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An autobiography is a book about the life of a person, written by that person. The form of autobiography goes back to antiquity. Biographers generally rely on a wide variety of documents and viewpoints; an autobiography, however, may be based entirely on the writer's memory. Closely associated with autobiography (and sometimes difficult to precisely distinguish from it) is the form of memoir. A memoir forms a subclass of autobiography – although the terms 'memoir' and 'autobiography' are almost interchangeable in modern parlance. Memoir is autobiographical writing, but not all autobiographical writing follows the criteria for memoir.
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[edit]- The narrative of a Japanese; what he has seen and the people he has met in the course of the last forty years., by Joseph Heco
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[edit]- A Small Boy and Others (1913) by Henry James
- Notes of a Son and Brother (1914) by Henry James
- The Middle Years (unfinished, published posthumously 1917) by Henry James
- The Life of Flavius Josephus
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[edit]- A Blighted Life, 1880 by Rosina Bulwer Lytton
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[edit]- Recollections of a Virginian in the Mexican, Indian, and Civil Wars, 1894 by Dabney Herndon Maury
- Max Havelaar, 1860 by Multatuli
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[edit]- Olden Times in Colorado, 1916 by Carlyle Channing Davis
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[edit]- The Autobiography of Samuel Smiles, LLD , 1905 by Samuel Smiles
- The Reminiscences of Carl Schurz, 1906
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[edit]- Memoirs of Henry Villard, 1904