Autobiography: literary books

Gurba grows up queer, chicana, and take no prisoners. Her story is a revelation, a delight, and an eye-opener.  Read More >>

Delivered in Stockholm on 7 December 2017, My Twentieth Century Evening and Other Small Breakthroughs is the lecture...  Read More >>

A final work of Nobel Prize-winning writer Gunter Grass - a witty and elegiac series of meditations on writing,...  Read More >>

Into the life of the author, a novel appears, as if by chance, and changes everything. As a child in a music class...  Read More >>

Trollope enjoyed considerable acclaim as a novelist during his lifetime, publishing over 40 novels and many short...  Read More >>

"The son of the novelist Henry Roth provides insights into the lean years when the family worked their waterfowl...  Read More >>

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Sex, drugs, and . . . bug stew? In the vein of The Glass Castle and Wild, Cea Sunrise Person's compelling memoir...  Read More >>

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A vibrant, heartfelt memoir about confronting mortality, surviving loss, finding resilience in one's Midwest roots...  Read More >>

A vibrant, heartfelt memoir about confronting mortality, surviving loss, finding resilience in one's Midwest roots...  Read More >>

A vibrant, heartfelt memoir about confronting mortality, surviving loss, finding resilience in one's Midwest roots...  Read More >>

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Earning an MFA in writing at the New School, working at Rolling Stone magazine, and being courted by an editor at...  Read More >>

Maryse Condé is one of the best-known and most beloved French Caribbean literary voices. The author of more than...  Read More >>

Joan Didion’s savage masterpiece, which, since first publication in 1968, has been acknowledged as an unparalleled...  Read More >>

Bayo Akomolafe explores some of the world's most complex concepts--the myths and rituals of modernity, what it means...  Read More >>

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Confessions of an English Opium-Eater is a powerful nineteenth-century autobiography tracing Thomas De Quincey's...  Read More >>

Earning an MFA in writing at the New School, working at Rolling Stone magazine, and being courted by an editor at...  Read More >>

Author of ten books of fiction and short stories, Val Mulkerns has been described by Sebastian Barry as ""a masterly...  Read More >>

As a young student, internationally renowned author Ngugi wa Thiong'o found his voice as a playwright, journalist...  Read More >>

The life of Bruce Frederick Cummings, who wrote under the name of W. Started when he was thirteen, this remarkable...  Read More >>