The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is the unfinished record of Benjamin Franklin’s own life that he worked on between 1771 and 1790. Franklin appears to have called the work his Memoirs, and the narrative reflects the periods during which he wrote.
Franklin divided his account into four parts, with actual breaks between the first three parts and Part Three continuing into Part Four without an authorial break. The manuscript experienced a tortuous publication history after Franklin’s death and has become a widely cited example of an autobiography in American letters, as noted by editor F. W. Pine in 1916.
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Book details
- Publisher
- Tech Tok Ltd
- Publication date
- July 30, 2023
- Print length
- 195 pages
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781915932747
Politics & Social Sciences + Legislative Branch + Politics & Government
What to Know Before Reading The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
The narrative begins as Franklin’s own first-person record and is organized into four parts with clear breaks between the first three. The work is an unfinished self-account written across decades, so its structure reflects different writing periods. The manuscript’s publication after Franklin’s death followed a complicated, tortuous path. Attention centers on Franklin himself, his choices about how to tell his life, and the uneven, multipart form that results.
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