Benjamin Franklin
- Authors
- Van Doren, Carl
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Tags
- history , franklin , benjamin , 1706-1790 , biography
- ISBN
- 9780140152609
- Date
- 1938-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 1.63 MB
- Lang
- en
"Second printing, October, 1938.";"General bibliography": p. [785]-788
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 were never published before.