Autobiography: Literary

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...

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...