num_pages: 314
description: Mallon has assembled a guide to the great diaries of literature -- from Samuel Pepys to Anais Nin. Mallon has written a new introduction for this edition which comments on the political consequences of keeping a journal, as in the former controversy involving Sen. Bob Packwood. A diarist himself, Mallon places journal writers in history, fleshing them out with both background and witty anecdote.
language: English
title: A Book of One's Own: People and Their Diaries
titlecomplete: A Book of One's Own: People and Their Diaries
genres: Biography, Diary, Journaling, History, Autobiography, Writing, Nonfiction, Literature, Books About Books, Memoir
ratings_count: 240
publisher: Ruminator Books