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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is the most widely published autobiography of all time. In honor of Franklin’s 300th birthday, the Benjamin Franklin Tercentenary and One Book, One Philadelphia invited today’s Philadelphians to submit a memoir of their own, using no more than 300 words.  At the end of the project – May 17, 2006 – a panel of judges selected twenty autobiographies to appear on bus shelters throughout the city. 

These twenty autobiographers range in age from eleven to eighty-one, and include an incarcerated person, a bilingual 5th grader, and a former go-go dancer. They chose to share stories about everything from dealing with an alcoholic parent, to growing up on Howard Street in West Kensington, to celebrating the end of World War II with a contraband orange.  From June 26 through July 23, 2006 , these twenty autobiographies will be published along with the honorees’ photographs on bus shelter posters throughout Center City, Philadelphia. A map of the shelter locations is available for download here , and you can view all twenty posters here (scaled down to 8.5 by 11″.)  The stories were brought to life visually under the creative direction of Debra Stack and Stack Design, with photography by Michael Ahearn.

Throughout a six-week writing period that began on April 5, 2006, over three hundred people sent in stories from their lives, and you can read them all online here . Participants were offered writing support services at free drop-in writing centers at Drexel University and Free Library of Philadelphia branches; online, with interactive feedback; or by attending a writing workshop. Organizations and institutions with a group of potential participants were invited to request a free writing workshop at their institution. If reading about this project has inspired you to tell us your story, you can still find writing prompts and a revision checklist online here.

Finally, you can also find Franklin’s best-selling Autobiography here, with our analysis of what makes it relevant today.  In his Autobiography , Franklin spent several pages describing how he taught himself to write well, saying that, “Writing has been a great Use to me in the Course of my Life, and was a principal Means of my Advancement.”  We hope that by writing about your life you, like Franklin, will appreciate and enjoy the process of distilling and communicating something meaningful from your lived experience. After all, as Franklin warned us: “If you wou’d not be forgotten, As soon as you are dead and rotten, Either write things worth reading, Or do things worth the writing.”

The Benjamin Franklin Tercentenary is a non-profit organization established to mark the 300-year anniversary of Benjamin Franklin’s birth. One Book, One Philadelphia is a project of the Mayor's Office and the Free Library of Philadelphia.

The Autobiography Project is presented by the Benjamin Franklin Tercentenary and One Book, One Philadelphia , with the support of Drexel University and the Greater Philadelphia Wordshop Studio. 

The Autobiography Project is sponsored by The Philadelphia Inquirer , Daily News and Philly.com, and by SEPTA (the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority).

Questions?  Contact Nicola Twilley at 215.545.3870.  Media contact: Kim Rothwell, 215.790.7837. Design: Stack Design . Photography: Michael Ahearn. Web design: HiRES Graphics © 2006. All rights reserved. Home | Get Started | Get Help | Franklin's Autobiography | Your Autobiographies | Press | Ben Franklin 300

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The third edition of The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, with Related Documents continues to encourage students to think about the works lasting impact on American society and culture. Louis P. Masur’s introduction is designed to make Franklin accessible and inviting to students. An expanded Related Documents section provides a sample of Franklin’s voluminous writings. Two new documents reveal Franklin at his curious, inventive best, offering readers a glimpse of Franklin outside of the Autobiography. A new visual source pairing invites students to interpret Franklin’s changing image over time, through the works of two different artists. A chronology, questions for consideration, a bibliographic essay, and an index enrich students’ understanding of Franklin, eighteenth-century America, and the rags-to-riches ideal that has played, and continues to play, such a significant role in American history.

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• from Poor Richards Almanack
• Benjamin Franklin arrived in the city of Philadelphia in 1723 at the age of seventeen.
• He knew no one, and he had little money and fewer possessions.
• However, his accomplishments shaped the city in ways that are still visible today.
• He helped to establish Philadelphias public library and fire department.
• He helped to develop the citys first college.
• Through his efforts, Philadelphia became the first city in the colonies to have street lights.
• While Franklin was a brilliant man, some of his success can be attributed to sheer self-discipline which we will explore in this excerpt from his Autobiography.
• An autobiography is the story of a persons life.
• Autobiography was a new form of literature when Benjamin Franklin wrote The Autobiography.
• His work helped set the rules for this new type of writing.
• An Autobiography presents events in a persons life according to how that person sees them.
• An autobiography can give personal views of history. Information about the politics, habits, ideas, and values of a society can be found in autobiographies.
• Franklin tells his readers details about his life.
• He explains his goals and interests.
• You can draw conclusions about Franklin and his life.
• A conclusion is an opinion you reach by pulling together facts and details.
• Use this pattern for drawing conclusions about Franklins character while you read.
• Details Franklin changes his plan when he sees he is not meeting his goals.
• Personal Experience You also thought of a different way to meet a goal that was not being met.
• Conclusion Franklin makes adjustments to meet his goals.
• Benjamin Franklin writes his story using the pronoun I using the first person point of view.
• A first person point of view shows events from the narrators perspective.
• When a story is told from the first person point of view, two important things happen
• First, we share directly the narrators thoughts and feelings
• Second, we know only what the narrator knows.
• Making inferences is like being a detective.
• You use your own experiences and knowledge as well as evidence from the text to make inferences, or educated guesses, about what is happening.
• Franklin began The Autobiography when he was sixty-five.
• He continued working on it off and on until his death, at eighty-four, leaving it unfinished.
• Franklin is working on a plan to reach moral perfection.
• He will work on thirteen virtues or qualities.
• Franklin writes the virtues in a notebook to see how well he is doing.
• He makes a black mark beside a virtue every time he forgets to follow it.
• He works on a different virtue each week.
• Franklin thinks his plan is helpful but not completely successful.
• Franklin gives advice about how people should behave.
• He presents his thoughts in aphorisms, or short sayings with a message.
• Many of his aphorisms come from traditional folk sayings.
• Sayings such as Well done is better than well said tell something about Franklin and what he values.

