Benjamin Franklin

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Born:
Jan. 17, 1706
Died:
April 17, 1790

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A noted polymath, Franklin was a leading author and printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, satirist, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat.

Books by Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin: Benjamin Franklin (1952, Liberal Arts Press)

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Benjamin Franklin: The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (2004, Simon & Schuster)

The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

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Benjamin Franklin: Poor Richard (1977, Ballantine Books)

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James Baldwin, Herman Melville, E.B. White, Ernest Hemingway, Sylvia Plath, Nathaniel Hawthorne, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Kurt Vonnegut, Ray Bradbury, Isaac Asimov, Adrienne Rich, John Steinbeck, Edna St. Vincent Millay, T. S. Eliot, W. E. B. Du Bois, Walt Whitman, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, Sinclair Lewis, Tom Wolfe, Sherwood Anderson, Kate Chopin, William Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor, Mark Twain, William Least Heat Moon, Louisa May Alcott, Henry James, Lewis Thomas, Eugene O'Neill, Gwendolyn Brooks, E. E. Cummings, Langston Hughes, Lorraine Hansberry, Annie Dillard, Carson McCullers, Robert Lowell, William Carlos Williams, Henry David Thoreau, Edgar Allan Poe, Jean Toomer, W. H. Auden, Tennessee Williams, Eudora Welty, Thornton Wilder, Dorothy Parker, Ambrose Bierce, Washington Irving, John Updike, Edgar Lee Masters, Patrick F. McManus, Richard Wright, Richard Rodriguez, Leslie Marmon Silko, Frederick Douglass, Thomas Paine, N. Scott Momaday, Emily Dickinson, Stephen Crane, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Benjamin Franklin, Robert Penn Warren, Galway Kinnell, Marianne Moore, Irwin Shaw, Margaret Walker, Ezra Pound, Lawson Fusao Inada, Vannevar Bush, Ralph Ellison, Amiri Baraka, Denise Levertov, Bernard Malamud, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Bret Harte, Pearl S. Buck, Thomas Jefferson, Esther Forbes, Robert E. Lee, Katherine Anne Porter, Conrad Richter, George Santayana, Robinson Jeffers, William Saroyan, James Thurber, Carl Sandburg, Jacques Barzun, Robert Anderson, Cotton Mather, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Paul Farmer, Abraham Lincoln, James E. Miller, Carlotta Cardenas de Dwyer, Robert Hayden, Russell J. Hogan, Kerry M. Wood Miller, James E. Miller Jr., Carlota Cárdenas de Dwyer, Kerry M. Wood, John Smith, William Bradford, Sarah Kemble Knight, William Byrd II, Jonathan Edwards, Anne Bradstreet, Taylor, Edward, Phillis Wheatley, Philip Morin Freneau, J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur, James Fenimore Cooper, William Cullen Bryant, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Greenleaf Whittier, James Russell Lowell, James W. C. Pennington, Francis Wright, Edward Rowe Snow, Seattle Chief, Margaret Fuller, Harriet Jane Hanson Robinson, Mollie Dorsey Sanford, Sidney Lanier, Satanta, Chief Joseph, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Amy Lowell, Archibald MacLeish, Robert Frost, Countee Cullen, Elinor Wylie, Sara Teasdale, James Weldon Johnson, John Crowe Ransom, Wallace Stevens, Phyllis McGinley, Arna Wendell Bontemps, Claude McKay, Louise Bogan, Lillian Hellman, Sabine R. Ulibarrí, Mona Van Duyn, Richard Wilbur, David Wagoner, Theodore Roethke, Karl Jay Shapiro, Richard Eberhart, May Swenson, Mari Evans, Maxine Kumin, Elizabeth Bishop, Howard Nemerov, William Stafford, Randall Jarrell, John N. Morris, Vern Rutsala, Jim Wayne Miller, James Masao Mitsui, Gary Soto, Teresa Palomo Acosta, Eugenia Collier, Walter Blair, Theodore Hornberger, Margaret Wasson, Bernard Augustine De Voto, Conrad Aiken, Byrd, William, Captain John Smith, George Washington, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Paul Hamilton Hayne, Henry Timrod, Abram Joseph Ryan, Sarah Orne Jewett, O. Henry, Stephen Vincent Benét, Paul Engle, Vachel Lindsay, Leonie Adams, James Wright, Ogden Nash, David McCord, Morris Bishop, Richard Willard Armour, Don Marquis, E. J. Kahn, Paul Horgan, White, W. L., John Davenport, Cleveland Amory, Norman Cousins, Frank C. Laubach, Jesse Stuart, Douglas S. Freeman, Catherine Drinker Bowen, Philip Hamburger, Robert C. Pooley, Day, Clarence, Theresa Helburn, Brad Schulberg: The United States in Literature (Hardcover, 1979, Scott, Foresman and Company)

The United States in Literature

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Benjamin Franklin: The autobiography and other writings (1982, Bantam)

The autobiography and other writings

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Benjamin Franklin: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (2016, Standard Ebooks)

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

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Benjamin Franklin: Benjamin Franklin's Book of Virtues (Hardcover, 2016, Applewood Books) No rating

