Mark Twain

Mark Twain

male, deceased (1910)
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Freemasonry, From st. louis, missouri, Autobiographer, San Francisco
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American humorist, satirist, writer, and lecturer. Twain is most noted...
Gertrude Stein

Gertrude Stein

female, deceased (1946)
buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery, Radcliffe College alumni, LGBT, Stomach cancer death, Jewish person, American…Autobiographer
Gertrude Stein (February 3, 1874 - July 27, 1946) was an American writer and is considered to have acted as a catalyst in the development of modern...
Malcolm X

Malcolm X

male, deceased (1965)
Human Rights, conservative, death by firearm in the United States, buried at Ferncliff Cemetery and Mausoleum, religious fanaticism, supreme court
Malcolm X (born Malcolm Little; May 19, 1925 - February 21, 1965), also known as El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, was an American Black Muslim minister...
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

male, deceased (1778)
French, philosopher, Autobiographer, Roman Catholic, Alternative education, philosophes
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, (June 28, 1712 - July 2, 1778) was a Genevan philosopher of the Enlightenment whose political ideas influenced the French...
Margery Kempe

Margery Kempe

female, 639 years old
Anglican, Women of medieval England, From King's Lynn, English women writer, Women writer, Hermit…Autobiographer
Margery Kempe is known for writing "The Book of Margery Kempe", a work considered by some to be the first autobiography in the English language....
Mahatma Gandhi

Mahatma Gandhi

male, deceased (1948)
Indian, civil disobedience, non-violence, Indian independence movement, activist, death by firearm
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. In India, he is recognized as the "Father of the Nation" and October 2nd, his birthday, is commemorated each year as...
Frank McCourt

Frank McCourt

male, 79 years old
American, author, limerick, A Couple of Blaguards, teacher, memoir…Autobiographer
Frank McCourt was one of those teachers who fell into the job whilst secretly wishing he could do something else (in his case, a writer - an...
Alice B. Toklas

Alice B. Toklas

female, deceased (1967)
buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery, convert to Christianity, Autobiographer, lesbian, American, Jewish American
Alice B. Toklas was the life partner of writer Gertrude Stein.
Arthur Conan Doyle

Arthur Conan Doyle

male, deceased (1930)
memoirist, death by myocardial infarction, Pre-1914 Association Football player, Legion of Frontiersmen member, Scottish historical novelist, British writer…Autobiographer
Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, DL (22 May, 1859 - 7 July, 1930) was a Scottish born author most noted for his stories about the detective...
Jim Carroll

Jim Carroll

male, 59 years old
Bisexual writer, Roman Catholic, Irish-American, Drug culture, autobiography, from the United States…Autobiographer
Jim Carroll (born August 1, 1950 in New York City) is an author, poet, autobiographer, and punk musician. Carroll is best known for his 1978...