The following is a list of notable autobiographies:

[edit] By date

• Augustine of Hippo, Confessions, 397
• Peter Abelard, Historia Calamitatum, 12th century
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Confessions (Les Confessions), 1770, published 1782
• Thomas de Quincey, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, 1821
• Giacomo Casanova, Histoire de ma vie, published posthumously in 1826.
• Fredrick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, 1845
• Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, 1861
• Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, 1869
• Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, 1885
• Charles Darwin, The Autobiography of Charles Darwin 1809-1882, published posthumously in 1887.
• Joaquim Nabuco, Minha formação, 1900
• Booker T. Washington, Up From Slavery, 1901
• Helen Keller, The Story of My Life, 1903
• Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams, 1907
• Mark Twain, Mark Twain's Autobiography, posthumous, 1907
• Manfred von Richthofen (The Red Baron), The Red Fighter Pilot, 1917
• Nikola Tesla, My Inventions, c. 1919
• Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf (My Struggle), 1925
• Mahatma Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, 1927 and 1929
• Black Elk and John J. Neihardt, Black Elk Speaks, 1931
• Gertrude Stein, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, 1933
• Jawaharlal Nehru, An Autobiography, 1936
• Richard Wright, Black Boy, 1945
• Nirad C Chaudhuri, The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian , 1951
• Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, 1965
• Vladimir Nabokov, Speak, Memory, 1966
• Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1966-76
• Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, 1969
• Roald Dahl, Boy & Going Solo, published 1986
• Ronald Reagan, An American Life, 1990
• Fidel Castro, My Life - A Spoken Autobiography, 2006
• Ronald Reagan, The Reagan Diaries, 2007
• Eminem, The Way I Am, 2008

[edit] By name

• Peter Abelard, Historia Calamitatum, 12th century
• Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams, 1907
• Nadezhda Mandelstam, Hope Against Hope, 1970
• Maya Angelou, I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, 1969
• Augustine of Hippo, Confessions, 397
• Fidel Castro, My Life - A Spoken Autobiography, 2006
• Nirad C Chaudhuri,The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian 1951
• Black Elk and John J. Neihardt, Black Elk Speaks, 1931
• Roald Dahl, Boy & Going Solo, 1986
• Charles Darwin, The Autobiography of Charles Darwin 1809-1882, published posthumously in 1887.
• Giacomo Casanova, Histoire de ma vie, published posthumously in 1826.
• Benvenuto Cellini, Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini, 1728
• Fredrick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, 1845
• Alexandre Dumas, père, Mes Mémoires, 1852 - 1856
• Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, 1869
• Mahatma Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, 1927 and 1929
• Al-Ghazali, The Deliverer from Error, 12th century
• Dizzy Gillespie, Dizzy: To be or not to bop : the autobiography of Dizzy Gillespie with Al Fraser
• Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, 1885
• Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, The Autobiography Of Goethe: Truth And Poetry, From My Own Life, 1848
• Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, 1925
• Zora Neale Hurston, Dust Tracks on the Road, 1942
• Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, 1861
• Thomas Jefferson, Autobiography
• Helen Keller, The Story of My Life, 1903
• Alphonse de Lamartine, Les Confidences, 1849, Nouvelles confidences, 1851, Mémoires Politiques, 1963, etc
• C. S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life
• Claude McKay, A Long Way From Home, 1937
• John Stuart Mill, Autobiography, 1873
• Yehudi Menuhin, Unfinished Journey: Twenty Years Later, 1999
• Vladimir Nabokov, Speak, Memory, 1966
• Joaquim Nabuco, Minha formação, 1900
• Jawaharlal Nehru, Autobiography, 1936
• Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1966-76
• Thomas de Quincey, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, 1821
• Ronald Reagan, An American Life, 1990 & The Reagan Diaries, 2007
• Manfred von Richthofen (The Red Baron), Der rote Kampfflieger (The Red Battle Flier), 1917
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Les Confessions), 1770, published 1782
• Bertrand Russell, Autobiography, 1967, 1969
• Jean-Paul Sartre, The Words, 1964
• Albert Schweitzer, Out of My Life and Thought, 1933
• George Bernard Shaw, Shaw: An Autobiography, 1898-1950; the Playwright Years
• Alan Sillitoe, Life Without Armour, 1995
• Horace Silver, Let's Get to the Nitty Gritty: The Autobiography of Horace Silver, 2007
• Isaac Bashevis Singer, Love and Exile: An Autobiographical Trilogy , 1984, In My Father's Court, 1966, etc
• Lincoln Steffens, Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens, 1931
• Gertrude Stein, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, 1933
• Nikola Tesla, My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla, 1919
• Leo Tolstoy, Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth, 1852 – 1856
• Mark Twain, Mark Twain's Autobiography, 1917
• Giambattista Vico, The Autobiography of Giambattista Vico, 1735-1741
• Voltaire, Mémoires pour servir à la vie de M. de Voltaire, écrits par lui-même, 1759, published 1784
• Booker T. Washington, Up From Slavery, 1901

Julie Walters Thats Another Story 2008

• H. G. Wells, An Experiment in Autobiography, 1934
• Frank Lloyd Wright, Autobiography, 1943
• Richard Wright, Black Boy, 1945
• Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, 1965
• William Butler Yeats, Autobiography, 1936
• Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi