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Is there a list of question I can find to help me start writing my autobiography.?

Who are you?
Why are you?
Where are you?
What are you?
What will you be?
What will your obituary read?

Abbey Road (Deluxe Crate edition with T-Shirt) $75.95 Deluxe crate edition features the remastered Abbey Road CD and t-shirt, all together in a white crate! Amazon.com Review The Beatles’ last days as a band were as productive as any major pop phenomenon that was about to split. After recording the ragged-but-right Let It Be, the group held on for this ambitious effort, an album that was to become their best-selling. Though all four contribute to the…

Gandhi [VHS] $34.99 Mohandas K. Gandhi was a man of peace who spent most of his life preaching nonviolence to gain equality and freedom for the people of India. This informative program explores his struggle against the mighty British Empire and her colonies of India and South America. Gandhi’s words and deeds made him one of the most influential men of the 20th century….

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NBC News Presents Yes We Can! The Barack Obama story $4.80 Brian Williams hosts this involving documentary that examines the life and political career of Barack Obama. Presenting a definitive look at the long and winding road that took him to the White House, the program also features fascinating insight into how Obama rallied voters and made history during his groundbreaking presidential run. 66 min. Standard; Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital stereo; bo…

Pulp $0.89 Michael Caine shines as a hack thriller novelist in this twist-filled mystery laced with satire that reteamed him with “Get Carter” director Mike Hodges. Hired to ghostwrite a gangster film star’s autobiography, Caine begins to suspect that the actor’s Mafia contacts are real, as he becomes involved in an offbeat murder investigation that may wind up getting him turned into pulp. Mickey Rooney, Li…

Hippie Boy: A Girl’s Story $2.99 What would you do if your Mormon stepfather pinned you down and tried to cast Satan out of you? For thirteen-year-old Ingrid, the answer is simple: RUN.Ingrid Ricks grew up in a dysfunctional Mormon family with an absent, freewheeling dad and an intensely religious mother who was desperate to ensure her family’s eternal salvation. For years she yearned to escape the suffocating religion and povert…

CHRISTINA ROSSETTI: Learning Not to Be First $4.50 This biography is a fresh and illuminating study of Christina Rossetti and her poetry. Kathleen Jones looks at her life alongside that of other nineteenth-century women writers – notably Emily Bronte, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Emily Dickinson. Christina was the youngest of the four Rossetti children, born in England to Italian parents. Although she and her brother, the artist Dante Gabriel, w…

Imperfect: An Improbable Life $13.45 On an overcast September day in 1993, Jim Abbott took the mound at Yankee Stadium and threw one of the most dramatic no-hitters in major-league history. The game was the crowning achievement in an unlikely success story, unseen in the annals of professional sports. In Imperfect, the one-time big league ace retraces his remarkable journey.   Born without a right hand, Jim Abbott as a boy dreamed o…

Autobiography $22.95 An indispensable introduction to the study of autobiography and a historical overview of autobiographical writing from St Augustine to the present day.

Reading Autobiography $58.5 With the memoir boom, life storytelling has become ubiquitous and emerged as a distinct field of study. Reading Autobiography , originally published in 2001, was the first comprehensive critical introduction to life writing in all its forms. Widely adopted for undergraduate and graduate-level courses, it is an essential guide for students and scholars reading and interpreting autobiographical texts and methods across the humanities, social sciences, and visual and performing arts. Thoroughly updated, the second edition of Reading Autobiography is the most complete assessment of life narrative in its myriad forms. It lays out a sophisticated, theoretical approach to life writing and the components of autobiographical acts, including memory, experience, identity, embodiment, space, and agency. Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson explore these components, review the history of life writing and the foundations of autobiographical subjectivity, and provide a toolkit for working with twenty-three key concepts. Their survey of innovative forms of life writing, such as autographics and installation self-portraiture, charts recent shifts in autobiographical practice. Especially useful for courses are the appendices: a glossary covering dozens of distinct genres of life writing, proposals for group and classroom projects, and an extensive bibliography.

Tudor Autobiography $36 Histories of autobiography in England often assume the genre hardly existed before 1600. But Tudor Autobiography investigates eleven sixteenth-century English writers who used sermons, a saint’s biography, courtly and popular verse, a traveler’s report, a history book, a husbandry book, and a supposedly fictional adventure novel to share the secrets of the heart and tell their life stories.             In the past such texts have not been called autobiographies because they do not reveal much of the inwardness of their subject, a requisite of most modern autobiographies.  But, according to Meredith Anne Skura, writers reveal themselves not only by what they say but by how they say it. Borrowing methods from affective linguistics, narratology, and psychoanalysis, Skura shows that a writer’s thoughts and feelings can be traced in his or her language. Rejecting the search for “ the early modern self” in life writing, Tudor Autobiography instead asks what authors said about themselves, who wrote about themselves, how, and why. The result is a fascinating glimpse into a range of lived and imagined experience that challenges assumptions about life and autobiography in the early modern period.