Category Archives: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs

Audiobook: Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist

In 1892, anarchist and Russian émigré Alexander Berkman was apprehended for the failed assassination of

Audiobook: Travels and adventures of an orchid hunter: An account of canoe and camp life in Colombia, while collecting orchids in the northern Andes

This is quite the adventure tale and travelog. We see cities, peoples, plants and wildlife

Audiobook: Memoir of Washington Irving

Arguably one of America’s greatest writers, Washington Irving is the author of such classics as

Audiobook: Memoirs of Chateaubriand 1768 to 1800

This is the first volume of Chateaubriand’s Memoires d’Outre Tombe, in a Victorian translation. It

Audiobook: Up From Slavery: An Autobiography (version 2)

Up from Slavery is the 1901 autobiography of Booker T. Washington sharing his personal experience

Audiobook: Captivity of Nearly Three Years Among the Savages of Nootka Sound

John Jewitt (1783-1821), a blacksmith by trade, spent the years 1803-1806 as a slave among

Audiobook: From Slave Cabin To Pulpit and Sketches Of Slave Life

Peter Randolph was born a slave in 1825 (?), was freed before the American Civil

Audiobook: Memoirs of Chateaubriand Volume II

Volume II of Chateaubriand’s Memoirs from Beyond the Tomb, translated by Teixeira de Mattos. This

Audiobook: Memoirs of Chateaubriand Volume III

The third volume of Teixeira de Mattos’ translation of Chateaubriand’s Memoirs from Beyond the Tomb

Audiobook: Memoirs of Madame Vigée Lebrun

This memoirs chronicles Madame Vigée Lebrun’s childhood and the early discovery of her talent, the

Audiobook: Memoirs of Chateaubriand Volume V

The memoirs of Chateaubriand continue in Volume 5, with the author, now a grand hommes

Audiobook: Memories of Old Montana

Con Price recalls the 1870s through the 1940s, growing up in Iowa and South Dakota

Audiobook: Summer on the Lakes, in 1843

Margaret Fuller, the American early proponent for Women’s rights, writes of her visits to the

Audiobook: Life of John Ruskin

W. G. Collingwood became a student of John Ruskin in 1872 when he started his

Audiobook: Wheel Within A Wheel

Frances Willard was an influential campaigner and educator for social reforms, temperance and women’s education,

Audiobook: Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom

Ellen and William Craft were a married couple who escaped from slavery in 1848 when

Audiobook: On Being Negro in America

A penetrating, insightful, and thoroughly honest view of one’s life in the United States as

Audiobook: Chateau and Country Life in France

Mary King Waddington was the American daughter of Charles King, ninth president of Columbia University,

Audiobook: Joseph Conrad: A Personal Remembrance

Joseph Conrad (1857 – 1924) was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest

Audiobook: Winter of Content

A charming memoir recounting 10 months spent among the country people of Ontario at the

Audiobook: Oscar Wilde and Myself

The first memoir by the poet Lord Alfred “Bosie” Douglas was written 14 years after

Audiobook: Diary of Samuel Pepys 1663

Another jam-packed year for Pepys, making provisions for Tangier, indulging his passion for the theatre,

Audiobook: All in the Day’s Work

In this autobiography, written when the author was 82 years old, Ida Tarbell looks back

Audiobook: Diary of Samuel Pepys 1664

Pepys continues to live life to the hilt, juggling extra-marital shenanigans with a complicated homelife,

Audiobook: Gentle Persuasion

Twelve stories from the author’s life in Scotland, by Robert Cuthbert Johnstone, writing as Alan

Audiobook: Across the Plains in 1844

The Sager family, including seven children, set out on the Oregon trail in 1844. Accidents

Audiobook: Over Prairie Trails

When Frederick Philip Grove settled in a remote area of Manitoba in the early years

Audiobook: Days with Walt Whitman

“Days with Walt Whitman” is a contemplative summary of the life of Walt Whitman and

Audiobook: Arthur Conan Doyle’s Memories and Adventures

Arthur Conan Doyle first published his memories of his many various adventures around the world

Audiobook: Soldier’s Diary

This 1923 memoir of a World War I soldier (Royal Engineer and hand-to-hand combatant) is