The Day I Became an Autodidact (Masterplots II: Women’s Literature Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Kendall Hailey
- First Published: 1988
- Type of Work: Diary
- Time of Work: The 1980’s
- Setting: Los Angeles, California
- Principal Characters: Kendall Hailey, Oliver Hailey, Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey
- Genres: Nonfiction, Diary
- Subjects: Maturation or coming of age, Family or family life, Self-discovery, Teenagers, Authors or writers, Education or educators, 1980’s, Learning or scholarship
- Locales: California, England
Form and Content
When fifteen-year-old Kendall Hailey received a mandatory summer reading list from her private high school, she realized that she did not like an impartial list dictating her reading habits. She decided that day to become an autodidact, or “self-taught person,” allowing her own interests to dictate what she studied. The Day I Became an Autodidact: And the Advice, Adventures, and Acrimonies That Befell Me Thereafter is Hailey’s very personal and amusing diary of the ensuing four years.
Her parents, playwright Oliver Hailey and acclaimed...
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