Name of author |
Name of book |
Year
|
Babur |
Baburnama |
In the month of Ramadan of the year 899
|
Marcus Aurelius |
The Meditations |
c. 175
|
Libanius |
Oration I |
374
|
Augustine of Hippo |
Confessions |
397
|
Sei Shōnagon |
The Pillow Book |
1002
|
Peter Abelard |
Historia Calamitatum |
12th century
|
Al-Ghazali |
The Deliverer from Error |
12th century
|
Leonor López de Córdoba |
Memorias (López de Córdoba) |
early 15th century
|
Margery Kempe |
The Book of Margery Kempe |
1436
|
Teresa of Ávila |
Autobiography of St. Teresa of Ávila |
1567
|
Benvenuto Cellini |
The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini |
c. 1570, published 1728
|
Girolamo Cardano |
The Book of My Life |
1576
|
Michel de Montaigne |
Of the Education of Children |
1580
|
Abraham Cowley |
Of Myself |
1668
|
Colley Cibber |
An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Written by Himself |
1740
|
Elizabeth Ashbridge |
Some Account of the Fore-Part of the Life of Elizabeth Ashbridge |
1755
|
Charlotte Charke |
A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Charlotte Charke (youngest daughter of Colley Cibber, Esq.) |
1755
|
Jonathan Edwards |
Personal Narrative |
1768
|
David Hume |
The Life of David Hume, Esq., Written By Himself |
1777
|
Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
Confessions (Les Confessions) |
1770, published 1782
|
Olaudah Equiano |
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself |
1789
|
Thomas Jefferson |
Autobiography 1743-1790 |
published posthumously in 1821
|
Benjamin Franklin |
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin |
1791
|
Edward Gibbon |
Memoirs of My Life and Writings |
1796
|
Mary Darby Robinson |
Memoirs of the Late Mrs. Robinson, Written by Herself, published in 2 volumes |
1801-1803
|
Shen Fu |
Six Records of a Floating Life |
c. 1808
|
Manuel Belgrano |
Autobiography of Manuel Belgrano |
1814
|
William Cowper |
Memoir of the Early Life of William Cowper, Esq., Written by Himself |
1816
|
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
Italian Journey |
1817
|
Thomas de Quincey |
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater |
1821
|
Harriette Wilson |
Memoirs by Harriette Wilson |
1825
|
Giacomo Casanova |
Histoire de ma vie |
published posthumously in 1826
|
Cornelio Saavedra |
Memoria autógrafa |
1829
|
James Hogg |
Memoir of the Author's Life, published in Altrive Tales |
1832
|
Stendhal |
Memoirs of an Egotist |
1832, published posthumously in 1892
|
Charles Dickens |
Autobiographical Fragment |
1847
|
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
The Autobiography Of Goethe: Truth And Poetry, From My Own Life |
1848
|
P. T. Barnum |
The Life of P.T. Barnum, Written by Himself |
1855
|
Frederick Douglass |
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave |
1845
|
Frederick Douglass |
My Bondage and My Freedom |
1855
|
Frederick Douglass |
Life and Times of Frederick Douglass |
1881 (expanded and revised, 1892)
|
George Sand |
Histoire de ma vie |
1855
|
Kit Carson |
Kit Carson's Autobiography |
1856
|
Harriet Jacobs |
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl |
1861
|
Sara Coleridge |
Memoir |
1874
|
John Stuart Mill |
Autobiography |
1874
|
Charles Darwin |
The Recollections of the Development of My Mind and Character |
1876. Published posthumously in 1887
|
Ambrose Bierce |
What I Saw of Shiloh |
1881
|
Ion Creangă |
Memories of Boyhood |
1883
