It began with a teenager's scrawls in a loose-leaf notebook and then became a publishing phenomenon. Edward Robb Ellis' monumental diary has made news in Time m

Discusses diarists such as Samuel Cole Davis, Charles Osborn, Lewis and Clark, Zebulon Pike, Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, John Charles Fremont, Margaret Van Horn Dwi

The diary as a genre is found in all literate societies, and these autobiographical accounts are written by persons of all ranks and positions. The Diary offers

On Diary is the second collection in English of the groundbreaking and profoundly influential work of one of the best-known and provocative theorists of autobio