Life Writing


Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
The Diary of a Young Girl
Crying in H Mart
Educated
In the Dream House
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?
Yes Please
The Complete Persepolis
The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline WoodsonAjax the Warrior by Mary Elwyn PatchettReal Friends by Shannon HaleEl Deafo by Cece BellBe Prepared by Vera Brosgol
Autobiography for Children
10 books — 3 voters
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
477 books — 95 voters

Fun Home by Alison BechdelMarbles by Ellen ForneyHyperbole and a Half by Allie BroshLighter than My Shadow by Katie GreenQuiet Girl in a Noisy World by Debbie Tung
Graphic Novels about Mental Illness
86 books — 41 voters

James Shapiro
Malone's commentary on Sonnet 93 was a defining moment in the history not only of Shakespeare studies but also of literary biography in general. What has emerged in our time as a dominant form of life writing can trace its lineage back to this extended footnote. ...more
James Shapiro

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

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