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Some people have trunks or boxes in their attics with letters and diaries from family members who went to war or lived unusual and interesting lives. They think they should make copies of the material for the family or even for the public now that e-publishing is so handy, but they aren't sure the material is interesting.
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I encourage you to do it. Start, today. We need memoirs and biographies.
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To discuss in comments: If you could find a trunk of papers whose would you most like to discover and share? (For me it would be Shakespeare).
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Some famous biographies and a few autobiographies: (I have read 16 of these and I am reading another one, now, and I got another one in the mail for later).
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Taylor Branch
Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-1963
Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years 1963-65
At Canaan’s Edge: America in the King Years 1965-68
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The one I read this time had been revised:
Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and The War Years by Carl Sandburg, ed. by Edward C. Goodman, The Illustrated Edition
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The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
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The Intimate Merton: His Life from His Journals ed. Patrick Hart & Jonathan Montaldo
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There are so many more great ones that you can mention in comments. Please share your favorites.
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Diaries of the Week:
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