Classic American Autobiographies

This classic collection of American autobiographies brings together five frequently-taught texts that offer the widest variety of the American experience: A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson; The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin; Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass; Four Autobiographical Narratives by Gertrude Bonnin; and Mark Twain's Old Times on the Mississippi. Original.

Includes: A True History of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Old Times on the Mississippi by Mark Twain, and Four Autobiographical Narratives of Zitkala-Sa.

William L. Andrews is E. Maynard Adams Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of To Tell a Free Story and editor or coeditor of more than thirty books on African American literature.