These famous people wrote about their own lives. You can find their autobiographies by using their own name as an author:
Aaron, Hank
Adams, Henry
Angelou, Maya
Armstrong, Karen
Baker, Russell
Bergen, Candice
Braden, Tom
Buchan, John
Carson, Kit
Carter, Rosalynn
Carter, Jimmy
Cheever, John
Christie, Agatha
Cleary, Beverly
Cody, Will F. (Wild Bill)
Conrad, Joseph
Conway, Jill K.
Douglass, Frederick,
Ford, Betty
Frank, Anne
Franklin, Benjamin
Hemingway, Ernest
Hepburn, Katherine
Huston, John
Jackson, Jesse
John, James Weldon
Keller, Helen
Landry, Tom
Leonard, Hugh
Lynn, Loretta
McNeil, Robert
Mathabane, Mark
Mays, Willie
Mead, Margaret
Mehta, Ved
Mingus, Charles
Moody, Anne
Nabokov, Vladimir
O'Casey, Sean
Oliphant, Margaret
Parks, Gordon
Poitier, Sidney
Rivera, Edward
Roth, Philip
Rousseau, Jean Jacques
Sakharov, Andrei
Saleno-Sonnenberg, Nadja
Sandburg, Carl
Sender, Ruth M.
Singer, Isaac Bashevis
St. Augustine
Sutcliff, Rosemary
Taylor, Lawrence
Von Trapp, Maria
Vonnegut, Kurt
Washington, Booker T.
Waters, Ethel
Watson James
Welty, Eudora
Wilkins, Roy
Wolff, Tobias
Wright Richard
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