Autobiography: literary books

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A #1 best-selling author shows how a boy from small-town New York made it to literary stardom.  Read More >>

In a series of layered essays, art critic Cristín Leach writes about the gaps between reality and perception, about...  Read More >>

The private diaries of one of Australia's greatest living writers, the much loved, fearless and fierce Helen Garner....  Read More >>

From National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize winning author Alice Walker comes an unprecedented compilation of over...  Read More >>

Buckle up and enjoy a rollicking ride with Bernard and ""Cool Kate,"" his unflappable wife, on a memorable trip...  Read More >>

"""Ill Feelings blends memoir, medical history, biography, and literary nonfiction to uncover author Alice Hattrick's...  Read More >>

Perhaps it's true that absence makes the heart grow fonder. Perhaps it's true that you only know what you truly...  Read More >>

A revelatory and very personal exploration of Indian classical music from 'one of his generation's best writers'...  Read More >>

Braided essays about the natural world, aging bodies, family histories, and art and visual phenomena.  Read More >>

The final unpublished works of the late philosopher, cultural critic and media artist, Svetlana Boym, The Origins...  Read More >>

A gripping, funny, joyful account of how the books you read shape your own life in surprising and profound ways....  Read More >>

Equal parts personal memoir and literary history, Jazmina Barrera's ""collection"" of lighthouses explores the allure...  Read More >>

Arthur Upfield's Aboriginal detective Bony features in 29 novels, and this book holds a ""lost"" Bony story - angling...  Read More >>

Dhan Gopal Mukerji (1890-1936) holds the distinction of being the first South Asian immigrant to have a successful...  Read More >>

Tolstoy as Man and Artist with an Essay on Dostoevsky (1901) is a work of literary criticism by Dmitriy Merezhkovsky....  Read More >>

Large print edition, with easy-to-read text, of Victor Hugo's classic work.  Read More >>

Autobiography of Sir Walter Besant (1902) is a posthumously published autobiography by Walter Besant. Although he...  Read More >>

The Life and Romances of Mrs. Eliza Haywood (1915) is a monograph by George Whicher. Highly regarded by feminist...  Read More >>

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1921 Original Publisher: H. Milford, Oxford university...  Read More >>

In one of the great autobiographies of the English language, Mark Twain recounts everything that ever happened to...  Read More >>

A revealing and powerful memoir about the making and unmaking of friendships. 'It's hard to know exactly when the...  Read More >>

An uplifting and delightfully bookish memoir about an 89-year-old woman who reclaims her life by re-reading each...  Read More >>

Daniel Mendelsohn's Three Rings is erudition, essayism, and memoir, made to dance together like a visible clockworks–or...  Read More >>

Elizabeth Bishop has been described as the 'best-loved' poet in English of the second half of the twentieth century....  Read More >>