Info storage autobiography recommendations Something of Myself by Rudyard Kipling DuncanHill talk My Life and Hard Times by James Thurber 128 pages in the Harper Perennial Modern Classics edition Persepolis and Persepolis 2 by Marjane Satrapi Sluzzelin talk Fredrick Douglass Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass an American Slave It was a delight good book Oh and I second Sluzzelin s recommendation for James Thurber above that s quite an entertaining read Antandrus talk Viktor Frankl s book Man s Search for Meaning while not a full autobiography is certainly autobiographical in nature and is somewhat less than 300 pages JackofOz talk That s a superb book in fact the autobiographical portion of it just the first half is only 94 pages in my edition Antandrus talk Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin Rmhermen talk Erwin Schr dinger s My View of the World Ox Bow Press 1983 ISBN 0918024307 is titled My Life My View of the World in the German original It is quite short and without chronological order Schr dinger uses brief and distanced reports on his life as points of departure into philosophical excursions Killing Time My Inventions The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla A Liar s Autobiography Sluzzelin talk Black Boy by Richard Wright Friedrich Nietzsche s Ecce Homo Primo Levi s The Periodic Table combined autobiography and science writing with a little fiction hugely critically adored and all in 224 pages Harry Crews s A Childhood is focused on his early life but under 200 pages Slightly more dubious The Autobiography of Alice B Toklas it s actually an autobiography of Gertrude Stein Maltelauridsbrigge talk Ak the Periodic Table was my first pick A Season in Hell by Rimbaud is taught enough On the Road an autobiographical novel at 320 pp is almost there Five years of waiting is journalled in Zen in the Art of Archery at 107 pp Julia Rossi talk My Early Life by Winston S Churchill an autobiography of his first 25 or so years and his most entertaining readable book In the U S A it was published as A Roving Commission AllanHainey talk