Life Writing


Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
The Diary of a Young Girl
Crying in H Mart
In the Dream House
Educated
The Argonauts
The Year of Magical Thinking
H is for Hawk
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama
The Complete Persepolis
The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography
A Moveable Feast by Ernest HemingwayWill in the World by Stephen GreenblattI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya AngelouDown and Out in Paris and London by George OrwellOut of Africa / Shadows on the Grass by Isak Dinesen
Literary biographies
483 books — 99 voters

Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline WoodsonThe Secret Life of a Weight-Obsessed Woman by Iris Ruth PastorAjax the Warrior by Mary Elwyn PatchettReal Friends by Shannon HaleEl Deafo by Cece Bell
Autobiography for Children
11 books — 4 voters

Virginia Woolf
These then are some of my first memories. But of course as an account of my life they are misleading, because the things one does not remember are as important; perhaps they are more important.
Virginia Woolf, Moments of Being: A Collection of Autobiographical Writing

Per questo, si scrive. Si sono moltiplicate le memorie di chi vuole raccontare la vecchiaia propria o dei propri familiari, la morte di una persona cara, o quella a cui egli stesso è prossimo. Si scrive perché si pensa. Si pensa perché si vive.
Gabriella Caramore, L'età grande. Riflessioni sulla vecchiaia

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