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Autobiography

An annotated collection of 4 books on autobiography, spanning 1903 to 2017. Featuring works by Helen Keller, Federico Fellini, Phil Jackson & Hugh Delehanty and 1 more — each with editorial commentary oriented to digital product practice.

The Story of My Life

Helen Keller, 1903 · Doubleday, Page & Company

Helen Keller's autobiography, written at twenty-two, is the account of a mind constructed against unusual constraints — deaf and blind from nineteen months old, she learned language at seven and went on to read and write…

Fare un film

Federico Fellini, 1974 · Einaudi

Fellini on filmmaking — not a manual but a collection of essays, interviews and reflections on what it means to make a film. The book is as stylistically distinctive as his films: digressive, personal, occasionally surre…

Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success

Phil Jackson & Hugh Delehanty, 2013 · Penguin Press

Phil Jackson won eleven NBA championships as a coach — six with the Bulls, five with the Lakers — and the book is his account of how to lead teams of extreme talent and extreme ego. Jackson's method blended triangle-offe…

Adrian Newey has designed more winning Formula 1 cars than any other engineer alive, and the book is his account of how the work actually happens: the tradeoffs, the iteration cycles, the relationship between intuition a…