What did you learn from your experience? For example, when Roald Dahl wrote his first autobiography, Boy, he chose to focus on his school years. He tells the story of his local sweet shop and his ...

Biography and autobiography: pre-Independence era Biography as a modern literary genre arrived quite late on Urdu’s literary scene. It emerged under the influence of English literature in the ...

Over the past several years, Cusk has been periodically producing autobiographical essays, and her new book, “Coventry,” collects this work alongside a selection of her art and literary criticism.

I first read Lucy Grealy’s memoir, “Autobiography of a Face,” in 2014, when I was in my mid-20s and had just emerged from nearly four years of treatment for leukemia. I had imagined life ...

CFP: Seminar at the American Comparative Literature Association’s 2014 Annual Conference, Mar. 20-23, New York University. This seminar invites papers on visual and written accounts produced within ...