Benjamin Franklin Volume 1

by Carl van Doren

Carl Van Doren received the 1938 Pulitzer Prize in Biography for this work. It contains the most extensive collection of Benjamin Franklin's autobiographical writings, much of which was long out-of-print. Also included are some fifty letters written by Franklin that was never published before.

Genres: Biography

424 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1938

About the author

Carl Clinton van Doren, a United States critic and biographer, won Pulitzer Prize. He was the brother of Mark van Doren and the uncle of Charles van Doren.

Reviews

[Tommy]

1st edition / 4th printing, 1938.