Autobiography is a subset of literary nonfiction. Literary nonfiction encompasses a broader category of nonfiction works that includes essays, biographies, and literary journalism, whereas autobiography specifically refers to an individual's account of their own life.
Autobiography
It is the first Western autobiography
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It is the first Western autobiography
Literary nonfiction includes vivid descriptions.
William C. Spengemann has written: 'The forms of autobiography' -- subject(s): Autobiography, Literary form 'Mark Twain and the backwoods angel' 'A new world of words' -- subject(s): American literature, Canon (Literature), Criticism and interpretation, History and criticism, In literature, Intellectual life, Theory
Merrill Maguire Skaggs has written: 'Notes on Franklin's \\' 'Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin' -- subject(s): Accessible book, OverDrive, Literary Criticism, Nonfiction 'Willa Cather's New York'
Using literary elements explain in what two ways Benjamin Franklin's autobiography and the interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa the African are similar
Literary nonfiction uses story-telling techniques from fiction writing.
Cory MacLauchlin has written: 'Butterfly in the typewriter' -- subject(s): American Novelists, Biography, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary
Rainer H. Goetz has written: 'Spanish Golden Age autobiography in its context' -- subject(s): Autobiography, Biography as a literary form, History and criticism, Self in literature, Spanish Autobiographical fiction, Spanish prose literature
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