Table of Contents

Introduction
Select Bibliography
Chronology
 
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY
 
Part One
Part Two
Part Three
Part Four
 
OTHER WRITINGS
 
Silence Dogood (1, 2, 4 & 7)
Franklin’s Epitaph
Old Mistresses Apologue
The Speech of Miss Polly Baker
Rules for Making Oneself a Disagreeable Companion
Observations Concerning the Increase of Mankind
The Kite Experiment
A Parable Against Persecution
The Way to Wealth
Of Lightning
An Edict by the King of Prussia
Petition of the Letter Z
The Whistle
Letter to Joseph Priestley
Information to Those Who Would Remove to America
Letter to Samuel Mather
A Petition of the Left Hand
Speech in the Convention at the Conclusion of its Deliberations
An Address to the Public; From the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery and the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage
Letter to Ezra Stiles

About the Author

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (1706-1790) was a printer, writer, inventor, scientist, diplomat, and statesman. JILL LEPORE is the David Woods Kemper '41 Professor of American History at Harvard University and a staff writer at The New Yorker. Her books include Book of Ages, a finalist for the National Book Award; New York Burning, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; The Name of War, winner of the Bancroft Prize; The Mansion of Happiness, which was short-listed for the 2013 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction; and The Secret History of Wonder Woman. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.