Autobiographer
1. Frederick Douglass (1818)
Autobiographer
Former slave who became an abolitionist author and speaker. He detailed his remarkable life in his famous 1845 autobiography: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave.
2. Clarence Shepard Day Jr. (1874)
Autobiographer
An American author, he is best known for his autobiographical trilogy of God and My Father (1932), Life With Father (1935), and Life with Mother (1937). His other works include...
3. Hans Carossa (1970)
Autobiographer
A recipient of both the Goethe Prize and the Gottfried Keller Prize, Carossa is remembered for autobiographical works such as Rumanisches Tagebuch (A Romanian Diary) (1924) and Eine Kindheit (A Childhood) (1922).
4. Frank Slaughter (1908)
Autobiographer
An American fiction author and doctor, he is best known for his semi-autobiographical novel, That None Should Die. Two of his other novels, Sangaree and Doctors' Wives, were adapted into...
5. Joanne Greenberg (1970)
Autobiographer
American author best known for the semi-autobiographical novel I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, which she wrote under the pen name Hannah Green.
6. Cass Pennant (1958)
Autobiographer
Renowned as the first person to receive a long-term sentence for football hooliganism, he has gained significant fame for his self-titled autobiography and for the subsequent films and documentaries following...
7. John Grogan (1957)
Autobiographer
Detroit-born writer and journalist best known as the author of the popular autobiographical novel Marley & Me. He has also served as a columnist for The Philadelphia Inquirer and the...
