Ben Franklin Resources

Online Resources

Online Databases

Writings of Ben Franklin

Franklin, Benjamin, "The Way to Wealth". Applewood Books, 1986.

Franklin, Benjamin, "The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin". Dover , 1996.

Franklin, Benjamin, "Poor Richards Almanack". Peter Pauper Press; 1983.

Franklin, Benjamin, "The Poetry of Minor Connecticut Wits". Scholars Facsimilies & 2000 reprint

Franklin, Benjamin, "Satires and Bagatelles"

Selected Print Resources

The Autobiography and Other Writings.  Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin: His Life As He Wrote It Edited by Esmond Wright, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1989.

Brame, Brandon and Warner,Deborah Jean. Franklin & His Friends: Portraying the Man of Science in Eighteenth-Century America . Philadelphia . University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999.

Brands, H.W. The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin. New York . Doubleday.

Cohen, I Bernard. Benjamin Franklin's Science. Cambridge , MA . Harvard University Press, 1990.

Fleming, Thomas, Editor. (1972). The Founding Fathers Benjamin Franklin: A Biography in His Own Words. New York . Newsweek, Inc.

Franklin, Benjamin. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin.  (Various Publishers).

Isaacson, Walter Benjamin Franklin: An American Life. Simon & Schuster, August, 2003

Lemay , J.A. Leo, wrote notes and selected the contents. Franklin Writings. New York . Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 1987.

Lemay , J.A. Leo., Editor. Reappraising Benjamin Franklin: A Bicentennial Perspective. Cranbury , NJ . Associated University Presses, Inc.,1993.

Lopez, Claude-Anne My Life with Benjamin Franklin. New Haven , CT. Yale University, 2000.

Lopez, Claude-Anne and Herbert,Eugenia W. The Private Franklin: The Man and His Family. New York . W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1975.

Miller, William C. Benjamin Franklin’s Philadelphia Printing 1728-1766: A Descriptive Bibliography.  The American Philosophical Society, 1974.

Morgan, Edmund S. Benjamin Franklin Yale University Press, 2002

Sellers, Charles Coleman.  Benjamin Franklin in Portraiture. New Haven , CT. Yale University Press, 1962.

Skemp, Sheila (1994). Benjamin and William Franklin: Father and Son, Patriot and Loyalist. New York . St. Martin ’s Press, Inc.

Van Doren, Carl. Benjamin Franklin. New York . The Viking Press, 1938.

Winegrad, Dilys P. The Intellectual World of Benjamin Franklin: An American Encyclopaedist at the University of Pennsylvania . Philadelphia , PA. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1990

Wright, Esmond. Franklin of Philadelphia . Cambridge , MA . The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1997