"Library undertook to produce a complete autobiography of Twain, based upon material within their collection. The stated goal is ""to publish the complete text as nearly as possible in the way Mark Twain intended it to be published after his death."". This was published in three-volumes between 2010 and 2015, with the first in the 100th anniversary year of Twain’s death. All three volumes are available online with introductions and historical annotation from the editors also included with the text. The head editor for this work was Harriet Elinor Smith. The first volume of a three-volume edition runs to 760"
"more conventional form, thereby eliminating some of Twain's humor and the flow of the book. The first volume of the autobiography, over 736 pages, was published by the University of California in November 2010, 100 years after his death, as Twain wished. It soon became an unexpected best-seller, making Twain one of a very few authors publishing new best-selling volumes in the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. Twain's works have been subjected to censorship efforts. According to Stuart (2013), ""Leading these banning campaigns, generally, were religious organizations or individuals in positions of influence – not so much working librarians, who"
"Twain's (purported) concern for those who could be aggrieved by the text, and more likely an attempt to extend the copyright. Various modern reports refer to a ""100 year embargo"" imposed by Twain on his own autobiography's release which expired in 2010. Twain himself had published ""Chapters from My Autobiography"" in twenty-five instalments in the ""North American Review"" in 1906-7. Since Twain's death in 1910, a number of different editors have made attempts to impose some order on the whole of the material by selection and reorganization, producing several decidedly different published versions of ""The Autobiography"". Creating a publishable ""Autobiography"""
"The Fry Chronicles The Fry Chronicles: An Autobiography is the 2010 autobiography of Stephen Fry. The book is a continuation from the end of his 1997 publication of his first autobiography, """". Though without a strict chronology, it concentrates on a seven-year period of Fry's life, taking up the story after his release from prison, his time at the University of Cambridge and his career in comedy by the late 1980s. The book is Fry's ninth and his second volume of autobiography. Critics have called the book ""candid, sincere, and charming, with insightful commentary if occasionally flat stories"". It was"
"describing his ""wonderful imagination"" and calling him ""the greatest contemporary Portuguese writer"". Saramago had continued his writing until his death. His most recent publication, ""Claraboia"", was published in 2011, after his death. Saramago had suffered from pneumonia a year before his death. Having been thought to have made a full recovery, he had been scheduled to attend the Edinburgh International Book Festival in August 2010. Portugal declared two days of mourning. There were tributes from senior international politicians: Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (Brazil), Bernard Kouchner (France) and José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero (Spain), while Cuba's Raúl and Fidel Castro sent"
"title, Lee Child's ""61 Hours"", by 8,000 copies. The Fry Chronicles The Fry Chronicles: An Autobiography is the 2010 autobiography of Stephen Fry. The book is a continuation from the end of his 1997 publication of his first autobiography, """". Though without a strict chronology, it concentrates on a seven-year period of Fry's life, taking up the story after his release from prison, his time at the University of Cambridge and his career in comedy by the late 1980s. The book is Fry's ninth and his second volume of autobiography. Critics have called the book ""candid, sincere, and charming, with"
"that Hinkins promised him ""spiritual healing"" in exchange for crediting ""John-Roger"" as co-author of a series of self-improvement manuals which later made the ""New York Times"" best-seller lists. Hinkins sued McWiliams for libel, and in due course obtained full rights to ""Life 102"". The volume has been out of print ever since. When the book later appeared on another website without permission, McWilliams sent a notarized letter requesting the site owner remove it: McWilliams died in June 2000. Life 102 Life 102: What to Do When Your Guru Sues You is a book by Peter McWilliams. Couched in the tone"
"Death"" (2000). In March 2018, poet Francis Daulerio published ""Please Plant This Book"" - a reinterpretation of and homage to Brautigan's book of the same name on its 50th anniversary. The book contained seeds to be planted, packed in sleeves which carry poems by Daulerio and illustrations by Scott Hutchison. Profits from the book were to go to The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. Hutchison took his own life in May 2018, and in September an expanded version of the book was published, after the original edition had sold out. The book contains a foreword by Ianthe Brautigan and an"
