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 and Shadows on the Grass by Isak Dinesen
Literary biographies
488 books — 105 voters
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline WoodsonThe Secret Life of a Weight-Obsessed Woman by Iris Ruth PastorEl Deafo by Cece BellHey, Kiddo by Jarrett J. KrosoczkaInside Out & Back Again by Thanhhà Lại
Autobiography for Children
29 books — 5 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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