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Edited transcript of a lecture delivered on April 5, 2006, at 6:00 p.m., at the McNeil Center for Early American Studies.
This lecture was part of the Benjamin Franklin Tercentenary Lecture Series, made possible through the generosity of the John Templeton Foundation.
Tonight’s discussion will revolve around examining the Autobiography and the question of personal writing.
The first issue is the question of memoir as a way of analyzing, shaping, and communicating a coherent story from the materials of lived experience. I want to ask you whether theAutobiography of Benjamin Franklin is all that coherent of a story. Is it a coherent at all? If it is coherent, how? What is the story that you see it telling?
Rags to riches, you might say. Alright—except Franklin’s not all that ragged to begin with. He’s got a father who supports seventeen kids, finds apprenticeships—which are expensive—for all of them, or dow
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
1791 book bygd Benjamin Franklin
Cover of the first English edition of 1793. | |
| Author | Benjamin Franklin |
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| Original title | Mémoires dem la vie privée dem Benjamin Franklin |
| Language | American English |
| Genre | Autobiography |
| Publisher | Buisson, Paris (French edition) J. Parson's, London (First English reprint) |
Publication date | 1791 |
| Publication place | United States |
Published in English | 1793 |
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Printer and publisher, author and educator, scientist and inventor, statesman and philanthropist, Benjamin Franklin was the very embodiment of the American type of self-made man. In 1771, at the age of 65, he sat down to write his autobiography, "having emerged from the poverty and obscurity in which I was born and bred to a state of affluence and some degree of reputation in the world, and having gone so far through life with a considerable share of felicity." The result is a classic of American literature.
On the eve of the tercentenary of Franklin's birth, the university he founded has selected the Autobiography for the Penn Reading Project. Each year, for the past fifteen years, the University of Pennsylvania has chosen a single work that the entire incoming class, and a large segment of the faculty and staff, read and discuss together. For this occasion the University of Pennsylvania Press will publish a special edition of Franklin's