"The Confessions of Aleister Crowley The Confessions of Aleister Crowley : An Autohagiography, is a partial autobiography by the poet and occultist Aleister Crowley. It covers the early years of his life up until the mid-late 1920s but does not include the latter part of Crowley's life and career between then and his death in 1947. <nowiki>Mandrake Press published the first two sections as separate volumes under the title ""The Spirit of Solitude"" in 1929.</nowiki> Crowley had originally intended that the work would be published in six volumes, but only two of these had been published before the Great Depression"
"severe stroke following emergency surgery, and died on 11 February 2006 aged 89. His autobiography, ""My Life"", was published in 2016 to mark the centenary of his birth. Assembled from Dickens' own writings by his daughter Jane Monk and Marion Dickens Lloyd, the book has an introduction by Miriam Margolyes and was launched at the Charles Dickens Museum in September 2016. Cedric Charles Dickens Cedric David Charles Dickens (24 September 1916 – 11 February 2006) was an English author and businessman, and the last surviving great-grandson of Charles Dickens and steward of his literary legacy. Cedric ""Ceddy"" Dickens was the"
"H. P. Lovecraft: A Life H. P. Lovecraft: A Life is a biography of H. P. Lovecraft (1890–1937) by S. T. Joshi, first published by Necronomicon Press in 1996. The original one-volume edition was reissued in 2004, with a new afterword by Joshi. A new revised/uncut edition (as ""I Am Providence: The Life and Times of H.P. Lovecraft"") (2 vols) has been issued in 2010 (Hippocampus Press); this restores 150,000 words cut for space reasons from the original edition, and is also thoroughly revised and updated in regard to new information on Lovecraft that has come to light since 1996."
"Commando (book) Commando is the autobiography of guitarist and songwriter Johnny Ramone of the punk rock band The Ramones. The book was released in 2012 by Linda Ramone, surviving spouse of Johnny Ramone, following the death of Johnny in 2004 from prostate cancer. ""Commando"" is an autobiography on the life of Johnny Ramone. He began writing the book in 1999 when he was diagnosed with prostate cancer. In an interview with Billboard Magazine, Linda Ramone stated: The book is 176 pages and contains pictures that were chosen by Linda Ramone. It contains musings from Johnny's childhood and personal stories of"
"books that came to light after his untimely death in the Spring 1990. His great desire and recognized literary merit is offset by their peers, receiving countless posthumous tributes in addition to public and private institutions. In 1997 the city of Palencia Palencia inaugurated a street with his name, also his unpublished poems were published, and even in 2008 César Augusto Ayuso meets his literary studies, giving way in the book Love recalling the classic authors who influenced his work. In 2010, Beas de Segura pays tribute in memory of the 20 years after his death, with a cultural event"
"The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography is an autobiographical work by Sidney Poitier. On January 26, 2007, Oprah Winfrey chose it for her book club. In this memoir, Poitier, looks back on his celebrated life and career. He explores elements of character and personal values to take his own measure as a man, as a husband and a father, and as an actor. Poitier credits his parents and his childhood on tiny Cat Island in the Bahamas for equipping him with the unflinching sense of right and wrong and of"
"Last Words (book) Last Words is the autobiography of American stand-up comedian George Carlin. It was published on November 10, 2009. ""Last Words"" tells the story of his life from his conception, literally, to his final years; he died on June 22, 2008 at the age of 71. He also wrote a special parting gift to the world. The book contains photos taken throughout Carlin's life. In 1993, George Carlin asked his friend and bestselling author Tony Hendra to help him write his autobiography, although Carlin called it a ""sortabiography"". The two of them had scores of conversations, many were"
"The Autobiography of Malcolm X The Autobiography of Malcolm X was published in 1965, the result of a collaboration between human rights activist Malcolm X and journalist Alex Haley. Haley coauthored the autobiography based on a series of in-depth interviews he conducted between 1963 and Malcolm X's 1965 assassination. The ""Autobiography"" is a spiritual conversion narrative that outlines Malcolm X's philosophy of black pride, black nationalism, and pan-Africanism. After the leader was killed, Haley wrote the book's epilogue. He described their collaborative process and the events at the end of Malcolm X's life. While Malcolm X and scholars contemporary to"
