Autobiography: Literary

An invaluable companion for any writer seeking to make the writing life a more complex and cooperative venture Illuminating, deeply endearing essay...

A previously unpublished wartime memoir from the acclaimed author of Birdy and A Midnight Clear. One of the most acclaimed American write...

The young naturalist W. N. P. Barbellion described this remarkably candid record of living with multiple sclerosis as 'a study in the nude'. It beg...

It is a great pity that we in the United States do not have our own Roger Scruton. As              his . . . collection of essays reminds us, he is...

These volumes bring to a close the only comprehensive edition of the surviving correspondence of William Morris (1834-1896), a protean figure who e...

Heres the thing with kissing: it matters intensely or not at all. Mid-kiss, do you ever wonder who you are, who youre kissing, where its leading? I...

The extraordinary early life in India and England of one of the world's leading public intellectualsWhere is 'home'? For Amartya Sen, home has been...

FROM THE ONE-OF-A-KIND IMAGINATION THAT BROUGHT US SLAUGHTERHOUSE 5 AND CAT'S CRADLE 'Kurt Vonnegut is either the funniest serious writer around o...

George Garretts autobiographical work Ten Years On The Parish, published here in full for the first time since it was written in the late 1930s, sh...

Originally written as three complete books, this one-volume edition includes A Small Boy and Others, Notes of a Son and Brother, and The Middle Yea...

In 1826 Angela Veronese, a gardeners daughter, wrote and published the first modern autobiography by an Italian woman. Veroneses account focuses on...

Mireille Gansel grew up in the traumatic aftermath of her family losing everything-including their native languages-to Nazi Germany. In the 1960s a...

Slouching Towards Los Angeles is a love letter and thank you note to Joan Didion.In The White Album, Joan Didion famously wrote that a place belong...

Simone de Beauvoir, still a teen, began a diary while a philosophy student at the Sorbonne. Written in 1926-27before Beauvoir met Jean-Paul Sartret...

The work of the great literary and cultural critic Walter Benjamin is an audacious plotting of history, art, and thought; a reservoir of texts, c...

More than sixty years ago, the Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education that Americas schools could no longer be segregated by race. Crit...

What is The Tiger Who Came to Tea really about? How is Meg and Mog related to Polish embroidery? And why does death in picture books involve bein...

Heres the thing with kissing: it matters intensely or not at all. Mid-kiss, do you ever wonder who you are, who youre kissing, where its leading? I...

'A tender appreciation of lifes beauty' - Matt Haig, The GuardianIn How to Feel Better, bestselling author Cathy Rentzenbrink shares the advice tha...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE ONDAATJE PRIZE'The best book I read last year by a mile. . . so beautifully written that anyone would be ...