Science fiction author Robert A Heinlein once wrote: Autobiography is usually honest but never truthful. An autobiography is the story of a person’s life. It is different to a diary, which is ...

IN 1999 PAUL Auster instigated the National Story Project in America. The idea was that people would submit anecdotes and other factual accounts which 'defied our expectations about the world ... in ...

What the title of this paper suggests – that 'Europe' could be a metaphor of autobiography – may meet with an immediate rebuttal. The revaluation of autobiography since the 1980s owes a lot to the ...

Summary: Autobiographical essays; an obituary; awards; letters from the Carnegie Institute, the Society of Illustrators, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Milch ...

Marginalized groups in all periods use the essay to assert or to complicate notions of identity. Lopate has cast his net intentionally wide, embracing critical, personal, political, philosophical, ...

Courtesy of Wikipedia Ayelet Waldman (December 11, 1964) is an Israeli-American novelist and essayist. She has written seven ...

[colophon]. `The Engraver’s Cut. Wood engravings of the artist’s own choice each printed from the block, prefaced by an autobiographical essay, and intended to represent the finest of the contemporary ...

Twentieth-century critics have opposed the supposed objectivity of the essay to the letter and diary as private, self-expressive, and autobiographical genres. But this was a modern development. From ...