List of autobiographies

The following is a list of notable autobiographies:

By date

*Augustine of Hippo, "Confessions", 397
*Peter Abelard, "Historia Calamitatum", 12th century
*Jean-Jacques Rousseau, "Confessions" (Les Confessions), 1770, published 1782
*Thomas de Quincey, "Confessions of an English Opium-Eater", 1821
*Giacomo Casanova, "Histoire de ma vie", published posthumously in 1826.
*Fredrick Douglass, "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave", 1845
*Harriet Jacobs, "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl", 1861
*Benjamin Franklin, "The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin", 1869
*Ulysses S. Grant, "Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant", 1885
*Charles Darwin, "The Autobiography of Charles Darwin 1809-1882", published posthumously in 1887.
*Joaquim Nabuco, "Minha formação", 1900
*Booker T. Washington, "Up From Slavery", 1901
*Helen Keller, "The Story of My Life", 1903
*Henry Adams, "The Education of Henry Adams", 1907
*Mark Twain, "Mark Twain's Autobiography", posthumous, 1907
*Manfred von Richthofen (The Red Baron), "The Red Fighter Pilot", 1917
*Nikola Tesla, "My Inventions", c. 1919
*Adolf Hitler, "Mein Kampf (My Struggle)", 1925
*Mahatma Gandhi, "The Story of My Experiments with Truth", 1927 and 1929
*Black Elk and John J. Neihardt, "Black Elk Speaks", 1931
*Gertrude Stein, "The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas", 1933
*Jawaharlal Nehru, "An Autobiography", 1936
*Richard Wright, "Black Boy", 1945
*Nirad C Chaudhuri, "The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian" , 1951
*Malcolm X, "The Autobiography of Malcolm X", 1965
*Vladimir Nabokov, "Speak, Memory", 1966
*Anaïs Nin, "The Diary of Anaïs Nin", 1966-76
*Maya Angelou, "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings", 1969
*Roald Dahl, "Boy & Going Solo", published 1986
*Ronald Reagan, "An American Life", 1990
*Fidel Castro, "My Life - A Spoken Autobiography", 2006
*Ronald Reagan, "The Reagan Diaries", 2007

By name

* Peter Abelard, "Historia Calamitatum", 12th century
* Henry Adams, "The Education of Henry Adams", 1907
* Nadezhda Mandelstam, "Hope Against Hope", 1970
* Maya Angelou, "I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings", 1969
* Augustine of Hippo, "Confessions", 397
* Fidel Castro, "My Life - A Spoken Autobiography", 2006
* Nirad C Chaudhuri,"The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian" 1951
* Black Elk and John J. Neihardt, "Black Elk Speaks", 1931
* Roald Dahl, "Boy & Going Solo", 1986
* Charles Darwin, "The Autobiography of Charles Darwin 1809-1882", published posthumously in 1887.
* Giacomo Casanova, "Histoire de ma vie", published posthumously in 1826.
* Benvenuto Cellini, "Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini", 1728
* Fredrick Douglass, "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave", 1845
* Alexandre Dumas, père, "Mes Mémoires", 1852 - 1856
* Benjamin Franklin, "The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin", 1869
* Mahatma Gandhi, "The Story of My Experiments with Truth", 1927 and 1929
* Al-Ghazali, "The Deliverer from Error", 12th century
* Dizzy Gillespie, "Dizzy: To be or not to bop : the autobiography of Dizzy Gillespie with Al Fraser"
* Ulysses S. Grant, "Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant", 1885
* Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, "The Autobiography Of Goethe: Truth And Poetry, From My Own Life", 1848
* Adolf Hitler, "Mein Kampf", 1925
* Zora Neale Hurston, "Dust Tracks on the Road", 1942
* Harriet Jacobs, "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl", 1861
* Thomas Jefferson, "Autobiography"
* Helen Keller, "The Story of My Life", 1903
* Alphonse de Lamartine, "Les Confidences", 1849, "Nouvelles confidences", 1851, "Mémoires Politiques", 1963, etc
* C. S. Lewis, "Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life"
* Claude McKay, "A Long Way From Home", 1937
* John Stuart Mill, "Autobiography", 1873
* Yehudi Menuhin, "Unfinished Journey: Twenty Years Later", 1999
* Vladimir Nabokov, "Speak, Memory", 1966
* Joaquim Nabuco, "Minha formação", 1900
* Jawaharlal Nehru, "Autobiography", 1936
* Anaïs Nin, "The Diary of Anaïs Nin", 1966-76
* Thomas de Quincey, "Confessions of an English Opium-Eater", 1821
* Ronald Reagan, "An American Life", 1990 & "The Reagan Diaries", 2007
* Manfred von Richthofen (The Red Baron), "Der rote Kampfflieger" (The Red Battle Flier), 1917
* Jean-Jacques Rousseau, "Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau" (Les Confessions), 1770, published 1782
* Bertrand Russell, "Autobiography", 1967, 1969
* Jean-Paul Sartre, "The Words", 1964
* Albert Schweitzer, "Out of My Life and Thought", 1933
* George Bernard Shaw, "Shaw: An Autobiography, 1898-1950; the Playwright Years "
* Alan Sillitoe, "Life Without Armour", 1995
* Horace Silver, "Let's Get to the Nitty Gritty: The Autobiography of Horace Silver", 2007
* Isaac Bashevis Singer, "Love and Exile: An Autobiographical Trilogy ", 1984, "In My Father's Court", 1966, etc
* Lincoln Steffens, "Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens", 1931
* Gertrude Stein, "The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas", 1933
* Nikola Tesla, "My Inventions: "The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla", 1919
* Leo Tolstoy, "Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth", 1852 – 1856
* Mark Twain, "Mark Twain's Autobiography", 1917
* Giambattista Vico, "The Autobiography of Giambattista Vico", 1735-1741
* Voltaire, Mémoires pour servir à la vie de M. de Voltaire, écrits par lui-même, 1759, published 1784
* Booker T. Washington, "Up From Slavery", 1901
* H. G. Wells, "An Experiment in Autobiography", 1934
* Frank Lloyd Wright, "Autobiography", 1943
* Richard Wright, "Black Boy", 1945
* Malcolm X, "The Autobiography of Malcolm X", 1965
* William Butler Yeats, "Autobiography", 1936
* Paramahansa Yogananda, "Autobiography of a Yogi"