Dreams from My Father - wikipedia Dreams from My Father Dreams from My Father Author Barack Obama Country United States Language English Genre Memoir Publisher Times Books ( 1995 ) Three Rivers Press ( 2004 ) Publication date July 18, 1995 August 10, 2004 Media type Book Pages 403 ( 1995 ) 442 ( 2004 ) ISBN 1 - 4000 - 8277 - 3 OCLC 55534889 Dewey Decimal 973 /. 0405967625009 / 0092 B 22 LC Class E185. 97. O23 A3 2004 Followed by The Audacity of Hope This article is part of a series about Barack Obama Political positions Electoral history Early life and career Family Public image Illinois State Senator U.S. Senator from Illinois 44th President of the United States Presidency Timeline Policies Economy Energy Foreign policy Obama Doctrine Foreign trips Pardons Social Space Appointments Cabinet Judges First term Campaign for the Presidency 2008 general election Primaries Transition 1st inauguration First 100 days Affordable Care Act Iraq Withdrawal Death of Osama bin Laden Timeline : ' 09 ' 10 ' 11 ' 12 Second term Reelection campaign 2012 general election Reactions 2nd inauguration Immigration executive action Iran deal Cuban thaw Timeline : ' 13 ' 14 ' 15 ' 16 ' 17 Post-presidency Planned Library One America Appeal Dreams from My Father The Audacity of Hope Nobel Peace Prize Dreams from My Father : A Story of Race and Inheritance ( 1995 ) is a memoir by Barack Obama, who was elected as U.S. President in 2008. It explores events of his early years, up until his entry into law school in 1988. Obama published the memoir in July 1995, when he was starting his political campaign for Illinois Senate. He had been elected as the first African - American president of the Harvard Law Review in 1990. According to The New York Times, Obama modeled Dreams from My Father on Ralph Ellison 's novel Invisible Man. After Obama won the U.S. Senate Democratic primary victory in Illinois in 2004, the book was re-published that year. He gave the keynote address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention ( DNC ) and won the Illinois Senate seat in the fall. Obama launched his presidential campaign three years later. The 2004 edition includes a new preface by Obama and his DNC keynote address. Contents 1 Narrative 2 Book cover 3 Persons in the book 4 Reception 4.1 Time Magazine Top 100 List 5 Versions 6 References 7 External links Narrative Further information : Early life and career of Barack Obama Obama recounts his life up to his enrollment in Harvard Law School. He was born in 1961 in Honolulu, Hawaii, to Barack Obama, Sr., of Kenya, and Ann Dunham of Wichita, Kansas, who had met as students at the University of Hawaii. Obama 's parents separated in 1963 and divorced in 1964, when he was two years old. Obama 's father went to Harvard to pursue his Ph. D. in Economics. After that, he returned to Kenya to fulfill his promise to his nation. Obama formed an image of his absent father from stories told by his mother and her parents. He saw his father one more time, in 1971, when Obama Sr. came to Hawaii for a month 's visit. The elder Obama, who had remarried, died in a car accident in Kenya in 1982. After her divorce, Ann Dunham married Lolo Soetoro, a Javanese surveyor from Indonesia who was a graduate student in Hawaii. The family moved to Jakarta. When Obama was ten, he returned to Hawaii under the care of his maternal grandparents ( and later his mother ) for the better educational opportunities available there. He was enrolled in the fifth grade at Punahou School, a private college - preparatory school, where he was one of six black students. Obama attended Punahou School from the 5th grade until his graduation from the 12th grade, in 1979. Obama writes : `` For my grandparents, my admission into Punahou Academy heralded the start of something grand, an elevation in the family status that they took great pains to let everyone know. '' There, he met Ray ( Keith Kakugawa ), who was two years older and also multi-racial. He introduced Obama to the African - American community. Upon finishing high school, Obama moved to Los Angeles for studies at Occidental College. He describes having lived a `` party '' lifestyle of drug and alcohol use. After two years at Occidental, he transferred to Columbia College at Columbia University, in New York City, where he majored in Political Science. Upon graduation, Obama worked for a year in business. He moved to Chicago, where he worked for a non-profit as a community organizer in the Altgeld