The Norton Book of American Autobiography

"The essential American form of expression."-from the Introduction by Jay Parini

PREFACE

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INTRODUCTION

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MARY ROWLANDSON (CA. 1635-1711) FROM The True History of the Captivity and Deliverance of Mary Rowlandson

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JONATHAN EDWARDS (1703-1758) FROM The Life and Character of the Late Rev. Mr. Jonathan Edwards

39

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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (1706-1790) FROM The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

52

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ELIZABETH ASHBRIDGE (1713-1755) FROM Some Account of the Fore-Part of the Life of Elizabeth Ashbridge

63

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BLACK HAWK (1767-1838) FROM An Autobiography

80

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HARRIET JACOBS (CA. 1813-1897) FROM Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

94

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ELIZABETH CADY STANTON (1815-1902) FROM Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences, 1815-1897

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RICHARD HENRY DANA (1815-1882) FROM Two Years before the Mast

110

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HENRY DAVID THOREAU (1817-1862) FROM Walden

123

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FREDERICK DOUGLASS (1817-1895) FROM My Bondage and My Freedom

135

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WALT WHITMAN (1819-1892) FROM Specimen Days in America

151

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U. S. GRANT (1822-1885) FROM Memoirs

165

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ELIZABETH HOBBS KECKLEY (1824-1907) FROM Behind the Scenes; or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House

174

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LUCY LARCOM (1824-1893) FROM A New England Girlhood

185

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MARK TWAIN (1835-1910) FROM Life on the Mississippi

197

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MARY ANN WEBSTER LOUGHBOROUGH (1836-1887) FROM My Cave Life in Vicksburg

214

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HENRY ADAMS (1838-1918) FROM The Education of Henry Adams

219

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HENRY JAMES (1843-1916) FROM Notes of a Son and Brother

228

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BOOKER T. WASHINGTON (1856-1915) FROM Up from Slavery

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W.E.B. DU BOIS (1868-1963) FROM The Souls of Black Folk

253

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EMMA GOLDMAN (1869-1940) FROM Living My Life

262

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ALEXANDER BERKMAN (1870-1936) FROM Prison Memories of an Anarchist

278

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THEODORE DREISER (1871-1945) FROM A Hoosier Holiday

289

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GERTRUDE STEIN (1874-1946) FROM The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas

300

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HELEN KELLER (1880-1968) FROM The Story of My Life

312

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MARY ANTIN (1881-1949) FROM The Promised Land

323

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ZORA NEALE HURSTON (1891-1960) FROM Dust Tracks on a Road

333

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PASCAL D'ANGELO (1894- ) FROM Son of Italy

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F. SCOTT FITZGERALD (1896-1940) "The Crack-Up"

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MARY PAIK LEE (1900- ) FROM Quiet Odyssey

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RICHARD WRIGHT (1908-1960) FROM Black Boy

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EUDORA WELTY (1909- ) FROM One Writer's Beginnings

389

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WALLACE STEGNER (1909-1993) FROM Wolf Willow

401

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MARY McCARTHY (1912-1989) FROM Memories of a Catholic Girlhood

407

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THOMAS MERTON (1915-1968) FROM The Seven Storey Mountain

426

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ALFRED KAZIN (1915-1998) FROM A Walker in the City

435

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JAMES BALDWIN (1924-1987) FROM Notes of a Native Son

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GORE VIDAL (1925- ) FROM Palimpsest

450

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MALCOLM X (1925-1965) WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF ALEX HALEY (1921-1992) FROM The Autobiography of Malcolm X

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GAY TALESE (1932- ) FROM Unto the Sons

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HARRY CREWS (1935- ) FROM A Childhood: The Biography of a Place

489

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VIVIAN GORNICK (1935- ) FROM Fierce Attachments

495

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FRANK CONROY (1936- ) FROM Stop-Time

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JOYCE CAROL OATES (1938- ) "A Letter to My Mother Carolina Oates on Her 78th Birthday November 8, 1995"

509

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MAXINE HONG KINGSTON (1940- ) FROM The Woman Warrior

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SAMUEL F. PICKERING, JR. (1941- ) "Son and Father"

526

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ERICA JONG (1942- ) FROM Fear of Fifty

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JAMES ALAN McPHERSON (1943- ) FROM "Going Up to Atlanta"

549

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RICHARD RODRIGUEZ (1944- ) FROM Days of Obligation

568

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PAUL MONETTE (1945-1995) FROM Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir

586

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ANNIE DILLARD (1945- ) FROM An American Childhood

593

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SCOTT RUSSELL SANDERS (1945- ) "Buckeye"

599

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KATHLEEN NORRIS (1947- ) FROM The Cloister Walk

605

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JOHN ELDER (1947- ) FROM Reading the Mountains of Home

612

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JULIA ALVAREZ (1950- ) "Picky Eater"

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BELL HOOKS (1952- ) FROM Bone Black

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LUIS J. RODRIGUEZ (1954- ) FROM Always Running

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MARY KARR (1954- ) FROM The Liars' Club

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TERRY TEMPEST WILLIAMS (1955- ) FROM Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place

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HILTON ALS (1961- ) FROM The Women

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ALANE SALIERNO MASON (1964- ) "Respect"

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SHERMAN ALEXIE (1966- ) FROM First Indian on the Moon

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ELIZABETH WURTZEL (1967- ) "Parental Guidance Suggested"

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