"It is not my purpose to attempt a real autobiography. I simply want to tell the story of my numerous experiments with truth and as my life consists of nothing but those experiments, it is true that the story will take the shape of an autobiography. " The Story of My Experiments with Truth, the autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi, is a very popular and influential book. It covers the period from his birth (1869) to the year 1921, describing his childhood, his school days, his early marriage, his journeys abroad, his legal studies and practice. In the last chapter, he noted, "My life from this point onward has been so public that there is hardly anything about it that people do not know. . "