Benjamin Franklin's Book of Virtues

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E.B. White, Joseph Mitchell, Sinclair Lewis, Mark Twain, A. J. Liebling, E. E. Cummings, Edgar Allan Poe, Dorothy Parker, Ambrose Bierce, Washington Irving, James M. Cain, H. L. Mencken, Benjamin Franklin, Bret Harte, Ludwig Bemelmans, Louis Untermeyer, Frank R. Stockton, William Saroyan, Clifton Fadiman, James Thurber, James Russell Lowell, Phyllis McGinley, Stephen Vincent Benét, Ogden Nash, David McCord, Morris Bishop, Don Marquis, Day, Clarence, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Oliver Herford, Eugene Field, N. P. Willis, Joel Chandler Harris, Kenneth Fearing, Ring Lardner, Cornelia Otis Skinner, Donald Ogden Stewart, Booth Tarkington, Carolyn Wells, Marc Connelly, Glen Rounds, Anita Loos, S. J. Perelman, Sally Benson, Richard Lockridge, George Ade, Katharine S. White, Leonard Q. Ross, John Mosher, Edward Streeter, Arthur Kober, Heywood Broun, Frank Moore Colby, McKelway, St. Clair, Frederic S. Cozzens, Charles Heber Clark, Francis Steegmuller, James T. Fields, Moffat, Donald W., Orpheus C. Kerr, V. Petroleum Nasby, Finley Peter Dunne, Frank Sullivan, Robert C. Benchley, Franklin P. Adams, Gibbs, Wolcott, Corey Ford, Nunnally Johnson, Lucretia P. Hale, Clifford Orr, Artemus Ward (Charles Farrar Browne), Russell Maloney, Geoffrey Hellman, M, George W. Harris, Alfred Henry Lewis, Roark Bradford, Frances Warfield, Billings, Josh, Will Cuppy, Alexander Woolcott, Persis Greely Anderson, George Jean Nathan, Alva Johnston, Sanderson Vanderbilt, E. J. Kahn Jr., John McNulty, Angela Cypher, H. C. Bunner, Irwin Edman, Samuel Hoffenstein, Guiterman, Arthur, Taylor, Bert Leston, Clarence Hollister Knapp, Kenneth Allan Robinson, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Lee Strout White, Ruth Ann McKinney: A Subtreasury of American humor (1962, Capricorn Books) No rating

A Subtreasury of American humor

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Benjamin Franklin: The autobiography and other writings (2001, Signet Classic)

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Benjamin Franklin: The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (1909, Digireads.com Publishing)

The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

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James Baldwin, Herman Melville, E.B. White, Ernest Hemingway, Sylvia Plath, Nathaniel Hawthorne, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Steinbeck, Arthur Miller, T. S. Eliot, Martin Espada, Walt Whitman, Willa Cather, Alice Walker, Edith Wharton, Tom Wolfe, Sherwood Anderson, Kate Chopin, Larry McMurtry, William Faulkner, Joyce Carol Oates, E. L. Doctorow, Jack London, Mark Twain, Anna Quindlen, Tim O'Brien, Gwendolyn Brooks, E. E. Cummings, Langston Hughes, Grace Paley, Annie Dillard, Carson McCullers, Robert Lowell, William Carlos Williams, Henry David Thoreau, Edgar Allan Poe, Jean Toomer, W. H. Auden, Rita Dove, Eudora Welty, Ambrose Bierce, Washington Irving, John Updike, Louise Erdrich, Sandra Cisneros, Edgar Lee Masters, Ian Frazier, Joy Harjo, Alex Haley, Frederick Douglass, Thomas Paine, Anne Tyler, N. Scott Momaday, John Hersey, Emily Dickinson, Yusef Komunyakaa, Stephen Crane, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Benjamin Franklin, Robert Penn Warren, Amy Tan, Marianne Moore, Ezra Pound, Bernard Malamud, Bret Harte, Maxine Hong Kingston, Thomas Jefferson, Julia Alvarez, Robert E. Lee, Katherine Anne Porter, Naomi Shihab Nye, James Thurber, Carl Sandburg, Patrick Henry, Abraham Lincoln, Robert Hayden, William Bradford, Anne Bradstreet, Phillis Wheatley, William Cullen Bryant, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Greenleaf Whittier, James Russell Lowell, Margaret Fuller, Chief Joseph, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Archibald MacLeish, Robert Frost, Countee Cullen, Wallace Stevens, Arna Wendell Bontemps, Claude McKay, Theodore Roethke, William Stafford, Randall Jarrell, Sojourner Truth, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Simon J. Ortiz, Abigail Adams, Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut, John F. Kennedy, Joel, Billy., Zora Neale Hurston, Joni Mitchell, Anonymous, Meriwether Lewis, Richard Lederer, Adrienne Rich, John Wesley Powell, Bailey White, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jonathan Edwards, Amy K. Duer, Christopher Columbus, Garcia Lopez de Cardenas, Darryl Babe Wilson, John Smith, Edward Taylor, Steve Wulf, Phillis Wheatley, Michel-guillaume Jean De Crevecoeur, Emily Saliers, Angela De Hoyos, Stephen Foster, George Cooper, Robert E. Lee, Goss, Warren Lee, McKim, Randolph H., Stonewall Jackson, Rev. Henry M. Turner, Molly Moore, Miriam Davis Colt, James Cloyd Bowman, Ricardo Sanchez, Flannery Oconnor, Diana Chang, Garret Hongo, Colleen McElroy: Prentice Hall Literature: Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes (Hardcover, 1999, Prentice Hall)

Prentice Hall Literature: Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes

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Benjamin Franklin: The Way to Wealth (Paperback, 2005, bnpublishing.com)

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Benjamin Franklin, Benjamin Franklin, Carl Japikse: Fart Proudly (Paperback, 2003, Frog, Ltd., Enthea Press)

Fart Proudly

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Benjamin Franklin, Benjamin Franklin: The Way to Wealth (Hardcover, 1986, Applewood Books)

The Way to Wealth

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Benjamin Franklin, L. Jesse Lemisch: Benjamin Franklin (1961, Signet Classics)

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