In addition to Moral and Political Philosophy and the Evidences Charles Darwin read Natural Theology during his student years and later stated in his autobiography that he was initially convinced by the argument.

The scientist Joseph Le Conte stated in his autobiography that Cheves, long before Charles Darwin published his Origin of Species, had articulated to him a theory of evolution almost identical to Darwin's.

It is sometimes suggested that Charles Darwin found himself on the receiving end of a bombardier beetle's defences on a collecting trip in 1828, but this is based on a misreading of his autobiography ;

Darwin recalled in his autobiography " No poet ever felt more delight at seeing his first poem published than I did at seeing in Stephen's Illustrations of British Insects the magic words, ' captured by C. Darwin, Esq.

In his later private autobiography, Darwin wrote of the period from October 1836 to January 1839:

In his autobiography written in 1876 Darwin reviewed questions about Christianity in relation to other religions and how " the more we know of the fixed laws of nature the more incredible do miracles become ".

Darwin later commented in his autobiography that this was the only response to the papers, summarising Haughton ’ s verdict as ‘ all that new in there was false, and what was true was old ’.

The Autobiography of Charles Darwin is the autobiography of the British naturalist Charles Darwin which was published in 1887, five years after his death.

In his autobiography of 1876, Darwin wrote of his illness, emphasising that it was brought on by " excitement ":

As well as writing out his own autobiography for his family, he wrote an introduction to a biography of his grandfather Erasmus Darwin.

Charles Darwin, from his autobiography.

Even his old literary home, Punch, where the When We Were Very Young verses had first appeared, was ultimately to reject him, as Christopher Milne details in his autobiography The Enchanted Places, although Methuen continued to publish whatever Milne wrote, including the long poem ' The Norman Church ' and an assembly of articles entitled Year In, Year Out ( which Milne likened to a benefit night for the author ).

He wrote a number of books and papers two of which are of immense importance namely ( 1 ). India in Transition, about the prepartition politics of India and ( 2 ). World Enough & Time-The Memoirs of Sir Sultan Mohammed Shah, Aga Khan III, his autobiography.

In addition to Triumphant Democracy ( 1886 ), and The Gospel of Wealth ( 1889 ), he also wrote An American Four-in-hand in Britain ( 1883 ), Round the World ( 1884 ), The Empire of Business ( 1902 ), The Secret of Business is the Management of Men ( 1903 ), James Watt ( 1905 ) in the Famous Scots Series, Problems of Today ( 1907 ), and his posthumously published autobiography Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie ( 1920 ).

In the 15th century, Leonor López de Córdoba, a Spanish noblewoman, wrote her Memorias, which may be the first autobiography in Castillian.

One early example is that of Leonor López de Córdoba ( 1362 – 1420 ) who wrote what is supposed to be the first autobiography in Spanish.

In 1997 Hill published her autobiography, Speaking Truth to Power, in which she chronicled her role in the Clarence Thomas confirmation controversy and wrote that creating a better society had been a motivating force in her life.

In 1986, Morita wrote an autobiography titled Made in Japan.

Lerner wrote in his autobiography ( as quoted by The New York Times ): " All I can say is that if I had no flair for marriage, I also had no flair for bachelorhood.

Watterson wrote a brief, tongue-in-cheek autobiography in the late 1980s.

Dr. Chaim Weizmann wrote in his autobiography Trial and Error that Palestine had been excluded from the areas that should have been Arab and independent.

During the course of the second Labour government, Attlee had become increasingly disillusioned by Ramsay MacDonald, whom he came to regard as vain and incompetent, and later wrote scathingly of him in his autobiography.

In 2000, Charles wrote his first autobiography about his experiences growing up in Liverpool, titled No Irish, No Niggers.

Finally, he wrote an eight-volume autobiography that Suetonius describes as lacking in taste.

In her autobiography, Retrospection and Introspection, she wrote:

Caligula's sister, Agrippina the Younger, wrote an autobiography that certainly included a detailed explanation of Caligula's reign, but it too is lost.

Following a turbulent childhood which was marked by drug and alcohol abuse and two stints in rehab, Barrymore wrote the 1990 autobiography, Little Girl Lost.

Benjamin Franklin wrote in his autobiography, " Some books against Deism fell into my hands ; they were said to be the substance of sermons preached at Boyle's lectures.

He wrote in his autobiography that he received more fan mail about his role as Mr. Freeze than about all of his other roles combined.

Douglass wrote several autobiographies, eloquently describing his experiences in slavery in his 1845 autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, which became influential in its support for abolition.

Despite his lack of formal education, he wrote many books, including his autobiography, Groucho and Me ( 1959 ) and Memoirs of a Mangy Lover ( 1963 ).

" There was always music in our house ," Gaynor wrote in her autobiography, I Will Survive.

