Autobiography: Literary

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...