Gardens housing project on the city 's mostly black South Side. Obama recounts the difficulty of the experience, as his program faced resistance from entrenched community leaders and apathy on the part of the established bureaucracy. During this period, Obama first visited Chicago 's Trinity United Church of Christ, which became the center of his spiritual life. Before attending Harvard Law School, Obama decided to visit relatives in Kenya. He recounts part of this experience in the final, emotional third of the book. Obama used his memoir to reflect on his personal experiences with race and race relations in the United States. Book cover Pictured in left - hand photograph on cover : Habiba Akumu Hussein and Barack Obama, Sr. ( Obama 's paternal grandmother and his father as a young boy, respectively ). Pictured in right - hand photograph on cover : Stanley Dunham and Ann Dunham ( Obama 's maternal grandfather and his mother as a young girl ). Persons in the book With the exception of family members and a handful of public figures, Barack Obama says in the 2004 preface that he had changed names of others to protect their privacy. He also created composite characters to expedite the narrative flow. Some of his acquaintances have recognized themselves and acknowledged their names. Various researchers have suggested the names of other figures in the book : Actual name Referred to in the book as Salim Al Nurridin Rafiq Margaret Bagby Mona Hasan Chandoo Hasan Earl Chew Marcus Frank Marshall Davis Frank Joella Edwards Coretta Pal Eldredge Mr. Eldredge Mabel Hefty Miss Hefty Loretta Augustine Herron Angela Emil Jones Old Ward Boss Keith Kakugawa Ray Jerry Kellman Marty Kaufman Yvonne Lloyd Shirley Ronald Loui / Terrence Loui ( composite ) Frederick Greg Orme Scott Johnnie Owens Johnnie Mike Ramos Jeff Sohale Siddiqi Sadik Wally Whaley Smitty Reception In discussing Dreams from My Father, Toni Morrison, a Nobel Laureate novelist, has called Obama `` a writer in my high esteem '' and the book `` quite extraordinary. '' She praised `` his ability to reflect on this extraordinary mesh of experiences that he has had, some familiar and some not, and to really meditate on that the way he does, and to set up scenes in narrative structure, dialogue, conversation -- all of these things that you do n't often see, obviously, in the routine political memoir biography... It 's unique. It 's his. There are no other ones like that. '' In an interview for The Daily Beast, the author Philip Roth said he had read Dreams from My Father `` with great interests, '' and commented that he had found it `` well done and very persuasive and memorable. '' The book `` may be the best - written memoir ever produced by an American politician, '' wrote Time columnist Joe Klein. In 2008, The Guardian 's Rob Woodard wrote that Dreams from My Father `` is easily the most honest, daring, and ambitious volume put out by a major US politician in the last 50 years. '' Michiko Kakutani, the Pulitzer Prize - winning critic for The New York Times, described it as `` the most evocative, lyrical and candid autobiography written by a future president. '' The audiobook edition earned Obama the Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album in 2006. Five days before being sworn in as President in 2009, Obama secured a $500,000 advance for an abridged version of Dreams from My Father for middle - school - aged children. Time Magazine top 100 list In 2011, Time Magazine listed the book on its top 100 non-fiction books written in English since 1923. Versions New York : Times Books ; 1st edition ( July 18, 1995 ) ; Hardcover : 403 pages ; ISBN 0 - 8129 - 2343 - X This printing is very rare. Only a few signed copies are known, and are estimated to be worth up to $13,000 ( depending on condition ). New York : Kodansha International ( August 1996 ) ; Paperback : 403 pages ; ISBN 1 - 56836 - 162 - 9 New York : Three Rivers Press ; Reprint edition ( August 10, 2004 ) ; Paperback : 480 pages ; ISBN 1 - 4000 - 8277 - 3 New York : Random House Audio ; Abridged edition ( May 3, 2005 ) ; Audio CD ; ISBN 0 - 7393 - 2100 - 5 ; Includes the senator 's speech from the 2004 Democratic National Convention. New York : Random House Audio ; Abridged edition on Playaway digital audio player New York : Random House Large Print ; 1st Large print edition ( April 4, 2006 ) ; Hardcover : 720 pages ; ISBN 0 - 7393 - 2576 - 0 New York : Crown Publishers ( January 9, 2007 ) ; Hardcover : 464 