Testament of youth

by Vera Brittain

WHEN THE Great War broke out, it came to me not as a superlative tragedy, but as an interruption of the most exasperatin...

20 Years at Hull House

by Jane Addams

ON THE THEORY that our genuine impulses may be connected with our childish experiences, that one's bent may be tracked b...

Ambedkar

by B. R. Ambedkar

How to write an autobiographical novel

by Alexander Chee

Palm Sunday

by Kurt Vonnegut

I AM A MEMBER of what I believe to be the last recognizable generation of full-time, life-time American novelists.

The vicar's daughter

by George MacDonald

I think that is the way my father would begin.

The Aleph and other stories, 1933-1969

by Jorge Luis Borges

Moments of being

by Virginia Woolf

This collection of autobiographical writings by Virginia Woolf brings together unpublished material selected from the Wo...

An autobiographical study

by Sigmund Freud

Reflections

by Walter Benjamin

Now let me call back those who introduced me to the city.

Fates Worse than Death

by Kurt Vonnegut

Here we have a sequel, not that anyone has clamored for one, to a book called Palm Sunday (1980), a collection of essays...

Autobiographical notes

by Albert Einstein

Here I sit in order to write, at the age of sixty-seven, something like my own obituary.

Eastern Sun, Winter Moon

by Gary Paulsen

Mother and I spent the war years in Chicago.

The life and letters of Charles Darwin

by Charles Darwin

THE earliest records of the family show the Darwins to have been substantial yeomen residing on the northern borders of ...

I wonder as I wander

by Langston Hughes

When I was twenty-seven the stock-market crash came.

The Hermit in Paris

by Italo Calvino, Martin McLaughlin

I do not think that those of us who - in the field of literature - are Turinese by adoption are very numerous.

Autobiographical writings

by Hermann Hesse

The Young Ardizzone; An Autobiographical Fragment

by Edward Ardizzone

Life, in Pictures

by Will Eisner

Gemini

by Nikki Giovanni