Autobiography: literary books

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 >>

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

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

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

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

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

Winner of the 2020 Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger, France's best foreign book of the year. ‘Astounding’ Sebastian...  Read More >>

The son of one of the greatest writers of our time—Nobel Prize winner and internationally best-selling icon Gabriel...  Read More >>

The exciting story of a newspaper reporter who risked his life in Nanking, Singapore, and Manila to provide the...  Read More >>

The engaging memoir of a pioneering seventies woman poet  Read More >>

'Enlightening, moving' SIR IAN MCKELLEN From the acclaimed and bestselling biographer Jonathan Bate, a luminous...  Read More >>

'Enlightening, moving' SIR IAN MCKELLEN From the acclaimed and bestselling biographer Jonathan Bate, a luminous...  Read More >>

Originally published: Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1983.  Read More >>

Originally published: Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1983.  Read More >>

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"Believing that ""literary icons don't answer letters from ordinary people,"" Noreen Olson nonetheless contacted...  Read More >>

From Rick Morton, the author of the bestselling, critically acclaimed memoir One Hundred Years of Dirt comes a dazzlingly...  Read More >>

Australia’s leading biographer Brenda Niall, now in her nineties, turns the spotlight on her own story in this fascinating...  Read More >>

Newlove creates in unforgettable prose the pictures of Hemingway, Faulkner, Wolfe, Fitzgerald and more in this book...  Read More >>

A memoir of a family’s resilience and its odyssey through the medical system, and an attempt to give dignity and...  Read More >>

In this literary memoir and autoethnography, poet and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn reflects on a life lived in...  Read More >>

In this literary memoir and autoethnography, poet and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn reflects on a life lived in...  Read More >>