Autobiography: literary books

It is hard to know the child's own earliest recollections from the things it has been told of itself by those with...  Read More >>

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A collection of autobiographical essays first published in various magazines 1904-6, detailing the author's seafaring...  Read More >>

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization...  Read More >>

From INTRODUCTION. FIVE years ago I laid these following papers aside. I was then much broken in health and spirit....  Read More >>

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

The Bell Jar has become a classic of American literature and has sold more than two million copie in the U.S. An...  Read More >>

The winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction writes a memoir that brings to life the stuff of boyhood--from...  Read More >>

This poignant autobiography casts a sharp eye on contemporary Quebec society and traces the emergence of a distinct...  Read More >>

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization...  Read More >>

The third volume of Gildiner's memoirs takes us through her hijinks in Oxford (Cathy meets the British social system),...  Read More >>

Al Jennings (1863-1961) had already been a runaway, a cowpuncher, and a train-robber before meeting O. Henry on...  Read More >>

Launched into public consciousness by John Peel in the early 1980s, poet, musician, journalist and political activist...  Read More >>

A chronicle of the author's hardscrabble childhood in rural western New York State describes the family members,...  Read More >>

Written in 1911 when the author was 50, this is a series of reminiscences from the first 27 years of his life.  Read More >>

Originally published in 1969. In the seventeenth century neither the literary genre nor the term ‘autobiography’...  Read More >>

*****A teen-age girl survives World War II *****Terry Smith was a teenager attending art school in a London suburb...  Read More >>

Didion chronicles the experience of losing her husband, the writer John Gregory Dunne, to a massive coronary, just...  Read More >>

The nearest we can get to a Dickens autobiography, these letters give us unique insights into his life, and are...  Read More >>

The only critical guide to the short fiction of Hugh Hood (Montreal's Proust, and author of 30 full-length prose...  Read More >>

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The early years of poet P.J. Kavanagh's life - which took him from a Butlin's Holiday Camp to Switzerland and Paris,...  Read More >>

Originally published by Random House, Inc., 1959.  Read More >>