Autobiography: Literary

For generations, the works of Laura Ingalls Wilder have defined the American frontier and the pioneer experience for the public at large. Pioneer G...

In this funny, poignant and unflinchingly honest memoir, one of the worlds best-loved storytellers explains how he evolved from a conservative son ...

Written between August and December 1938, Autumn Journal is still considered one of the most valuable and moving testaments of living through the t...

'The best thing he's ever written . . . I loved it' ObserverMelvyn Bragg's first ever memoir - an elegiac, intimate account of growing up in post-w...

I Got Mine: Confessions of a Midlist Writer is the memoir of Nichols's extraordinary life, as seen through the lens of his writing. Everything that...

The Sheldon family were immigrants to the USA; a fairly dysfunctional family, constantly on the move, either fleeing debt crises or seeking possibl...

'A memoir which is also a work of art' Allan Massie, The Scotsman The story begins with Campbell, aged 14, in a police cell in Glasgow. Hes been ...

In 1969, poet and revolutionary Margaret Randall was forced underground when the Mexican government cracked down on all those who took part in the ...

_________________ 'A brilliant and sensitive writer ... I was very moved' - Jung Chang A raw and powerful memoir' - New York Times Ying's style ...

A Hugo Award Nominee!Featuring an introduction by Neil Gaiman! J. Michael Straczynski is, without question, one of the greatest science fiction min...

New Zealand's most extraordinary literary everyman - poet, novelist, critic, activist - C. K. Stead told the story of his first twenty-three years ...

'Peerless.' Daily Telegraph 'Sprinkled with magic.' Observer'Full of mischief, romance, fun and kindness.' The TimesSoldier, journalist, historian,...

Clarence Major is an award-winning painter, fiction writer, and poet - as well as an essayist, editor, anthologist, lexicographer, and memoirist. H...

A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR From one of our greatest living writers, comes a remarkable memoir ...

Sinclair Lewis Remembered is a collection of reminiscences and memoirs by contemporaries, friends, and associates of Lewis that offers a revealing ...

Winner of the Edgar(R) Award for Best Fact Crime The true account of one boy's lifelong search for his boarding-school bully. Equal parts childho...

'The master storyteller of our times' Hillary Rodham Clinton'The whole story of his truly astonishing life' Bob Woodward'The book was damn near add...

The extraordinary story of one woman''s ten-year odyssey that brought her physical, creative, emotional, and spiritual healing. With a play opening...

Britains best loved rural writer chronicles the progress of the seasons in the Stour valley village where he has lived and worked among artists, wr...

The third son of a coalminer, David Storey takes us from his tough upbringing in Wakefield, to being ''sold'' to Leeds Rugby League Club, to his es...

Originally published in 1931, this memoir is an unflinching look at the life experience of a woman struggling with identity and isolation. In harro...

Towards the end of a long and astonishingly full life, whose scope and variety most of us can only dream about, Jan Carew began writing his memoirs...

Speaking one language, I submit, is like living in a house with one window only... From his legendary birth in a snow bank in northwestern Manitob...

January 1957: girl meets boy on a blind date arranged by Allen Ginsberg. The girl was Joyce Johnson, the boy Jack Kerouac, and it was nine months b...

Published the day Paris fell to the Germans, this is Gertrude Stein''s look at food, fashion and France using her unique sense of humour.

Set in the late 1960s, Mother Land describes life on an Aegean island, seen through the eyes of a nine-year-old boy. It is the first-hand account o...

One minute, 11-year-old Carmen is watching her hippy mum put curlers in for the first time, the next she is being dragged with her sister through L...

A momentous memoir of childhood and adolescence from one of our finest and most beloved writers, as weve never seen her before. In The Lo...

'A compelling memoir. Absorbing and graced with a deceptive lightness of touch, [Hanging with the Elephant] is clever and brilliantly pieced togeth...

At the age of fifty, towards the end of the First World War, W. H. Davies decided that he must marry. Spurning London society and the literary circ...

When he turned sixty-five, playwright Simon Gray began to keep a diary in which he reflected on a life filled with cigarettes (continuing), alcohol...

Twists and Turns in the Heart's Antarctic is a compelling new volume in Hélène Cixous's search for lost time. Readers of earlier volumes - Hemlock ...

In March 2010 the Canadian Literature Centre hosted award-winning novelist and storyteller Eden Robinson at the 4th annual Henry Kreisel Lecture. R...

The incredible autobiography from Claire Lorrimer, bestselling romance novelist and daughter of 'Queen of Romance' Denise Robins.You Never Know is ...