The Norton book of American autobiography

In this diverse and abundant selection, Parini brings together the classics in the tradition of American memoir with an astonishing variety of modern and contemporary writings.

Here are the voices of the Founding Fathers and of African American slaves; of transcendentalists and suffragists; of ancestors such as Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Mark Twain, Henry James, Helen Keller, Zora Neale Hurston, Gertrude Stein, James Baldwin, and many others; and of contemporaries including Maxine Hong...