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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin begins with an explanation, addressed to Franklin ’s son, William Franklin , concerning why Franklin has undertaken to write his life history. He says it may be useful to his posterity (offspring) but also he hopes to gratify his own vanity. He goes on to describe some of his relations, including his grandfather, Thomas Franklin Sr. , and his father, Josiah Franklin . Then Franklin begins the narrative of his life, how he was born in Boston in 1706, was briefly sent to grammar school around the age of eight, and eventually was apprenticed to his brother James Franklin as a printer.

From his earliest childhood, reading was very important to Franklin as a means of self-improvement. While working under his brother, he read frequently, adopted a vegetarian diet, and submitted several anonymous pieces of writing to his brother’s newspaper, the New England Courant . His brother published them, swelling Franklin’s pride, and, eventually, giving him the courage and ego to break his terms of service and run away, first to New York, then to Philadelphia.

Franklin found work almost immediately in Philadelphia as a journeyman printer, first for the printer Andrew Bradford , then for the printer Mr. Keimer . His brother-in-law, Robert Holmes convinced him to go back to Boston and ask his father’s blessing. He did, received it, and returned to Philadelphia with his friend John Collins , a drunk who drove Franklin into debt before moving to the West Indies. Governor Keith of Pennsylvania promised to help set Franklin up with a new printing house, and sent him to England to buy the things he needed. Franklin went, but Governor Keith failed to keep his promise. Franklin worked for printers in London to better learn his trade and earn enough money for passage back to America.

After about eighteen months, a friend Franklin made on the passage to England, Mr. Denham , offered to take Franklin on as a clerk for his merchant business. Franklin agreed and moved with Denham back to Philadelphia, but Denham soon died. Franklin returned to work for Mr. Keimer after Denham’s death, and, once he saw that Keimer planned to steal his knowledge and cease to employ him, he made an agreement with one of Keimer’s other workers, Hugh Meredith , to go into business together. The two soon opened their own printing house and Franklin, after eventually buying Meredith out of his partnership, went on to be a very successful printer and public official, founding many important civic institutions, such as the colonies’ first lending library, the academy that went on to become the university of Pennsylvania, and the first company of firemen. Along the way he describes mistakes he made, which he calls errata and believes he was able to partially correct later by living rightly.

In Part Two of his book, Franklin presents letters from friends urging him to complete the rest of his history, then he presents one of his key methods for self-improvement, The Art of Virtue —a thirteen week self-improvement cycle in which Franklin exercised thirteen virtues, focusing on one per week. He also presents his daily schedule.

Part Three resumes the narrative of Part One and includes accounts of Franklin’s military service during the French and Indian War as well as a brief account of some of his scientific experiments and publications on electricity. Franklin also uses Part Three to elaborate upon his civic works, including an explanation of how he got Philadelphia to pave and then light its streets. There is little transition between Parts Three and Four.

In Part Four, Franklin describes a diplomatic mission he undertook in London in order to argue on behalf of the Pennsylvania Assembly against the tax-free status of Pennsylvania’s proprietary governors . The mission was a partial success, and the Autobiography concludes, though it is unfinished.

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from The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin from Poor Richard’s Almanack

Literary Analysis • An autobiography is the story of a person’s life. • Autobiography was a new form of literature when Benjamin Franklin wrote The Autobiography. • His work helped set the rules for this new type of writing.

Autobiography • An Autobiography presents events in a person’s life according to how that person sees them. • An autobiography can give personal views of history. Information about the politics, habits, ideas, and values of a society can be found in autobiographies.

Reading Strategy • Franklin tells his readers details about his life. • He explains his goals and interests. • You can draw conclusions about Franklin and his life. • A conclusion is an opinion you reach by pulling together facts and details.

Drawing Conclusions • Use this pattern for drawing conclusions about Franklin’s character while you read. • Details: Franklin changes his plan when he sees he is not meeting his goals. • Personal Experience: You also thought of a different way to meet a goal that was not being met. • Conclusion: Franklin makes adjustments to meet his goals.

Summary • Franklin is working on a plan to reach moral perfection. • He will work on thirteen virtues or qualities. • Franklin writes the virtues in a notebook to see how well he is doing. • He makes a black mark beside a virtue every time he forgets to follow it. • He works on a different virtue each week. • Franklin thinks his plan is helpful but not completely successful.

from Poor Richard’s Almanack - Summary • Franklin gives advice about how people should behave. • He presents his thoughts in aphorisms, or short sayings with a message. • Many of his aphorisms come from traditional folk sayings. • Sayings such as “Well done is better than well said” tell something about Franklin and what he values.

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