Autobiography: literary books

"""One of the most esteemed critics and writers of our time recalls his friendship and apprenticeship with Elizabeth...  Read More >>

An extraordinary memoir about family, the past and mortality, and the final work from the peerless Jonathan Raban....  Read More >>

A PUBLISHERS WEEKLY SUMMER READ And, at the center of it all, am I actually nice or am I just performing a role...  Read More >>

Though well-known to many Whitman scholars, Specimen Days is an underrated 'late' prose work which chronicles the...  Read More >>

The moving, Pulitzer Prize-winning coming-of-age memoir of music, outsiders and the relationships that make us....  Read More >>

An extraordinary memoir about family, the past and mortality, and the final work from the peerless Jonathan Raban....  Read More >>

Korean edition of [The Young Man] by Annie Ernaux who won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature. Annie Ernaux's most...  Read More >>

Continuing where Reimann's earlier book of diaries, I Have No Regrets, left off, in 1964, this volume is a compelling...  Read More >>

A celebration of James Herriot and his world, with favourite stories from his books and insights into his life and...  Read More >>

LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD The highly original, blistering, and unconventional memoir by the Pulitzer...  Read More >>

The acclaimed biographer and obituarist for The Economist reflects on a career spent pursuing life and capturing...  Read More >>

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The acclaimed author of the Bryant & May series and the award-winning Paperboy writes about how he became a writer...  Read More >>

First translation into English of an extraordinary document that lays bare the jealousies felt but rarely expressed...  Read More >>

The internationally bestselling author of the Guido Brunetti mysteries tells her own adventurous life story as she...  Read More >>

The moving, Pulitzer Prize-winning coming-of-age memoir of music, outsiders and the relationships that make us....  Read More >>

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"Xiaolu Guo has been lauded as a ""voice . . . speaking with full freedom"" (Wall Street Journal), which has made...  Read More >>

"""At the age of 8, Reyna Grande made the dangerous and illegal trek across the border from Mexico to the United...  Read More >>

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"Xiaolu Guo has been lauded as a ""voice . . . speaking with full freedom"" (Wall Street Journal), which has made...  Read More >>

"Xiaolu Guo has been lauded as a ""voice . . . speaking with full freedom"" (Wall Street Journal), which has made...  Read More >>

Korean edition of [The Young Man] by Annie Ernaux who won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature. Annie Ernaux's most...  Read More >>

Korean edition of [The Young Man] by Annie Ernaux who won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature. Annie Ernaux's most...  Read More >>

In her first-ever collection of essays, poet and novelist Lorna Goodison interweaves the personal and political...  Read More >>