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Mahatma Gandhi’s autobiography, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, was originally written in Gujarati and published as Satyana Prayogoathva Aatmakatha (Experiments with Truth or Autobiography). It was published in serial form over a number of instalments in Navajivan, a Gujarati weekly, from 1925 to 1929. The English translation as we see it today was first published in 1948.

In The Story of My Experiments with Truth, Mohandas Gandhi shares his ideologies and morals with the general public, and also narrates incidents that shaped the path that he would take towards the truth. Childhood incidents, incidents from the Indian struggle from independence, Gandhi’s experiences in South Africa, his return to India and his full-fledged involvement in the Independence struggle, his relationship with spirituality and kindness, are all part of this story that, as Gandhi stresses, is more about his experiments with life lessons and morals than it is an autobiography.

Considered one of the most important books of all time due to the influence it wields on people across the world, The Story of My Experiments with Truth is an insight into the mind and life of a man who went on to become the Father of the Nation and shaped India into what it is today.

Written between 1771 and 1790, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is an unfinished record of Franklin’s rich life history and the legacy he built in his scientific and political career. The classic memoir was published after Franklin passed away. The autobiography is divided into four parts, with each part chronicling the events from different time periods when he wrote it. The first part of the book contains letters that he wrote to his son, William, detailing their lineage and his stay in England. Franklin wrote the second part while he was still in France; his relations soured with William after the Revolutionary War. In the third part, he chronicled his return to America where he records all the progress achieved by his country. The fourth part, however, remains incomplete and only contains notable events from the last year of Franklin’s life.

Franklin’s autobiography continues to inspire generation after generation of readers across the world. Interestingly, in the introduction to the 1916 edition of the biography, the editor F.W. Pine wrote that it provided the "most remarkable of all the remarkable histories of our self-made men", with Franklin as the greatest example of the "self-made man".