Table Of Contents:
PREFACE 9(2)
INTRODUCTION 11(12)

MARY ROWLANDSON (CA. 1635-1711) FROM The True History of the Captivity and Deliverance of Mary Rowlandson 23(16)

JONATHAN EDWARDS (1703-1758) FROM The Life and Character of the Late Rev. Mr. Jonathan Edwards 39(13)

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (1706-1790) FROM The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin 52(11)

ELIZABETH ASHBRIDGE (1713-1755) FROM Some Account of the Fore-Part of the Life of Elizabeth Ashbridge 63(17)

BLACK HAWK (1767-1838) FROM An Autobiography 80(14)

HARRIET JACOBS (CA. 1813-1897) FROM Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl 94(6)

ELIZABETH CADY STANTON (1815-1902) FROM Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences, 1815-1897 100(10)

RICHARD HENRY DANA (1815-1882) FROM Two Years before the Mast 110(13)

HENRY DAVID THOREAU (1817-1862) FROM Walden 123(12)

FREDERICK DOUGLASS (1817-1895) FROM My Bondage and My Freedom 135(16)

WALT WHITMAN (1819-1892) FROM Specimen Days in America 151(14)

U. S. GRANT (1822-1885) FROM Memoirs 165(9)

ELIZABETH HOBBS KECKLEY (1824-1907) FROM Behind the Scenes; or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House 174(11)

LUCY LARCOM (1824-1893) FROM A New England Girlhood 185(12)

MARK TWAIN (1835-1910) FROM Life on the Mississippi 197(17)

MARY ANN WEBSTER LOUGHBOROUGH (1836-1887) FROM My Cave Life in Vicksburg 214(5)

HENRY ADAMS (1838-1918) FROM The Education of Henry Adams 219(9)

HENRY JAMES (1843-1916) FROM Notes of a Son and Brother 228(14)

BOOKER T. WASHINGTON (1856-1915) FROM Up from Slavery 242(11)

W.E.B. DU BOIS (1868-1963) FROM The Souls of Black Folk 253(9)

EMMA GOLDMAN (1869-1940) FROM Living My Life 262(16)

ALEXANDER BERKMAN (1870-1936) FROM Prison Memories of an Anarchist 278(11)

THEODORE DREISER (1871-1945) FROM A Hoosier Holiday 289(11)

GERTRUDE STEIN (1874-1946) FROM The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas 300(12)

HELEN KELLER (1880-1968) FROM The Story of My Life 312(11)

MARY ANTIN (1881-1949) FROM The Promised Land 323(10)

ZORA NEALE HURSTON (1891-1960) FROM Dust Tracks on a Road 333(10)

PASCAL D'ANGELO (1894- ) FROM Son of Italy 343(14)

F. SCOTT FITZGERALD (1896-1940) "The Crack-Up" 357(13)

MARY PAIK LEE (1900- ) FROM Quiet Odyssey 370(11)

RICHARD WRIGHT (1908-1960) FROM Black Boy 381(8)

EUDORA WELTY (1909- ) FROM One Writer's Beginnings 389(12)

WALLACE STEGNER (1909-1993) FROM Wolf Willow 401(6)

MARY McCARTHY (1912-1989) FROM Memories of a Catholic Girlhood 407(19)

THOMAS MERTON (1915-1968) FROM The Seven Storey Mountain 426(9)

ALFRED KAZIN (1915-1998) FROM A Walker in the City 435(6)

JAMES BALDWIN (1924-1987) FROM Notes of a Native Son 441(9)

GORE VIDAL (1925- ) FROM Palimpsest 450(16)

MALCOLM X (1925-1965) WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF ALEX HALEY (1921-1992) FROM The Autobiography of Malcolm X 466(14)

GAY TALESE (1932- ) FROM Unto the Sons 480(9)

HARRY CREWS (1935- ) FROM A Childhood: The Biography of a Place 489(6)

VIVIAN GORNICK (1935- ) FROM Fierce Attachments 495(6)

FRANK CONROY (1936- ) FROM Stop-Time 501(8)

JOYCE CAROL OATES (1938- ) "A Letter to My Mother Carolina Oates on Her 78th Birthday November 8, 1995" 509(10)

MAXINE HONG KINGSTON (1940- ) FROM The Woman Warrior 519(7)

SAMUEL F. PICKERING, JR. (1941- ) "Son and Father" 526(15)

ERICA JONG (1942- ) FROM Fear of Fifty 541(8)

JAMES ALAN McPHERSON (1943- ) FROM "Going Up to Atlanta" 549(19)

RICHARD RODRIGUEZ (1944- ) FROM Days of Obligation 568(18)

PAUL MONETTE (1945-1995) FROM Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir 586(7)

ANNIE DILLARD (1945- ) FROM An American Childhood 593(6)

SCOTT RUSSELL SANDERS (1945- ) "Buckeye" 599(6)

KATHLEEN NORRIS (1947- ) FROM The Cloister Walk 605(7)

JOHN ELDER (1947- ) FROM Reading the Mountains of Home 612(7)

JULIA ALVAREZ (1950- ) "Picky Eater" 619(8)

BELL HOOKS (1952- ) FROM Bone Black 627(5)

LUIS J. RODRIGUEZ (1954- ) FROM Always Running 632(18)

MARY KARR (1954- ) FROM The Liars' Club 650(7)

TERRY TEMPEST WILLIAMS (1955- ) FROM Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place 657(11)

HILTON ALS (1961- ) FROM The Women 668(7)

ALANE SALIERNO MASON (1964- ) "Respect" 675(12)

SHERMAN ALEXIE (1966- ) FROM First Indian on the Moon 687(5)

ELIZABETH WURTZEL (1967- ) "Parental Guidance Suggested" 692(17)
PERMISSIONS 709