85 Free Writing, Biographies and Memoirs Ebooks

The Sumerians first invented writing as a means of long-distance communication, which was necessitated by trade. Writing skills are specific abilities that help writers put their thoughts into words in a meaningful form and to mentally interact with the message. It is the primary basis upon which one’s learning and intellect will be judged. Writing skills help us improve our communication and thinking skills by allowing us to explain and refine our ideas to others and to ourselves. Indeed, writing is an important part of communication.

Anyone can write a book. It might be bad or be incomprehensible, but so what, it’s still a book and many published authors haven’t done any better. It simply means that anyone who puts in enough time can actually write well. Some of our best writing comes from ordinary people from all walks of life. Perhaps the biggest reason that writers fail is that too many writers compare themselves to others. Instead of developing their own voice and style, they try to emulate someone else who is doing well. The only way to become a better writer is through hard work and consistency. Join a writers’ group. Find people who are at the same point in their writing career as you and meet up regularly to read each other’s work and give one another feedback.

If you want to start your own writing career, make sure you are committed to it. In this post, we have compiled 85 free writing, biography, and memoir e-books, discussing topics such as academic writing, writing skills, biographies, and memoirs. The only way to become a better writer is through hard work and consistency. Join a writers’ group. Find people who are at the same point in their writing career as you and meet up regularly to read each other’s work and give one another feedback.

Academic Writing

1. Exploring Perspectives: A Concise Guide to Analysis by Randall Fallows
2. ePortfolio Performance Support Systems: Constructing, Presenting, and Assessing Portfolios by Katherine V. Wills, Rich Rice (eds)
3. Copy(write): Intellectual Property in the Writing Classroom by Martine Rife, et al.
4. Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing by Charles Lowe, Pavel Zemliansky
5. Writing in College: From Competence to Excellence by Amy Guptill
6. Teaching Autoethnography: Personal Writing in the Classroom by Melissa Tombro
7. Reconnecting Reading and Writing by Alice S. Horning, Elizabeth W. Kraemer
8. Originality, Imitation, and Plagiarism: Teaching Writing in the Digital Age by Caroline Eisner, Martha Vicinus
9. Writing Better University Essays by Wikibooks
10. Writing to Read: Evidence for How Writing Can Improve Reading by Steve Graham, Michael Hebert
11. Online Technical Writing by David A. McMurrey
12. Rhetoric and Composition by Matthew D. Barton

Writing Skill

1. How To Write A Children’s Book by Katie Davis
2. Basic Writing by George Otte, Rebecca Williams Mlynarczyk
3. Fundamentals of Fiction Writing by Arthur Sullivant Hoffman
4. The Art of Story Writing by Nathaniel C. Fowler
5. How to Write a Novel by Grant Richards
6. Write Good or Die by Scott Nicholson
7. Basic Writing by Wikibooks
8. How To Write Clearly: Rules and Exercises on English Composition by Edwin A. Abbott
9. The Lure of the Pen by Flora Klickmann
10. Short Story Writing by Charles Raymond Barrett
11. Methods of Authors by Hugo Erichsen
12. Rhymes and Meters: a practical manual for versifiers by Horatio Winslow
13. How to Tell a Story and Other Essays by Mark Twain
14. How to Speak and Write Correctly by Joseph Devlin
15. The Century Handbook of Writing by Garland Greever, Easley S. Jones
16. Word Study and English Grammar by Frederick W. Hamilton
17. The Elements of Style by William Strunk, Jr.
18. Write Your Life Story by Michael Oke
19. Keywords in Creative Writing by Wendy Bishop, David Starkey

Biographies & Memoirs of Leaders & Politicians

1. The Life and Teaching of Karl Marx by Max Beer
2. An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments With Truth by Mohandas K. Gandhi
3. The True Benjamin Franklin by Sydney George Fisher
4. Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson by Thomas Jefferson
5. Benjamin Franklin by John T. Morse Jr.
6. George Washington Man and Monument by Cunliffe Marcus

Biographies & Memoirs of Writers

1. Herman Melville, mariner and mystic by Raymond Melbourne Weaver
2. Voltaire by John Morley
3. The Last Days of Tolstoy by V. G. Chertkov
4. The Man Shakespeare and his Tragic Life Story by Frank Harris
5. Victor Hugo: His Life and Works by G. Barnett Smith
6. Tolstoi as Man and Artist, with an Essay on Dostoievski by Dmitry Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky
7. Mark Twain’s Burlesque Autobiography by Mark Twain
8. Dangerous Intimacy: The Untold Story of Mark Twain’s Final Years by Karen Lystra