Benjamin Franklin
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.
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- Benjamin Franklin
- Year
- 2002
- ISBN-13
- 9781931541855
- Genre
- Biography & Memoir
- Topics
- Benjamin FranklinAmerican founding fathersColonial America
Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for Biography or AutobiographyWonMajor(1939)
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