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Many people are nameless to history yet their life stories are worth exploring.
These will be found in the appropriate sections of Collections, rather than in Individual Lives where they might get lost. Autobiography of the site creator Born in New York but raised in Southern California, I now browse the Web in a beach town in Orange County. I hold a degree from the University of California in Comparative Literature with an emphasis in Critical Theory and a minor in French. Biography has always been my favorite reading and hundreds of biographies and autobiographies line my shelves. Guestbook Thank you for visiting my site.