|
Anthony Trollope |
An Autobiography |
1883
|
Walt Whitman |
Specimen Days |
1883
|
Leo Tolstoy |
My Confession |
1884
|
Ulysses S. Grant |
Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant |
1885
|
John Ruskin |
Praeterita: Outlines of Scenes and Thoughts Perhaps Worthy of Memory in My Past Life |
1885
|
Harriet Martineau |
Harriet Martineau's Autobiography |
1887
|
Thomas Henry Huxley |
Autobiography |
1890
|
Oscar Wilde |
De Profundis |
1897
|
Margaret Oliphant |
The Autobiography of Margaret Oliphant |
1899
|
Claude Monet |
An Interview |
1900
|
Joaquim Nabuco |
Minha formação |
1900
|
Booker T. Washington |
Up from Slavery |
1901
|
Helen Keller |
The Story of My Life |
1903
|
Geronimo |
Geronimo's Story of His Life |
1906
|
Henry Adams |
The Education of Henry Adams |
1907
|
Edmund Gosse |
Father and Son |
1907
|
Victor Hugo |
Victor Hugo's Intellectual Autobiography |
1907
|
Mark Twain |
Mark Twain's Autobiography, posthumous |
1907
|
Annie Besant |
Annie Besant: An Autobiography |
1908
|
Stephen A. Douglas |
Autobiography of Stephen A. Douglas |
1913
|
Maxim Gorky |
My Childhood |
1913
|
Henry James |
A Small Boy and Others |
1913
|
John Muir |
The Story of My Boyhood and Youth |
1913
|
Emmeline Pankhurst |
My Own Story |
1914
|
William Butler Yeats |
Reveries Over Childhood and Youth |
1916
|
Buffalo Bill Cody |
Buffalo Bill's Own Story of His Life and Deeds |
1917
|
Manfred von Richthofen |
The Red Baron (Der rote Kampfflieger) |
1917
|
Mary Augusta Ward |
A Writer's Recollections |
1918
|
Nikola Tesla |
My Inventions |
c. 1919
|
Andrew Carnegie |
Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie: with Illustrations |
1920
|
Zitkala-Sa |
Impressions of an Indian Childhood |
1921
|
Sigmund Freud |
An Autobiographical Study |
1925
|
Adolf Hitler |
Mein Kampf (My Struggle) |
1925
|
Mary Harris Jones |
Autobiography of Mother Jones |
1925
|
Isadora Duncan |
My Life |
1927
|
Benito Mussolini |
My Autobiography: With the Political and Social Doctrine of Fascism |
1928
|
Mahatma Gandhi |
The Story of My Experiments with Truth |
1927 and 1929
|
Robert Graves |
Good-Bye to All That: An Autobiography |
1929
|
Winston Churchill |
My Early Life: 1874-1904 |
1930
|
Walter Benjamin |
Unpacking My Library |
1931
|
Black Elk and John J. Neihardt |
Black Elk Speaks |
1931
|
Lincoln Steffens |
The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens |
1931
|
Vera Brittain |
Testament of Youth |
1933
|
Gertrude Stein |
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas |
1933
|
G. K. Chesterton |
The Autobiography of G.K. Chesterton |
1936
|
Jawaharlal Nehru |
An Autobiography |
1936
|
Noël Coward |
Present Indicative |
1937
|
Virginia Woolf |
Moments of Being. Collection of autobiographical essays published posthumously in 1976, including "Reminiscences," 1907; "22 Hyde Park Gate," 1920-1921; "Old Bloomsbury," 1921-1922; "Am I a Snob?", 1936; and "A Sketch of the Past," 1938. |
1938
|
F. Scott Fitzgerald |
A Short Autobiography |
1940
|
Salvador Dalí |
The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí |
1942
|
Dylan Thomas |
Holiday Memory |
1942
|
Richard Wright |
Black Boy |
1945
|
Albert Einstein |
Autobiographical Notes |
1945; published 1949
|
Anne Frank |
The Diary of a Young Girl |
1947
|
Primo Levi |
If This Is a Man |
1947
|
George Orwell |
Such, Such Were the Joys |
1947. Published posthumously in 1953
|
William Carlos Williams |