" All through my young life I wanted to sing, although nobody in my family knew it ," Gaynor wrote in her autobiography.

He also wrote an autobiography – not, apparently, a work of great length or revelation, but designed to scotch various rumours or explain his various actions.

He wrote in his autobiography:

Although Trotsky stated in his autobiography My Life that he was never perfectly fluent in any language but Russian and Ukrainian, Raymond Molinier wrote that Trotsky spoke fluent French.

Many of his new and old friends ( Davis, in his autobiography, mentions Clarke ) tried to persuade him to stay in France, but Davis decided to return to New York.

Radner wrote in her autobiography It's Always Something toward the end of her life, " I coped with stress by having every possible eating disorder from the time I was nine years old.

The autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini was started in the year 1558 at the age of 58 and ended abruptly just before his last trip to Pisa around the year 1563 when Cellini was approximately 63 years old.

The chronological scope of a memoir is determined by the work's context and is therefore more focused and flexible than the traditional arc of birth to old age as found in an autobiography.

Oamaru: The clock tower on the old Post Office, vividly described in Frame's debut novel, Owls Do Cry, as well as in her third volume of autobiography, The Envoy from Mirror City

In his autobiography, Confessions of a Happy Man ( 1960 ), he revealed that he had no contact with his natural parents or his sister or two brothers since he was abandoned when only a few weeks old.

The Colgate hour was a virtual video autobiography, with Cantor recounting his career, singing his familiar hits, and re-creating his singing-waiter days with his old pal Jimmy Durante.

He signed a book deal with Voyageur, and began writing his autobiography. Also in Fall of 2009, Chrome got together with old friend Sylvain Sylvain to record an EP on the suggestion of SmogVeil Records head Frank Mauceri.

Maud Gonne MacBride published her autobiography in 1938, titled A Servant of the Queen, a reference to a both a vision she had of the Irish queen of old, Cathleen ( or Caitlin ) Ní Houlihan and an ironic title considering Gonne's Irish Nationalism and rejection of the British Queen.

Socialist Labour Party activist Tom Bell, then a 24-year old in charge of the party's literature department remembered in his autobiography about the 1905 decision to endorse the IWW:

In her 1991 autobiography, Blood Memory, Graham herself lists her final performance as her 1970 appearance in " Cortege of Eagles " when she was 76 years old.

The plane struck the side of the Pentagon where his father had worked, and Everett remarks in his autobiography that he wonders whether the plane hit his father's old office.

A short controversy followed as Taylor wrote in his 2008 autobiography that there was no " blunt message " and that in addition to the problems of writing and recording Reportage, old conflicts between himself and other bandmembers had resurfaced.

She is the author of several books including an autobiography, Esther, a book on growing old disgracefully, If Not Now When, a novel A Secret Life and " Running Out of Tears ",( published by the Robson Press ) interviews with young adults who had rung ChildLine when they were children, to celebrate ChildLine's 25 years, royalties to ChildLine.

Penned when she was over eighty years old, Sarraute's autobiography is hardly a straightforward memoir, as she challenges her own capacity to accurately recall her past throughout the work.

In 1970, in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, Irving met with an author of children's books and old friend, Richard Suskind, and spontaneously created the scheme to write Hughes's " autobiography ".

Stump plans to complete Cobb's whitewashed version while the old man is still alive, guaranteeing his payment for the autobiography project, letting Cobb die happy, and then issue the hard-hitting followup after Cobb dies.

Throughout the five chapters of The Woman Warrior, Kingston blends autobiography with old Chinese folktales.

What Lucas wrote about Housman ’ s Name and Nature of Poetry in 1933 ( though he contested some of its ideas ) sums up what he himself aspired to as a literary critic: "… the kind of critical writing that best justifies itself before the brevity of life ; that itself adds new data to our experience as well as arguing about the old ; that happily combines, in a word, philosophy with autobiography, psychology with a touch of poetry – of the ‘ poetic ’ imagination.

John Wain in his own autobiography " Sprightly Running ", recalled of the neurotic poet that he emerged from Oxford with a backward looking, almost Johnsonian determination to dig in and cherish the old values while the tide of modernism swept over him.

Randolph was known for embroidering the truth when it came to his own autobiography ( he claimed that his mother Flora Randolph, an African American woman from Virginia, who died when he was eleven years old, had been a foreign princess ) but he was actually telling the truth — or something very close to it, according to his biographer John Patrick Deveney — when he said that he had met the Maharajah in Europe and had learned from him the proper way to use both polished gemstones and Indian " bhattah mirrors " in divination.

It is difficult to say how factual an autobiography The Quilt is intended to be, as Paulsen is supposed to have been six years old in this story and yet he made references to events found in Eastern Sun, which is supposed to have been set later.

Marco is also a ghostwriter, writing the autobiography of Alfred, an old radical homosexual of Hungarian Jewish origin.