Autobiography: Literary

It has true spiritual importance for contemporary American literature.--Edward Hirsch Upon its initial publication, acclaimed poet Li-Young Lee's ...

Anais Nin''s Incest reveals secrets so shocking that they were suppressed even when she began publishing her diaries in 1966. Exploring a woman''...

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'Magical' Daily Mail'I finished it with an ache in my heart and a tear in my eye' SpectatorFrom the author of Cider With Rosie, Village Christmas i...

In the autumn of 1965, flush with the unexpected success of his first published books, the Czech author Bohumil Hrabal bought a cottage in Kersko. ...

'The Tongue Set Free is so beautifully written. It begins wtih an extraordinary image, Canetti's earliest memory. He comes out of a room. A man mak...

During my first post-lockdown massage, I willingly engaged in the requisite chit chat about lockdown experiences with my therapist. He gushed behin...

In the autumn of 1915, in a slightly heroic mood, E.M. Forster arrived in Alexandria, full of lofty ideals as a volunteer for the Red Cross. Yet mo...

In a memoir as vivid and unpredictable as any novel we follow Roger Garfitt on his journey from stable boy to jazz dancer, from Oxford dandy to Six...

This superb account of life on the Great Blasket Island off the west coast of Kerry, written as the nineteenth century draws to its close and the d...

The iconic memoir from the Irish author of the legendary The Country Girls trilogy.'Get ready to applaud, ladies and gentlemen, because there is no...

Born in Portugal in 1922 in the tiny village of Azinhaga, José Saramago was only eighteen months old when he moved with his father and mother to li...

Winner of the 2020 PEN Open Book AwardBest of 2019: Nonfiction - Entropy MagazineA memoir and book of mourning, a grandsons attempt to reconcile hi...

Caste and Outcast (1923) is an autobiography by Dhan Gopal Mukerji. Published the year after Mukerji moved from San Francisco to New York City, Cas...

The Memoirs of Victor Hugo (1899) is an autobiographical work by Victor Hugo. Assembled from diaries and manuscripts left behind by the author foll...

The novelist Henry James arrived in Venice as a tourist, and instantly fell in love with the city particularly with the splendid Palazzo Barbaro, ...

You put together two things that have not been put together before. And the world is changed In Levels of Life Julian Barnes gives us Nadar, the p...

A gripping, funny, joyful account of how the books you read shape your own life in surprising and profound ways. Bookworms know what scholars of li...

The Journals of Sylvia Plath offers an intimate portrait of the author of the extraordinary poems for which Plath is so widely loved, but it is als...

'A deeply intelligent and searching book, one that makes you re-consider the narrative of your own life and reframe the story you tell yourself' Hi...

'I drew my first breath on the 28th of January 1935, which was quite a good time for a future writer to be born in England... The only child in a l...