Autobiography: literary books

The award-winning memoir of one tumultuous year of boyhood in Fort Worth, Texas, opening with a handshake with JFK,...  Read More >>

Disarmingly frank essays on sexuality, celebrity, TJ Maxx, acne,...  Read More >>

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The perennially bestselling memoir from one of the world's most gifted storytellers is now a feature film starring...  Read More >>

Originally published in 2016 by Chatto & Windus, Great Britain --Title page verso.  Read More >>

Home at Last is a compelling and insightful memoir illustrating the unique challenges adult children of alcoholics...  Read More >>

'This country leans in on you. Like family. To my way of thinking, it is family.' The natural world, in Tim Winton's...  Read More >>

""Hysterically droll, touching, elegant, and wise--a coming-of-age story from someone who possibly came of age before...  Read More >>

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A dazzling translation by Lydia Davis of the first volume of Michel Leiris's masterwork, perhaps the most important...  Read More >>

The second volume of Michel Leiris's hugely influential four-volume autobiographical essay, available to English-language...  Read More >>

Meet eleven families and couples living with an incarceration. Discover what brought prison into their worlds. How...  Read More >>

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

Margaret Hatcher was a wounded, wordless child who cried when her classmates made fun of her and put on a brave...  Read More >>

A romance story of love and betrayal, of tenderness and brutality, of love lost and then found. Based on a true...  Read More >>

Ludwig Thoma: Erinnerungen. Lebensbilder des bayerischen Volksdichters Erstdruck: Albert Langen / Georg Muller Verlag,...  Read More >>

A small town girl leaves her troubled family and starts stripping-which introduces her to a community that keeps...  Read More >>

Part memoir, part urban history, Flight Path: A Search for Roots beneath the World's Busiest Airport is a riveting...  Read More >>

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa, the African. Written by Himself was...  Read More >>

Leonora Carrington is perhaps the most enchanting of the women Surrealists. This book describes the events of 1940,...  Read More >>

A ... memoir with elements of Auntie Mame and Grey Gardens that chronicles the world of one California family dominated...  Read More >>

Before he runs out of time, Irish bon vivant MALACHY MCCOURT shares his views on death - sometimes hilarious and...  Read More >>

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