Autobiography: literary books

Diana Kirk tosses her virtue into the wind in this series of essays about growing up and facing adulthood. Sex,...  Read More >>

The words ""self-forgetful"" were intentionally printed with a line through them on the title page.  Read More >>

""Anticlimax Leviathan"" is the true story of a strange young man from Detroit. A blue collar worker for the auto...  Read More >>

The words ""self-forgetful"" were intentionally printed with a line through them on the title page.  Read More >>

Lady Antonia Fraser—novelist, historian, daughter of progressive aristocrats, and Dame of the British Empire—first...  Read More >>

Richard Shelton immerses us in the hardscrabble lives of his Boise, Idaho, clan during the 1930s and ‘40s. Using...  Read More >>

A rare literary memoir that captures a deaf woman's experiences in the early twentieth century.  Read More >>

Fred Schafer's autobiography is a multilayered story of his life, a thought-provoking and entertaining literary...  Read More >>

INTERIOR BLACK & WHITE. Fred Schäfer's autobiography is a multilayered story of his life, a thought-provoking and...  Read More >>

This selection from the diaries and letters of the Bulgakovs, mostly translated for the first time into English,...  Read More >>

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The second of two hardcover volumes collecting the major nonfiction by the ""father of American literature,"" including excerpts...  Read More >>

Discusses Buddhism, love, Henry James, and the tango. In this title, the eighty-four-year-old blind man's wit is...  Read More >>

Contains correspondence from June 6, 1880 to October 20, 1881  Read More >>

Everyone has a story, a lifetime of memories. The thirty authors in this anthology have written stories of childhood,...  Read More >>

Everyone has a story, a lifetime of memories. The thirty authors in this anthology have written stories of childhood,...  Read More >>

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The shockingly funny and brilliant memoir from one of Britain's greatest and best-loved writers.  Read More >>

Dylan Thomas's classic account of his childhood Christmases, with full colour illustrations by Peter Bailey. The...  Read More >>

One of the most influential books in early American literature.  Read More >>

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A stunning memoir from one of Australia's most highly acclaimed writers A stunning memoir from one of Australia's...  Read More >>

In Three Tides, a “writer's writer” lets readers peek over her shoulder as she talks about writing, revealing the...  Read More >>

Pulitzer Prize finalist Elizabeth Alexander--considered one of America's most important contemporary poets--reflects...  Read More >>

""A son's personal exploration of one of the most influential--and troubled--artistic couples of the twentieth century,...  Read More >>