From My life and hard times / James Thurber from An autobiography / Agatha Christie from Growing up / Russell Baker from The moon's a balloon / David Niven from An autobiography / Benjamin Franklin from My young years / Arthur Rubinstein from Memories of a Catholic girlhood / Mary McCarthy from Blackberry winter / Margaret Mead from Once upon a time / Gloria Vanderbilt from The diary of a young girl / Anne Frank from The eay to Rainy Mountain / N. Scott Momaday from Romantic education / Patricia Hampl from China men / Maxine Hong Kingston from Shock value / John Waters from One writer's beginnings / Eudora Welty from The autobiography of Henry Adams / Henry Adams from The making of a surgeon / William A. Nolen from Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman! / Richard P. Fenyman From Facing the big cats / Clyde Beatty from The letters of Mrs. Henry Adams / Marion "Clover" Adams from The story of my life / Helen Keller from The autobiography of Malcolm X / Malcolm X from The seven storey mountain / Thomas Merton from Hour of gold, hour of lead / Anne Morrow Lindbergh from Year of decision / Harry Truman from The autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt / Eleanor Roosevelt from The life of Frederick Douglass / Frederick Douglass from An unfinished woman, a memoir / Lillian Hellman from Knock on wood / Candice Bergen from A private view / Irene Mayer Selznick from Don't fall off the mountain / Shirley MacLaine from Walden / Henry David Thoreau from Journal of a solitude / May Sarton from One man's meat / E. B. White "What is happiness?" / John Ciardi from My life / Golda Meir from Man's search for meaning / Viktor Frankl from Aftermath / John Montgomery from Autobiography of an elderly woman / Mary Heaton Vorse "Reflections on my eightieth birthday" / Bertrand Russell
