Life Writing


Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
The Diary of a Young Girl
The Argonauts
Crying in H Mart
In the Dream House
Educated
The Year of Magical Thinking
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
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
Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama
Just Kids
The Complete Persepolis
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
486 books — 102 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

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

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