“The moon is a dead body, having nothing but reflected light: but it can blot out the sun,” writes Michael Holroyd, explaining why people often fear becoming the subject of biographies. “Whenever a ...

Here's how writing my autobiography redefined my purpose.

Much has been written about the therapeutic effects of reading. Carmen Martin Gaite, for example, expressed her views on the subject in 1989. “Reading provides insight into a secret world that ...

Throughout the year the readers of biography and autobiography had much the best of it. Whether writing about their own lives or the lives of others, these authors not only seemed to have more to say ...

‘WHAT is biography for? What useful purpose does it serve? Why should one write it? What is its actual importance in the field of literature? Above all, what is autobiography for, and what proper ...

MR MCPARTLIN: Hello, I’m Mr McPartlin, and today we’re checking out the similarities and differences between biographies and autobiographies. Biography and autobiography. These words might look and ...

New York: Harper & Brothers. 1924. 8vo. 2 vols. $10.00. THOSE who read the considerable portions of Mark Twain’s Autobiography published in the North American Review a number of years ago will look ...

In exploring what we are talking about when we talk about a film as the selfprojection of a filmmaker, this introduction suggests film's potential for not only recrafting the act of ...