Alphabiography

Alphabiography

An alphabiography is an autobiography, often set as an English studies project for high school or college students, consisting of a set of twenty-six short stories or chapters about the writer's life.

Each story or chapter has a title starting with a different letter of the alphabet, for example: "Apple growing", "Baseball", "Cynthia" etc. At the end a summation is undertaken.

The book "Totally Joe" by James Howe is about Joe Bunch who is given an assignment to write his alphabiography – although he thinks it will be boring, it turns out to be the gateway for him to learn much about his own identity as a gay young adult. [ [http://www.simonsays.com/assets/isbn/068983957X/GU01_068983957X.pdf SimonSays - "Totally Joe" by James Howe] ]

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  • Autobiography — An autobiography, from the Greek αὐτός autos self , βίος bios life and γράφειν graphein to write ,, is a biography written by the predicate or composed conjointly with a collaborative writer (styled as told to or with ). The term was first used… …   Wikipedia

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