Writing is an art form that anyone can engage in, regardless of their skill level, and while some works may not resonate or be well-received, every book holds value simply by being written, as many published authors have faced similar challenges. The key to developing your writing lies in dedication and perseverance; it’s essential to nurture your unique voice instead of trying to mimic successful writers. By joining a writers’ group, you can surround yourself with peers at various stages of their writing journeys, providing mutual support through feedback and shared experiences. If you aspire to embark on your writing career, commitment is crucial. To aid your journey, we have gathered a collection of 85 free e-books focused on writing, biographies, and memoirs, covering essential topics like academic writing and writing techniques, which can help enhance your skills and confidence as a writer.
Academic Writing
- Exploring Perspectives: A Concise Guide to Analysis by Randall Fallows
- ePortfolio Performance Support Systems: Constructing, Presenting, and Assessing Portfolios by Katherine V. Wills, Rich Rice (eds)
- Copy(write): Intellectual Property in the Writing Classroom by Martine Rife, et al.
- Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing by Charles Lowe, Pavel Zemliansky
- Writing in College: From Competence to Excellence by Amy Guptill
- Teaching Autoethnography: Personal Writing in the Classroom by Melissa Tombro
- Reconnecting Reading and Writing by Alice S. Horning, Elizabeth W. Kraemer
- Originality, Imitation, and Plagiarism: Teaching Writing in the Digital Age by Caroline Eisner, Martha Vicinus
- Writing Better University Essays by Wikibooks
- Writing to Read: Evidence for How Writing Can Improve Reading by Steve Graham, Michael Hebert
- Online Technical Writing by David A. McMurrey
- Rhetoric and Composition by Matthew D. Barton
Writing Skill
- How To Write A Children’s Book by Katie Davis
- Basic Writing by George Otte, Rebecca Williams Mlynarczyk
- Fundamentals of Fiction Writing by Arthur Sullivant Hoffman
- The Art of Story Writing by Nathaniel C. Fowler
- How to Write a Novel by Grant Richards
- Write Good or Die by Scott Nicholson
- Basic Writing by Wikibooks
- How To Write Clearly: Rules and Exercises on English Composition by Edwin A. Abbott
- The Lure of the Pen by Flora Klickmann
- Short Story Writing by Charles Raymond Barrett
- Methods of Authors by Hugo Erichsen
- Rhymes and Meters: a practical manual for versifiers by Horatio Winslow
- How to Tell a Story and Other Essays by Mark Twain
- How to Speak and Write Correctly by Joseph Devlin
- The Century Handbook of Writing by Garland Greever, Easley S. Jones
- Word Study and English Grammar by Frederick W. Hamilton
- The Elements of Style by William Strunk, Jr.
- Write Your Life Story by Michael Oke
- Keywords in Creative Writing by Wendy Bishop, David Starkey
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Biographies, Memoirs of Leaders & Politicians
- The Life and Teaching of Karl Marx by Max Beer
- An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments With Truth by Mohandas K. Gandhi
- The True Benjamin Franklin by Sydney George Fisher
- Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson by Thomas Jefferson
- Benjamin Franklin by John T. Morse Jr.
- George Washington Man and Monument by Cunliffe Marcus
Biographies & Memoirs of Writers
- Herman Melville, mariner and mystic by Raymond Melbourne Weaver
- Voltaire by John Morley
- The Last Days of Tolstoy by V. G. Chertkov
- The Man Shakespeare and his Tragic Life Story by Frank Harris
- Victor Hugo: His Life and Works by G. Barnett Smith
- Tolstoi as Man and Artist, with an Essay on Dostoievski by Dmitry Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky
- Mark Twain’s Burlesque Autobiography by Mark Twain
- Dangerous Intimacy: The Untold Story of Mark Twain’s Final Years by Karen Lystra
Historical Biographies & Memoirs
- Vitus Bering: the Discoverer of Bering Strait by Peter Lauridsen
- Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana
- Border and Bastille by George A. Lawrence
- Who Was Who: 5000 B. C. to Date by Irwin L. Gordon
- Shattered Crystals by M.A. Kanner, E.R. Kugler
- A Voyage to the South Sea by William Bligh
- Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte by Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne
- Nero by C. Suetonius Tranquillus
- Captain Cook: His Life, Voyages and Discoveries by W.H.G. Kingston
- Memoirs of the Life of Anne Boleyn, Queen of Henry VIII by Elizabeth Benger, Lucy Aikin
- The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln by Abraham Lincoln
- David Crockett: His Life and Adventures by John S. C. Abbott
- An American Engineer in Stalin’s Russia: The Memoirs of Zara Witkin by Zara Witkin
- Villehardouin and de Joinville: Memoirs of the Crusades by Geoffroi de Villehardouin
Military Biographies & Memoirs
- Human Bullets: A Soldier’s Story of the Russo-Japanese War by Tadayoshi Sakurai
- Military Career of Napoleon the Great by Montgomery B. Gibbs
- The Story of General Pershing by Everett Titsworth Tomlinson
- With the Help of God and a Few Marines by A.W. Catlin, W.A. Dyer
- The Great Adventure by Barry Allan
- A Sailor of King George by Captain Frederick Hoffman
- The Diary of a U-boat Commander by Sir William Stephen Richard King-Hall
- War’s Dark Frame by Wadsworth Camp
- Reconciliation Road: A Family Odyssey by John Douglas Marshall
- The Captives by James L. Cathcart, Jane B. Cathcart
- The Generalship of Ulysses S. Grant by J. F. C. Fuller
Scientific Biographies & Memoirs
- Michael Faraday by J. H. Gladstone
- The Art and Politics of Science by Harold Varmus
- Archimedes by Thomas Little Heath
- The Life of Sir Isaac Newton by David Brewster
- The Life of Pasteur by Rene Vallery-Radot
- Great Astronomers by Robert S. Ball
- Lord Kelvin by Andrew Gray
- Famous Men of Science by Sarah Knowles Bolton
- Charles Lyell and Modern Geology by Thomas George Bonney
- Zeppelin: The Story of a Great Achievement by Harry Vissering
- The Story of Euclid by W. B. Frankland
- Robert Fulton: Engineer and Artist by H. W. Dickinson
- Heisenberg: Uncertainty by David C. Cassidy
- Albert Einstein: Image and Impact by American Institute of Physics
- The Autobiography of Charles Darwin by Charles Darwin
