autobiography

A collection of six-word memoirs by bestselling and little-known writers, submitted to the online "SMITH Magazine.".

Just before committing suicide, Tender Branson dictates his life story and reveals what life was like as a member of the Creedish Death Cult.

Explains how to teach children memoir writing, providing ideas for mini-lessons, writing prompts and activities, revision, peer conferences, and teacher-student conferences and presenting a unit designed to help students utilize the knowledge and skills they learn from memoir writing when taking standarized tests.

Explains what types of details about your life could be included in a book about yourself.

Author Rebecca Solnit shares stories from her life and how her experiences, including the death of a friend, dealing with her mother's illness, and struggling with breast cancer, have influenced who she has become and her work.

Examines the works of a variety of authors including a concise biography, critical extracts, adn bibliography of the author's separate publications: Maya Angelou, Vera Brittain, Frances Fanny Burney, Annie Dillard, Janet Frame, Martha Gellhorn, Lillian Hellman, Violet Hunt, Zora Neale Hurston, Harriet Ann Jacobs, Alice James, Maxine Hong Kingston.

Presents critical essays on Maya Angelou's "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" and includes a chronology, a bibliography, and an introduction by critic Harold Bloom.

When Mary Anne receives a class assignment to write her autobiography she realizes she has a lot to say about her life, and tells about the loss of her mother, the time she wanted glasses, and meeting her grandmother again after eleven years.

A simple guide to writing an autobiography with tips on getting started, setting the scene, characters, viewpoint, plots, vocabulary, and more.

Collection of classic and recent Latino writing in English.