The Autobiography of William Carlos Williams |
1948
|
Nirad C. Chaudhuri |
The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian |
1951
|
Bertrand Russell |
The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell |
1951, published in 3 volumes 1951-1969
|
Gwen Raverat |
Period Piece: A Cambridge Childhood |
1952
|
Christy Brown |
My Left Foot |
1954
|
Gerald Durrell |
My Family and Other Animals |
1956
|
Billie Holiday |
Lady Sings the Blues |
1956
|
P. G. Wodehouse |
Over Seventy: An Autobiography with Digressions |
1957
|
Winston Churchill |
Memoirs of the Second World War |
1959
|
Fred Astaire |
Steps in Time |
1960
|
Simone de Beauvoir |
The Prime of Life |
1960
|
Ken Murray |
Life On a Pogo Stick |
1960
|
Harpo Marx |
Harpo Speaks |
1961
|
Dalai Lama |
My Land and My People |
1962
|
Carl Jung |
Memories, Dreams, Reflections |
1962
|
Margaret Murray |
My First Hundred Years |
1963
|
Charlie Chaplin |
My Autobiography |
1964
|
Dick Gregory |
Nigger |
1964
|
Jean-Paul Sartre |
The Words |
1964
|
Malcolm X |
The Autobiography of Malcolm X |
1965
|
P. J. Kavanagh |
The Perfect Stranger |
1966
|
Vladimir Nabokov |
Speak, Memory |
1966
|
Rosamond Lehmann |
The Swan in the Evening: Fragments of an Inner Life |
1967
|
Edward Abbey |
Desert Solitaire |
1968
|
J. R. Ackerley |
My Father and Myself |
1968
|
Quentin Crisp |
The Naked Civil Servant |
1968
|
Czesław Miłosz |
Native Realm: A Search for Self-Definition |
1968
|
Florida Scott-Maxwell |
The Measure of My Days |
1968
|
Maya Angelou |
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings |
1969
|
Brian Aherne |
A Proper Job |
1969
|
Pat Boone |
A New Song |
1970
|
Pablo Casals |
Joys and Sorrows: Reflections |
1970
|
Graham Greene |
A Sort of Life |
1971
|
Paul Bowles |
Without Stopping |
1972
|
Margaret Mead |
Blackberry Winter: My Earlier Years |
1972
|
Muhammad Ali |
The Greatest: My Own Story |
1975
|
James Baldwin |
The Devil Finds Work |
1976
|
Anaïs Nin |
The Diary of Anaïs Nin |
1966–76
|
Agatha Christie |
An Autobiography |
1977
|
Pablo Neruda |
Memoirs (Confieso que he vivido: Memorias) |
1977
|
Ralph Bellamy |
When the Smoke Hit the Fan |
1979
|
Robert Stack |
Straight Shooting |
1980
|
Manny Shinwell |
Conflict Without Malice |
1955
|
Manny Shinwell |
I've Lived Through It All |
1973
|
Manny Shinwell |
Lead With the Left: My First Ninety-Six Years |
1981
|
James Mason |
Before I Forget |
1982
|
John Mortimer |
Clinging to the Wreckage: A Part of Life |
1982
|
Michael Ondaatje |
Running in the Family |
1982
|
Dirk Bogarde |
An Orderly Man |
1983
|
Roy Hattersley |
A Yorkshire Boyhood |
1983
|
Akira Kurosawa |
Something Like an Autobiography |
1983
|
Eudora Welty |
One Writer's Beginnings |
1983
|
Ingmar Bergman |
The Magic Lantern |
1987
|
Annie Dillard |
An American Childhood |
1987
|
Mary McCarthy |
Memories of a Catholic Girlhood |
1957
|
Mary McCarthy |
How I Grew |
1987
|
Arthur Miller |
Timebends: A Life |
1987
|
Michael Jackson |
Moonwalk |
1988
|
Orson Bean |
Me and the Orgone: One Man's Sexual Revolution |
1971
|
Orson Bean |
Too Much Is Not Enough |
1988
|
Mel Blanc |
That's NOT All, Folks! |
1988
|
Drew Barrymore |
Little Girl Lost |
1989
|
Janet Frame |
To the Is-land |
1982
|
Janet Frame |
An Angel at My Table and The Envoy From Mirror City |
1984
|
Janet Frame |
An Autobiography |
1989
|
Eva Hoffman |
Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language |
1989
|
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar |
Giant Steps Kareem |
1990
|
Anthony Burgess |
Little Wilson and Big God, Being the First Part of the Confessions of Anthony Burgess |
1986
|
Anthony Burgess |
You've Had Your Time, Being the Second Part of the Confessions of Anthony Burgess |
1990
|
Ronald Reagan |
An American Life |
1990
|
Ronald Reagan |
The Reagan Diaries |
published posthumously in 2007
|
William Styron |
Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness |
1990
|
Sonny Bono |
And the Beat Goes On |
1991
|
Katharine Hepburn |
Me: Stories of My Life |
1991
|
La Toya Jackson |
La Toya: Growing Up in the Jackson Family |
1991
|
Brian Keenan |
An Evil Calling |
1991
|
Laurie Lee |
Cider with Rosie |
1959, published in the U.S. as The Edge of Day, 1960
|
Laurie Lee |
As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning |
1969
|
Laurie Lee |
A Moment of War |
1991
|
Kurt Vonnegut |
Fates Worse Than Death: An Autobiographical Collage |
1991
|
Reinaldo Arenas |
Before Night Falls: A Memoir |
1992
|
Chang Jung |
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China |
1992
|
Peter O'Toole |
Loitering with Intent: The Child |
1992
|
Blake Morrison |
And When Did You Last See Your Father? |
1993
|
Naguib Mahfouz |
Echoes of an Autobiography |
1994
|
Nelson Mandela |
A Long Walk to Freedom |
1994
|
Ann-Margret |
My Story |
1994
|
Tobias Wolff |
In Pharaoh's Army: Memories of a Lost War |
1994
|
Loni Anderson |
My Life in High Heels |
1995
|
Marlon Brando |
Songs My Mother Taught Me |
1995
|
M. F. K. Fisher |
Long Ago in France: The Years in Dijon||1991
|
M. F. K. Fisher |
To Begin Again: Stories and Memoirs 1908-1929 |
1992
|
M. F. K. Fisher |
Stay Me, Oh Comfort Me: Journals and Stories 1933-1941 |
1993
|
M. F. K. Fisher |
Last House: Reflections, Dreams and Observations 1943-1991 |
1995
|
Boy George |
Taking It Like a Man |
1995
|
Mary Karr |
The Liars' Club |
1995
|
Margaret Thatcher |
The Path to Power |
1995
|
Gore Vidal |
Palimpsest: A Memoir |
1995
|
Harold Brodkey |
The Wild Darkness: The Story of My Death |
1996
|
Patrick Chamoiseau |
Une enfance Créole |
1996
|
Frank McCourt |
Angela's Ashes |
1996
|
Barack Obama |
Dreams from My Father |
1996
|
Aerosmith |
Walk This Way |
1997
|
Spalding Gray |
It's a Slippery Slope |
1997
|
David Sedaris |
Naked |
1997
|
Sandra Bernhard |
Confessions of a Pretty Lady; Love, Love and Love; May I Kiss You On the Lips, Miss Sandra? |
1998
|
Kenneth Branagh |
Beginning |
1998
|
Jimmy Buffett |
Where Is Joe Merchant?; Tales From Margueritaville; A Pirate Looks At 50 |
1998
|
Jesse Lee Kercheval |
Space: A Memoir |
1998
|
Carroll O'Connor |
I Think I'm Outta Here |
1998
|
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam |
Wings of Fire |
1999
|
Ariel Dorfman |
Heading South, Looking North: A Bilingual Journey |
1999
|
Alec Guinness |
Blessings in Disguise |
1985
|
Alec Guinness |
My Name Escapes Me |
1996
|
Alec Guinness |
A Positively Final Appearance |
1999
|
Taslima Nasrin |
My Girlhood |
1999
|
Elie Wiesel |
Night |
1955
|
Elie Wiesel |
All Rivers Run to the Sea: Memoirs Vol. 1, 1928-1969 |
1995
|
Elie Wiesel |
And the Sea is Never Full: Memoirs Vol. II, 1969- |
1999
|
Dave Eggers |
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius: A Memoir Based on a True Story |
2000
|
Lorna Sage |
Bad Blood, A Memoir |
2000
|
Edward Said |
Out of Place: A Memoir |
2000
|
Linda Blair |
Going Vegan! |
2001
|
Danny Bonaduce |
