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Autobiographies for English AP* Language and Composition
Authors in RED have been cited in previous Language exams.

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Writing Your Autobiography

Edward Abbey
Desert Solitaire

Henry Adams (1838-1918) 
The Education of Henry Adams

Mitch Albom
Tuesdays with Morrie 
The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Isabel Allende
Paula 

Dorothy Allison
Bastard Out of Carolina
Two or Three Things I Know For Sure

Maya Angelou (1928-   )
"Living Well. Living Good"   (from the book Wouldn't Take Nothing for my Journey Now, 1993)
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Life Doesn't Frighten Me
All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes
Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now

Meena Alexander
Fault Lines : A Memoir
Manhattan Music : A Novel
Night-Scene The Garden (Short Works Series)
The Shock of Arrival
Truth Tales: Contemp Women Writers of India

Jimmy Santiago Baca 
A Place to Stand

Russell Baker 
Growing Up

James Baldwin
Collected Essays  (Notes of a Native Son / Nobody Knows My Name / The Fire Next Time / No Name in the Street / The Devil Finds Work) 
Notes of a Native Son
Go Tell It on the Mountain
Nobody Knows My Name  (More Notes of a Native Son)

James Boswell (1740 - 1795), Bibliography
The General Correspondence of James Boswell 1766-1769, 1768-1769 (Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell, Vol 7)

Rick Bragg
All Over But the Shoutin'

Linda Brent
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Truman Capote
In Cold Blood

Nien Chang
Life and Death in Shanghai

Da Chen
Colors of the Mountain

Judith Ortiz Cofer (1952-  )
"I am Latina wherever I am," Judith Ortiz Cofer on Identity; 
"Don't Misread My Signals." I May Dress in Scarlet, but Don't Mistake Me For a Hot Tamale.  From "Hers" Column, Glamour, Jan 1992. 
 The Year of Our Revolution  (New and Selected Stories and Poems; Woman in Front of the Sun: On Becoming a Writer) 
Silent Dancing (A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood; The Latin Deli : Prose and Poetry
An Island Like You : Stories of the Barrio)

Frank. Conroy
Stop-Time

Pat. Conroy
The Water is Wide, My Losing Season 

Jill Ker Conway,  The Road from Coorain

Bryce Courtenay
Power of One

Harry Crews
A Childhood

Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859)
Autobiographic Sketches

Malcolm Cowley 
Exile's Return:  A Literary Odyssey of the 1920s

Richard Henry Dana (1909?14)
Two Years Before the Mast

Isak Dinesen
Out of Africa

Michael Dorris
Broken Cord

Frederick Douglass (1817?-1895)
Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (His Early Life as a Slave, his Escape from Bondage, and his Complete History to the Present Time
The Heroic Slave
My Bondage, My Freedom
A Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass : An American Slave
Approaches to Teaching Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Autobiographies  (Narrative of the Life My Bondage and My Freedom Life and Times by Frederick Douglass, Henry Louis, Jr. Gates--Editor) 
Escape from Slavery : The Boyhood of Frederick Douglass in His Own Words

Mark Edmundson 
Teacher

Antoine de Saint-Exupery 
Wind, Sand, and Stars

Annie Dillard
An American Childhood

Mark Doty
Firebird: A Memoir
 

Dave Eggers
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

Gretel. Ehrlich
The Solace of Open Spaces

Ben Franklin (1706-1790) 
The Autobiography and Other Writings
Poor Richard's Almanac
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Hamlin Garland
A Son of the Middle Border

Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Colored People: A Memoir

Doris Kearns Goodwin 
Wait Til Next Year

Graham Greene
A Sort of Life

John Howard Griffinx
Black Like Me

Moss Hart
Act One 

Lillian Hellman (1905-1984)
Biography
An Unfinished Woman : A Memoir
Pentimento : A Book of Portraits

Ernest Hemingway
A Moveable Feast

Homer Hickham
Rocket Boys: A Memoir

Linda Hogan
The Woman Who Watches over the World:  A Native Memoir

Garrett Hongo
Volcano 

Helen Keller (1880-1968)
Biography
The Story of My Life

Maxine Hong Kingston (1940-   )
Biography
The Woman Warrior (Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts)
Tripmaster Monkey : His Fake Book
China Men
Conversations With Maxine Hong Kingston

  Jamaica Kincaid
My Brother
Annie John

Stephen King
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Jon Krakauer
Into Thin Air
Into the Wild

T. E. Lawrence (1888-1935)
Biography
Seven Pillars of Wisdom : A Triumph.

C.S. Lewis
Surprised by Joy

Anne Morrow Lindbergh
A Gift of the Sea

Norman MacLean
A River Runs Through It

Malcolm X
The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Beryl Markham
West With The Night

Bobbie Ann Mason
Clear Springs : A Family Story

Mark Mathabane
Kaffir Boy

James McBride
The Color of Water: 
A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother

Mary McCarthy
Memoirs of a Catholic Girlhood

Frank McCourt
Angela's Ashes
Tis: A Memoir

Thomas Merton
The Seven Storey Mountain

 N. Scott Momaday
The Way to Rainy Mountain

Anne Moody
Coming of Age in Mississippi

William Least Heat Moon
Blue Highways: A Journey into America

Wright Morris
Will's Boy

Vladimir Nabokov
Speak, Memory

Nasdijj
the blood runs like a river through my dreams

Pablo Neruda
Memoirs

John Henry Newman (1801?1890)
Biography
The Heart of Newman : A Synthesis.

Kathleen Norris
Dakota

Naomi Shihab Nye
Never in a Hurry

Sherwin Nuland
Lost in America: A Journey with My Father

Michael Ondaatje
Running in the Family

Cynthia Ozick
Art and Ardor

Samuel Pepys (1633-1703)
The Concise Pepys
 A Pepys Anthology (Passages from the Diary of Samuel Pepys)

Sidney Poitier 
Measure of a Man : A Spiritual Autobiography [UNABRIDGED]

Robert Pirsig
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Sylvia Plath
The Bell Jar

Richard Rodriguez
Hunger of Memory : The Education of Richard Rodriguez;    Days of Obligation : An Argument With My Mexican Father.

Mike Rose
Lives on the Boundary

Laura Rothenberg
Breathing for a Living

Esmeralda Santiago
When I Was Puerto Rican

Almost a Woman

Sedaris
Me Talk Pretty One Day

Esmerelda Santiago
Almost A Women

Barbara Scot
The Violet Shyness of Their Eyes
Prairie Reunion

Richard Selzer
Mortal Lessons: Notes on the Art of Surgery

Mary Lee Settle,  Addie : A Memoir

Kate Simon
Bronx Primitive

Wole Soyinka
Ake

Wallace Stegner
Wolf Willow

Ron Suskind
A Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey 
from the Inner City to the Ivy League

Lewis Thomas
Lives of a Cell, etc.

Henry David Thoreau
Walden

James Thurber
My Life and Hard Times

Mark Twain
Roughing It
Life on the Mississippi, etc.

Gore Vidal
Palimpsest

Alice Walker
In Search of Our Motherís Gardens

Booker T. Washington
Up from Slavery

Eudora Welty
One Writer's Beginnings

Bailey White
Mama Makes Up Her Mind

John Edgar Wideman
Brothers and Keepers

Tobias Wolff
This Boy's Life

Richard Wright (1908-    )
Chronology of Richard Wright's Life
Black Boy
Native Son.

Adeline Yen Mah
Falling Leaves

Anzia Yezierska (1885-1970) 
A Study Guide for Teaching the Works of Anzia Yezierska
Red Ribbon on a White Horse.

 

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