Please see this guide's Selected Bibliography section for inclusive works on Benjamin Franklin, many of which discuss his life story as well as his Autobiography.
This bibliography lists books, dissertations, and essays specific to Franklin's Autobiography, including detailed scholarly and editorial works related to its publication history as well as its legacy in American culture.
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"The First Published Memoir of Franklin" by 
The Unfinished Life of Benjamin Franklin by "Benjamin Franklin's Memoirs" by "Benjamin Franklin and the Way to Virtue" by "Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography and the Education of America" by "Making and Remaking Benjamin Franklin: The 'Autobiography'" by 
"'Tracing the Pattern Among the Tangled Threads': The Composition and Publication History of The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin" by “From Print to Print: The First Complete Edition of Benjamin Franklin’s ‘Autobiography’” by "Three Earliest Published Lives of Benjamin Franklin, 1790-93: The Autobiography and its Continuations" by "The Life of Benjamin Franklin" by Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography: An Authoritative Text, Backgrounds, Criticism by Selected additional essays included in this volume:
Lemay, J. A. Leo. "Franklin's Autobiography and the American Dream," 349-60.
Levin, David. "The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: The Puritan Experimenter in Life and Art," 335-49. Previously published in Yale Review 53 (Winter 1964): 258-75.
Sanford, Charles L. "An American Pilgrim's Progress," 300-13. Previously published in American Quarterly 6 (1954): 297-310.
Sayre, Robert Freeman. "The Worldly Franklin and the Provincial Critics," 313-25. Previously published in Texas Studies in Literature and Language 4 (1963): 512-24.
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: A Genetic Text by Becoming Benjamin Franklin: The Autobiography and the Life by "'Now, Gods, Stand Up for Bastards': Reinterpreting Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography" by Benjamin Franklin's Autobiographical Writings by Franklin's Autobiography: A Model Life by "The Manuscript and Early Texts of Franklin's 'Autobiography'" by "Anatomy of an Autobiography" External by 
