Synopsis
A collection of five classic autobiographies features the autobiography of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson, a New England minister`s wife captured by native Americans, Benjamin Franklin, Frederick Douglass, Mark Twain, and Zitkala-Sa. Original. (view table of contents) Amazon.com description: Product Description: A collection of five classic autobiographies features the autobiography of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson, a New England minister`s wife captured by native Americans, Benjamin Franklin, Frederick Douglass, Mark Twain, and Zitkala-Sa
About the Author
William L. Andrews is the Joyce and Elizabeth Hall Professor of American Literature at the University of Kansas. A prizewinning scholar of African-American literature, Andrews is the author of To Tell a Free Story: The First Century of Afro-American Autobiography, 1760-1865. He is the editor of Collected Stories of Charles W. Chesnutt, Three Classic Stories of Charles W. Chesnutt, Three Classic African-American Novels, and The African-American Novel in the Age of Reflection: Three Classics.
Paul John Eakin, Ruth N. Halls Professor Emeritus of English at Indiana University, is the author of several books on autobiography, including Fictions in Autobiography: Studies in the Art of Self-Invention, Touching the World: Reference in Autobiography, How Our Lives Become Stories: Making Selves, and Living Autobiographically: How We Create Identity in Narrative. He is also the editor of American Autobiography: Retrospect and Prospect.
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