Random Acts of Badness |
2001
|
Paula Fox |
Borrowed Finery |
2001
|
Maya Angelou |
The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou |
1969-2002
|
J. M. Coetzee |
Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life |
1997
|
J. M. Coetzee |
Youth: Scenes from Provincial Life II |
2002
|
Michael J. Fox |
Lucky Man |
2002
|
Ken Kaiser |
Planet of the Umps: My Life Behind the Plate, with Kevin Fisher |
2003
|
Azar Nafisi |
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir of Books |
2003
|
Sherwin Nuland |
Lost in America: A Journey With My Father |
2003
|
Nuala O'Faolain |
Almost There: The Onward Journey of a Dublin Woman |
2003
|
Craig Thompson |
Blankets |
2003
|
Emanuel Derman |
My Life as a Quant: Reflections on Physics and Finance |
2004
|
Aron Ralston |
Between a Rock and a Hard Place |
2004
|
Sean Astin |
There and Back Again: an Actor's Tale |
2004
|
Rodney Dangerfield |
It's Not Easy Being Me: a Lifetime With No Respect But Plenty of Sex & Drugs |
2004
|
Alan Alda |
Never Have Your Dog Stuffed And Other Things I've Learned |
2005
|
Dirk Benedict |
Confessions of a Kamikaze Cowboy |
2005
|
William F. Buckley, Jr. |
Miles Gone By: A Literary Autobiography |
2005
|
Medgar Evers |
The Autobiography of Medgar Evers |
published posthumously in 2005
|
René Galand |
War hentoù an tremened, 2 vols. |
2002–2005
|
Chelsea Handler |
My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands |
2005
|
Nena |
"Do You Want to Go With Me?" (Willst du mit mir gehn?) |
2005
|
Jeannette Walls |
The Glass Castle |
2005
|
Adrienne Barbeau |
There Are Worse Things I Could Do |
2006
|
Fidel Castro |
My Life: A Spoken Autobiography |
2006
|
Wole Soyinka |
The Man Died: Prison Notes |
1971
|
Wole Soyinka |
Aké: The Years of Childhood |
1981
|
Wole Soyinka |
Isara: A Voyage Around Essay |
1990
|
Wole Soyinka |
Ibadan: The Penkelemes Years: A Memoir 1946-65 |
1994
|
Wole Soyinka |
You Must Set Forth at Dawn |
2006
|
Ishmael Beah |
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier |
2007
|
Willie Aames and Maylo McCaslin |
Grace Is Enough |
2007
|
Ed Begley, Jr. |
Living Like Ed |
2008
|
Roald Dahl |
Boy: Tales of Childhood |
1984
|
Roald Dahl |
Going Solo |
1986
|
Roald Dahl |
More About Boy |
2008
|
Eminem |
The Way I Am |
2008
|
Chelsea Handler |
Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea |
2008
|
Tito Ortiz |
This Is Gonna Hurt: the Life of a Mixed Martial Arts Champion |
2008
|
Chip St. Clair |
The Butterfly Garden |
2008
|
Robert Wagner |
Pieces of My Heart |
2008
|
Bob Barker |
Priceless Memories |
2009
|
Ernest Borgnine |
Ernie: the Autobiography |
2009
|
Frankie Boyle |
My Shit Life So Far |
2009
|
Stephen Fry |
Moab Is My Washpot |
1997
|
Stephen Fry |
Ernie: the Autobiography |
2009
|
Taslima Nasrin |
Gusty Wind |
2002
|
Taslima Nasrin |
Speak Up or Split into Two |
2003
|
Taslima Nasrin |
Those Dark Days |
2004
|
Taslima Nasrin |
I am not fine, but you stay well my beloved country |
2006
|
Taslima Nasrin |
Nothing is there |
2010
|
Keith Richards |
Life |
2010
|
Melissa Sue Anderson |
The Way I See It: a Look Back at My Life |
2010
|
Todd Bridges |
Killing Willis |
2010
|
Lizzie Velazquez |
Lizzie Beautiful, The Lizzie Velásquez Story |
2010
|
Andrea Ashworth |
Once in a House on Fire |
2011
|
Meredith Baxter |
Untied |
2011
|
Florence Henderson |
Life Is Not a Stage: From Broadway Baby to a Lovely Lady and Beyond, with Joel Brokaw |
2011
|