped negotiate, so the obvious inference is that Franklin's death prevented his proceeding further with the Autobiography.

According to Gary Wright, the song was inspired by Autobiography of a Yogi, which was given to him by George Harrison.

* Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography edited by J.

Charlotte responded by finishing and sending a second manuscript in August 1847, and six weeks later Jane Eyre: An Autobiography, was published.

* Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography ( 2002 ) by Lemony Snicket / Daniel Handler uses letters, documents, and other scripts to construct the plotline.

It is a semi-sequel to A Liar's Autobiography, with Chapman works compiled by Yoakum.

* " Wells ' Autobiography ", by John Hart, from New International, Vol. 2 No. 2, Mar 1935, pp. 75 – 76

* What a Waste It Is to Lose One's Mind: The Unauthorized Autobiography of Dan Quayle, Quayle Quarterly ( published by Rose Communications ), April 1992, ISBN 0-9629162-2-6.

However, Gilliam, writing in The Pythons Autobiography by The Pythons, said he thought it should have stayed, saying " Listen, we've alienated the Christians, let's get the Jews now ".

Unlike many of his contemporaries, he did not record in the early blues era, but his life is well documented thanks to his autobiography, I Say Me for a Parable: The Oral Autobiography of Mance Lipscomb, Texas Bluesman, narrated to Glen Alyn, which was published posthumously, and also a short 1971 documentary by Les Blank, A Well Spent Life.

* Up from Slavery: An Autobiography Published online by The Multiracial Activist

* Hope Dies Last The Autobiography of Alexander Dubcek by Alexander Dubcek ( Author ), Jiří Hochman ( Editor, Translator ), Kodansha Europe ( 1993 ), ISBN 1-56836-000-2.

An extended paperback edition, retitled ' Glenn Hughes: The Autobiography ', was published in late 2011 by Jawbone Press.

* Richard Aldington: An Autobiography in Letters ( 1992 ) edited by Norman T. Gates

* Lipogrammatic Autobiography by Douglas R. Hofstadter

He wrote a memoir, Act One: An Autobiography by Moss Hart, which was released in 1959.

Stein's writing can be placed in three categories: " hermetic " works that have gone largely unread, best illustrated by The Making of Americans: The Hersland Family ; popularized writing such as The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas ; and speech writing and more accessible autobiographical writing of later years, of which Brewsie and Willie is a good example.

During this time she wrote her first autobiography, This for Remembrance: the Autobiography of Rosemary Clooney, an Irish-American Singer, written in collaboration with Raymond Strait and published by Playboy Press in 1977.

* Autobiography of a Princess ( 1975, by James Ivory )

* Die Nigger Die: A Political Autobiography by H. Rap Brown

George Sylvester Viereck and Paul Eldridge wrote a trilogy of novels My First Two Thousand Years, an Autobiography of the Wandering Jew, ( 1928 ), in which Isaac Laquedem is a Roman soldier who, after being told by Jesus that he will " tarry until I return ," goes on to influence many of the great events of history ; he frequently encounters Solome ( described as ' The Wandering Jewess '), and travels with a companion, to whom he has passed on his immortality via a blood transfusion ( another attempt to do this for a woman he loved ended in her death ).

The Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography has been presented since 1917 for a distinguished biography or autobiography by an American author.

* 1947: The Autobiography of William Allen White by William Allen White

* 1992: Fortunate Son: The Autobiography of Lewis B. Puller Jr. by Lewis B. Puller

* The Autobiography of Abbie Hoffman Intro by Norman Mailer, Afterword by HZ ( 2000 ) ISBN 1-56858-197-1.

A Life of Contrasts: The Autobiography of Diana Mitford Mosley by Diana Mitford Mosley

Autobiography of strongwoman Joan Rhodes who was an intimate friend of Crisp's for over half a century.

The first edition of the Autobiography was published by Twain's personal friend and literary executor Albert Bigelow Paine, and consisted of twenty-two fragments presented in the order Twain composed them, including the first four months ( January-April 1906 ) of the Autobiographical Dictations.

Blanch's love of Russia, instilled in her as a child by a friend of her parents whom she simply called The Traveller, is recounted in Journey into the Mind's Eye, Fragments of an Autobiography which is part travel book, part love story.