Benjamin Franklin: A Biography in His Own Words

Benjamin Franklin never finished writing his famous Autobiography. To friends who urged him in 1788 to complete the task--begun a quarter century earlier but interrupted by the Revolution--he explained that even at the age of eight-two he was still too busy living his life to write about it. At the time of his death two years later, Franklin had covered only the first half of his extraordinarily long and active career and the volume remained incomplete. With the publication of Benjamin Franklin, A Biography in His Own Words, the full story is available.