Autobiography E-book
Author: Benjamin Franklin
Genre: History / Biography, Literature
Franklin, Benjamin (1706-1790) A preeminent American statesman, author,
inventor, printer and scientist, he is sometimes call the "wisest American."
After working for a time as a printer's apprentice to his brother James,
Franklin ran away to Pennsylvania in 1723 and went on to become
Philadelphia's chief citizen. There, among other things, Franklin ran his
own newspaper, published "Poor Richard's Almanac," and became the city's
postmaster.
Autobiography (1868) The first American literary classic, Franklin's
Autobiography, written from 1771 to just before his death in 1790, covers
only the first fifty-one years of his life. The simple and witty style
Franklin employed in writing this work is often referred to as the beginning
of American prose. Parts of the Autobiography appeared in France in the
1790s, but the complete work was not published until 1868.
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