Autobiography: Literary

First published in 1978, Mary Oppen''s seminal Meaning a Life has been largely unavailable for decades. Written in her sixties, her first and only ...

Novelist, biographer, journalist and critic, Catherine Carswell was born in 1879 in Glasgow, Scotland, and educated at The Park School for Girls. O...

In the course of compiling his highly acclaimed three-volume biography of Kafka, while foraying to libraries and archives from Prague to Israel, Re...

In this series of letters to William Townend, a fellow-writer and friend since their schooldays at Dulwich College, Wodehouse discusses in some det...

How do you become a writer, and why? Maggie Gee's journey starts a long way from the literary world in a small family in post-war Britain,. At seve...

Growing up in the suburbsconfused about his sexuality, about his consumer-oriented world, about the death of his older brotherBernard Cooper falls ...

Mark Twain's complete, uncensored Autobiography was an instant bestseller when the first volume was published in 2010, on the centennial of the aut...

When Sofia Behrs married Count Leo Tolstoy, the author of War and Peace, husband and wife regularly exchanged diaries covering the years from 1862 ...

Widely regarded as one of the most readable, humorous and poignant autobiographies available today. Goodbye, Twentieth Century incorporates his a...

Patrick Deeley's train journey home to rural East Galway in autumn 1978 was a pilgrimage of grief: his giant of a father had been felled, the hurle...

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

Award-winning playwright, author and critic Bonnie Greer's touching, funny and thought-provoking memoir is a voyage into the making of a woman who ...

Hunter Davies childhood lived amongst the post-war dirt and grime of Carlisle was immediately hailed as a classic memoir from one of Britains forem...

The triumphs and tragedies of growing up as the son of a famous Beat artistTOSH is a memoir of growing up as the son of an enigmatic, much-admired,...

For the first time, novelist Iris Murdoch's life in her own words, from girlhood to her last yearsIris Murdoch was an acclaimed novelist and ground...

An accomplished author, entrepreneur and sportsman, with the perfect home, comfortable lifestyle and all the pressures of a successful conservation...

From one of the most famous poets in history comes a new selection of writings to bereaved friends and acquaintances, providing comfort in a time o...

'Killing It combines three popular, profound topics: where our food comes from, how to achieve purpose in life and how to find lasting love' - Sund...

My father comes into focus for me on a Liars'' Club afternoon. He sits at a wobbly card table weighed down by a bottle. Even now the scene seems so...

Hailed on its original publication as eloquent testimony to the engaging power of art in a man's life (Washington Post), this deeply moving memoir,...

A formally audacious and deeply moving memoir in three timeframes that confronts the defining trauma of the twentieth century, and its effects on a...

'I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination' - Keats, in a letter to his friend Benjamin Bail...

This critical and scholarly edition presents the complete letters of Henry James, one of the great novelists and letter writers of the English lang...

In the spirit of Piri Thomas''s Down These Mean Streets and Maya Angelou''s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, writer and activist Kevin Powell''s me...

Over the course of his long career, Nathaniel Tarn has been a poet, anthropologist, and book editor, while his travels have taken him into every co...

Over the course of his long career, Nathaniel Tarn has been a poet, anthropologist, and book editor, while his travels have taken him into every co...

Writer Elspeth Sandys was born during the Second World War, the result of a brief encounter between two people who would never meet again. The firs...

In February 1822 the writer and adventurer Edward John Trelawny arrived in Pisa to make the acquaintance of his heroes Shelley and Byron, leaving a...

Something extraordinary happened to the UK literary scene in the 1980s. In the space of eight years, a generation of young British writers took the...

The surprising final chapter of a great American life. When the first volume of Mark Twain's uncensored Autobiography was published in 2010, it was...