Autobiography: literary books

From the bestselling author of 4 3 2 1 and The New York Trilogy, an updated collection of Paul Auster's nonfiction,...  Read More >>

An ""extraordinary"" debut memoir of first love, identity, and self-discovery among a group of friends who became...  Read More >>

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"From the critically acclaimed author of ""Quiet, Please: Dispatches from a Public Librarian,"" comes a collection...  Read More >>

This collection of essays from G.K. Chesterton includes the following works: What is America? A Meditation in a...  Read More >>

A brilliant memoir from the celebrated Chilean novelist on friends,...  Read More >>

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In 1913, Joaquín Nin abandoned his family, including his ten-year-old daughter, Anaïs. Twenty years later, Anaïs...  Read More >>

“A love song to a lost New York” (New York magazine) from novelist, essayist, and critic Frederic Tuten as he recalls...  Read More >>

“You don’t have to be Irish to cherish this literary gift—just being human and curious and from a family will suffice.”...  Read More >>

"""Richly absorbing . . . Part autobiography and part travelogue . . . [with] drama, enchantment, and grist."" -The...  Read More >>

The origin story of a childhood spent in poverty during the Cultural Revolution, from Yan Lianke, named ‘China’s...  Read More >>

The True Story of My Life from Hans Christian Andersen. Danish author and poet most famous for his fairy tales...  Read More >>

For Gertrude Stein and her wife Alice B Toklas, life in Paris was based upon the rue de Fleurus and the Saturday...  Read More >>

In I Never Left Home, poet and revolutionary Margaret Randall tells the moving, captivating, and astonishing story...  Read More >>

A series of aphorisms, reflections, and meditations on love, writing, art, politics, and society, as well as Baudelaire's...  Read More >>

The Grand Canyon of the Colorado/Stickeen is a classic John Muir nature story collection.  Read More >>

Mark Doty has always felt haunted by Walt Whitman's bold, perennially new American voice, and by his equally radical...  Read More >>

Mark Doty has always felt haunted by Walt Whitman's bold, perennially new American voice, and by his equally radical...  Read More >>

Mark Doty has always felt haunted by Walt Whitman's bold, perennially new American voice, and by his equally radical...  Read More >>

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The only autobiography by the great Roland Barthes, philosopher, literary theorist and semiotician. This is the...  Read More >>

A stimulating combination of memoir, essay, poetry, confession and critique, Blueberries is a powerful and revealing...  Read More >>

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