pages ; ISBN 0 - 307 - 38341 - 5 New York : Random House ( January 9, 2007 ) ; eBook ; ISBN 0 - 307 - 39412 - 3 Melbourne : Text Publishing ( 2008 ) ; Paperback : 442 pages ; ISBN 978 - 1 - 921351 - 43 - 3 Translations Arabic : Aḥlām min abī : qiṣṣat ʻirq wa - irth, translated by Hibah Najīb al - Sayyid Maghrabī ; Īmān ʻAbd al - Ghanī Najm ; Majdī ʻAbd al - Wāḥid ʻInabah, ( 2009 ), OCLC 460600393 Bosnian : Snovi moga oca : priča o rasi i naslijeđu, Sarajevo : Buybook ( 2008 ), OCLC 488621036 Chinese : 歐 巴 馬 的 夢想 之 路 : 以 父 之 名 ( pinyin : Ōu bā mǎ de mèngxiǎng zhī lù : Yǐ fǔ zhī míng ; literally : `` Obama 's road of dreams : from his father '' ), translated by Yao - Hui Wang ( Chinese : 王輝耀 ) and Kuan - Lan Shih ( Chinese : 石冠蘭 ). China Times Publishing Company ( zh ; zh - yue ), Taipei, Taiwan, ( 2008 ), ISBN 978 - 957 - 13 - 4926 - 8 Croatian : Snovi mojega oca : priča o rasi i naslijeđu, ( 2004 ), ISBN 978 - 953 - 182 - 079 - 0 Czech : Cesta za sny mého otce : jedna z nejpůsobivějších autobiografických knih o sebepoznání a hledání vlastní identity, translated by Marie Čermáková, Praha : Štrob, Širc & Slovák, ( 2009 ), ISBN 978 - 80 - 903947 - 6 - 6 Danish : Arven fra min far : selvbiografi, Gyldendals Bogklubber, ( 2009 ), OCLC 488375191 Dutch : Dromen van mijn vader, translated by Joost Zwart, Atlas, ( 2007 ), ISBN 978 - 90 - 450 - 0089 - 3 Finnish : Unelmia isältäni : kertomus rodusta ja sukuperinnöstä, translated by Seppo Raudaskoski and Mika Tiirinen, ( 2009 ), ISBN 978 - 951 - 692 - 723 - 0 French : Les rêves de mon père, translated by Paris Presses de La Cité, Paris, France, ( 2008 ), ISBN 978 - 2 - 258 - 07597 - 9 German : Ein amerikanischer Traum, Carl Hanser Verlag ( 2008 ), ISBN 978 - 3 - 446 - 23021 - 7 Greek, Modern : Eikones tou patera mou : he historia henos genous kai mias klēronomias, ( 2004 ), ISBN 978 - 960 - 6689 - 41 - 3 Hebrew : חלומות מאבי ( Ḥalomot me - avi ), translated by Edna Shemesh, Tel Aviv, Israel, ( 2008 ), OCLC 256955212 Hindi : Pitā se mile sapane, translated by Aśoka Kumāra, Aravinda Kumāra Pabliśarsa, Guṛagām̐va, ( 2009 ), ISBN 978 - 81 - 8452 - 017 - 0 Indonesian : Dreams from My father : pergulatan hidup Obama, ( 2009 ), ISBN 978 - 979 - 433 - 544 - 4 Japanese : My Dream : An autobiography of Barack Obama ( マイ ・ ドリーム : バラク ・ オバマ 自伝 ), translated by Yuya Kiuchi, Mikiko Shirakura, ( 2007 ) ISBN 978 - 4 - 478 - 00362 - 6 Korean : Nae abŏji robutŏ ŭi kkum ( 내 아버지 로부터 의 꿈 ), translated by Kyŏng - sik Yi, Random House Korea, Seoul, Korea, ( 2007 ), ISBN 978 - 89 - 255 - 1014 - 9 Marathi : Ḍrīmsa phrôma māya phādara, translated by Yamājī Mālakara and Nītā Kulakarṇī, Ameya Prakāśana, ( 2009 ), OCLC 515543205 Persian : Ruyāhā - ye pedaram, translated by Rītū Baḥrī, ( 2009 ), ISBN 978 - 964 - 174 - 082 - 7 Persian : Ruyāhā - ye pidaram, translated by Manīzhih Shaykh Javādī, ( 2009 ), ISBN 978 - 600 - 5253 - 09 - 2 Polish : Odziedziczone marzenia, translated by Piotr Szymczak, ( 2008 ), ISBN 978 - 83 - 7278 - 333 - 2 Portuguese : A Minha Herança, translated by Artur Lopes Cardoso, Cruz Quebrada, ( 2008 ), ISBN 978 - 972 - 46 - 1830 - 2 Portuguese : A Origem dos Meus Sonhos, translated by Irati Antonio, Renata Laureano & Sonia Augusto, ( 2008 ), ISBN 9788573125948 Serbian : Snovi moga oca : priča o rasi i nasleđu, translated by Vesna Džuverović ; Jasna Simonović, ( 2008 ), ISBN 978 - 86 - 505 - 1029 - 2 Spanish : Los sueños de mi padre : una historia de raza y herencia, Vintage Español, New York City, New York, ( 2009 ), ISBN 978 - 0 - 307 - 47387 - 5 Spanish : Los sueños de mi padre : una historia de raza y herencia, translated by Fernando Miranda ; Evaristo Páez Rasmussen, Granada : Almed, ( 2008 ), ISBN 978 - 84 - 936685 - 0 - 1 Swedish : Min far hade en dröm, Albert Bonniers förlag ( 2008 ), ISBN 978 - 91 - 0 - 011728 - 3 Thai : Bārak ʻŌbāmā : phom likhit chiwit ʻēng, translated by Nopphadon Wētsawat, Krung Thēp : Samnakphim Matichon, ( 2008 ), ISBN 978 - 974 - 02 - 0139 - 7 Turkish : Babamdan hayaller : ( ırk ve kimlik mirasının öyküsü ), İstanbul : Pegasus Yayınlar ( 2008 ), ISBN 978 - 605 - 5943 - 32 - 5 Urdu : Obāmā kī āp bītī, translated by Yāsar Javvād, ( 2009 ), OCLC 421024762 Vietnamese : Những giấc mơ từ cha tôi, translated by Quang Nguyễn, ( 2008 ), OCLC 317713059 References Jump up ^ Knapp, Kevin ( July 5, 1995 ). `` Alice Palmer to run for Reynolds ' seat ''. 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Question: when did obama write dreams from my father
Answer: 1995