A sample autobiography
The Life and Times of Me™
My Life, My Memories, My Legacy
Example Story — Fictional Sample Data
A Life in Remembered Moments
A yellow house on Maple Street. A third-grade classroom. A first summer job, a county fair, and the drive home with baby Anna. These are the moments gathered in this story.
Chapter 1
Early Childhood
Summer 1958
The yellow house on Maple Street
Mom grew tomatoes along the back fence, and Grandpa built me a swing from the old oak tree.
Chapter 2
School Years
1962
Mrs. Patterson's third-grade class
She read to us every afternoon and let me take home the class turtle over spring break.
Chapter 3
Teenage Years
June 1967
First summer job at Hal's Diner
Fifty cents an hour, all the pie I could eat, and the jukebox always playing the Beatles.
Chapter 4
Young Adulthood
August 1971
Meeting Ruth at the county fair
She beat me at the ring toss, and I asked her to the dance that same night.
Chapter 5
Career and Family
March 1976
Bringing baby Anna home
A snowstorm, a borrowed station wagon, and the quietest drive of my life.
The People and Places That Stay With Me
Ruth, Grandpa Walt, and Anna; Maple Street, Hal’s Diner, and the Lake Erie cabin. Their names and places belong alongside these memories.
People
Ruth Ellison
My wife of fifty years
Grandpa Walt
Taught me to fish and to whistle
Anna
Our first daughter
Places
Maple Street, Dayton
The house I grew up in
Hal's Diner
Where I earned my first paycheck
Lake Erie cabin
Every family summer from 1980 on