diaries

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"In his high school diaries, we keep seeing the same line over and over again: 'I didn't go to school today,'" he said with a smile.

From Barron's • May 10, 2026

Traces of Guler's lifelong devotion to cinema can even be found in his teenage diaries from the late 1940s and 1950s, according to Temel Yilmaz, conservator and archive researcher.

From Barron's • May 10, 2026

When Elliott Mossman compiled and translated that correspondence in 1981, his annotations relied on Freidenberg’s recently discovered and voluminous diaries.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026

After her death, the author plans to donate her diaries to one such repository in Iowa.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026

I’ve done my best to capture the language with which each person spoke and wrote: dialogue appears in native dialects; passages from diaries and other personal writings are quoted exactly as written.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot