Science fiction author Robert A Heinlein once wrote: Autobiography is usually honest but never truthful. An autobiography is the story of a person’s life. It is different to a diary, which is usually ...

'Tom Sawyer' and 'Huck Finn' author lost children, faced financial ruin. Nov. 22, 2010— -- A century after his death, Mark Twain's wry, curmudgeonly voice is back with the publication of a ...

The autobiography of Omar ibn Said, the only known narrative by an American slave written in Arabic, is now on digital display at the Library of Congress. The manuscript and more than 40 other related ...

In 1904, Mark Twain wrote that he had "hit upon the right way to do an Autobiography." What he had discovered, says historian Robert Hirst, was the art of dictation. Instead of writing down his ...

Biographies and autobiographies are both types of non-fiction stories about someone’s life. They are both based in fact but there are some key differences between them. Watch this video in which ...

Omar Ibn Said was 37 years old when he was taken from his West African home and transported to Charleston, South Carolina, as a slave in the 1800s. Now, his one-of-a-kind autobiographical manuscript ...

If you had any notion that, at 83 years old, Martha Stewart should be slowing down, she's speeding by you in the fast lane. After announcing her 100th cookbook earlier this year, she revealed another ...