Autography & Biography is a goldmine of famous historical figures: authors, founding fathers, explorers, philosophers, saints, heroes of science and captains of industry.

The Lives of the Twelve Caesars by Suetonius is an account of the 12 great rulers from Julius to Domition. The Confessions of St. Augustine follows the early sinful life and later conversion of the saint. From the Middle Ages and Renaissance, we have Malory's famous Le Morte D'Arthur, about the legendary King Arthur. Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Painters and Cellini's autobiography are central to art history.

From England we feature The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Johnson's Lives of the Poets, and the Autobiography of Anthony Trollope. Benjamin Franklin's is considered the first real American autobiography. Up From Slavery details Booker T. Washington's difficult early life. The Education of Henry Adams won the Pulitzer Prize in 1918. Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Confessions is famous for its intimate and scandalous revelations.