"men in his university days and later. The Confessions of Aleister Crowley The Confessions of Aleister Crowley : An Autohagiography, is a partial autobiography by the poet and occultist Aleister Crowley. It covers the early years of his life up until the mid-late 1920s but does not include the latter part of Crowley's life and career between then and his death in 1947. <nowiki>Mandrake Press published the first two sections as separate volumes under the title ""The Spirit of Solitude"" in 1929.</nowiki> Crowley had originally intended that the work would be published in six volumes, but only two of these"
"published by Michael Joseph on 13 September 2010 in the United Kingdom and in the United States. It was simultaneously published as an e-book (in regular and an enhanced version), an audiobook, and an iOS application by ePenguin; both imprints of Penguin Books. Fry travelled to Los Angeles in January 2010 to write his second autobiography, when he publicly announced his ""self-imposed exile"" from various online services, such as Twitter. Fry returned to Britain and various online services in late April 2010. He publicly announced his return on his blog that there had been a few ""exceptions"" to his self-imposed"
"My Autobiography (Mussolini) My Autobiography is a book by Benito Mussolini. It is a dictated, narrative autobiography recounting the author's youth, his years as an agitator and journalist, his experiences in World War I, the formation and revolutionary struggles of the Fascist Party, the March on Rome, and his early years in power. It was first published in 1928; Richard Washburn Child, together with Luigi Barzini, Jr., served as the book's ghostwriter. Mussolini dictated parts of the text to his brother Arnaldo Mussolini who handed the manuscripts, together with other material supplied by Mussolini's lover Margherita Sarfatti, to Richard Washburn"
"most of them explore the theme of solitude. On his death in April 2014, Juan Manuel Santos, the President of Colombia, described him as ""the greatest Colombian who ever lived."" Mario Vargas Llosa, (b. 1936) is a Peruvian writer, politician, journalist, essayist, college professor, and recipient of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature. Vargas Llosa is one of Latin America's most significant novelists and essayists, and one of the leading writers of his generation. Some critics consider him to have had a larger international impact and worldwide audience than any other writer of the Latin American Boom. Upon announcing the"
"Agatha Christie: An Autobiography An Autobiography is the title of the recollections of crime writer Agatha Christie published posthumously by Collins in the UK and by Dodd, Mead & Company in the US in November 1977, almost two years after the writer's death in January 1976. The UK edition retailed at £7.95 and the US edition at $15.00. It is by some considerable margin the longest of her works, the UK first edition running to 544 pages. It was translated and published in Greek, Italian, Polish, Portuguese and Spanish. Christie provides a foreword and an epilogue to the book in"
"Destiny of Souls Destiny of Souls is a book by Michael Newton (9 December 1931 – 22 September 2016), published in 2000. Newton was a hypnotherapist who claimed to have developed his own age regression technique. In his second book, and through what he calls research into the afterlife, Michael Newton claims to have documented the results of his clinical work in spiritual hypnotherapy. These are presented in a form of case studies and Newton asserts that they uncover the hidden aspects of the spirit world. ""Publishers Weekly"" in their review said that this book was ""a rich volume, chock-full"
"life. Poitier explores the nature of sacrifice and commitment, price and humility, rage and forgiveness, and paying the price for artistic integrity. What emerges is a picture of a man in the face of limits; his own as well as the world's. The translation in complicated Chinese () of this autobiography was done by Fongfong Olivia Wei, and published by Triumph Publishing Company in Taipei, Taiwan, in the year 2002. The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography is an autobiographical work by Sidney Poitier. On January 26, 2007, Oprah Winfrey chose"
"years of research and writing was published in the United States in 2009 as ""Koestler: The Literary and Political Odyssey of a Twentieth Century Skeptic,"" and in the UK in 2010 as ""Koestler, The Indispensable Intellectual."" The book won the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for the best biography of 2009 in the United States and the Spears Magazine Award for best biography of 2010 in the UK. It was also shortlisted for the 2010 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for biography. The New York Times Book Review listed it as one of the “100 Best Books of 2010.” In 1985,"
"for best historical crime novel of 2010. As well, he was made Honorary Life President of the Scottish 1820 Society (1989), and Honorary Life Member of the Irish Literary Society (2002). Ellis's wife, Dorothea Cheesmur Ellis (11 September 1940 – 30 March 2016) died of cancer at age 76. Peter Berresford Ellis Peter Berresford Ellis (born 10 March 1943) is a British historian, literary biographer, and novelist who has published over 98 books to date either under his own name or his pseudonyms Peter Tremayne and Peter MacAlan. He has also published 100 short stories. Under Peter Tremayne, he is"
"'Never Give Up', written by the American writer Ron Whitehead in 1994, inspired by the Dalai Lama. My Spiritual Autobiography My Spiritual Autobiography is a book published in 2009, compiled by from speeches and interviews of the 14th Dalai Lama, . The book is a compilation of unpublished texts of the Dalai Lama, which is accompanied by comments from the translator and collaborator of the Dalai Lama, Sofia Stril-Rever. Initially, the book was published in French, and in 2010 it became available translated and published in English and Russian. The title ""My spiritual autobiography"" may be a little misleading, for"
"from author Joyce Carol Oates, who called it ""the definitive biography"". ""H.P. Lovecraft: A Life"" was awarded the 1997 Bram Stoker Award for Best Non-Fiction from the Horror Writers Association. H. P. Lovecraft: A Life H. P. Lovecraft: A Life is a biography of H. P. Lovecraft (1890–1937) by S. T. Joshi, first published by Necronomicon Press in 1996. The original one-volume edition was reissued in 2004, with a new afterword by Joshi. A new revised/uncut edition (as ""I Am Providence: The Life and Times of H.P. Lovecraft"") (2 vols) has been issued in 2010 (Hippocampus Press); this restores 150,000"
"streams. Jack Hemingway assisted his father's fourth wife and widow, Mary Welsh Hemingway, with final editing before publication of ""A Moveable Feast"" (1964), his father's memoir of life in 1920s Paris, which was published three years after Ernest Hemingway's death. Jack Hemingway also published an autobiography, ""Misadventures of a Fly Fisherman: My Life With and Without Papa"", in 1986. A second autobiographical work, ""A Life Worth Living: The Adventures of a Passionate Sportsman"", was released posthumously in 2002. Jack Hemingway died on December 1, 2000, at age 77, from complications following heart surgery, in New York City. He had previously"
"many major events of the 20th century, was released on January 13, 2015. Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter (novel) Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter is a biographical action horror mash-up novel by Seth Grahame-Smith, released on March 2, 2010, through New York–based publishing company Grand Central Publishing. The journal-style book is written as a partial ""secret"" diary of Abraham Lincoln, kept by the 16th President of the United States and given to the author by a vampire named Henry Sturges. Years later, the manuscript is found in a five-and-dime store in the town of Rhinebeck, New York (a reference to Smith's wife's"
"artistic life of the time. Mémoires (Berlioz) The Mémoires de Hector Berlioz are an autobiography by French composer Hector Berlioz. First serialised in several contemporary journals including ""Journal des Débats"" and ""Le Monde Illustré"", their compilation into one book was completed on New Year's Day, 1865 and after much proof-reading, an initial printing of 1200 was carried out in July. After distributing some copies to certain friends, they were put aside until Berlioz died. After Berlioz's death in 1869, they were published in 1870. They provide an extremely colourful, if biased, account of Berlioz's life, and are invaluable to anyone"
"Decision Points Decision Points is a memoir by former U.S. President George W. Bush. It was released on November 9, 2010, and the release was accompanied by national television appearances and a national tour. The book surpassed sales of two million copies less than two months after its release, breaking the record previously held by former President Bill Clinton's memoir ""My Life"". ""Decision Points"" also opened at #1 on the ""New York Times"" bestseller list. Bush's 481-page memoir is broken up into 14 chapters. The first two chapters are about his life before the presidency. The first chapter is about"
"The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is the traditional name for the unfinished record of his own life written by Benjamin Franklin from 1771 to 1790; however, Franklin himself appears to have called the work his ""Memoirs"". Although it had a tortuous publication history after Franklin's death, this work has become one of the most famous and influential examples of an autobiography ever written. Franklin's account of his life is divided into four parts, reflecting the different periods at which he wrote them. There are actual breaks in the narrative between the first three parts, but"
"did not have any children from either marriage and died of natural causes on January 1, 1998, aged 92, in Carmel, California. Wills wrote a coaching manual, ""Tennis"" (1928), her autobiography, ""Fifteen-Thirty: The Story of a Tennis Player"" (1937), and a mystery, ""Death Serves an Ace"" (1939, with Robert Murphy). She also wrote articles for ""The Saturday Evening Post"" and other magazines. Senator James D. Phelan befriended Wills and invited her as a frequent guest to his estate, Villa Montalvo. Wills wrote poetry as a hobby, and presented two of her works, ""The Awakening"" and ""The Narrow Street"", to a"