On the literary genre spectrum, memoirs and autobiographies are right next to each other. They’re both nonfiction accounts of the author’s personal experience, usually written in first person (i.e.

I was born, the third of seven children, in Medford, Massachusetts, so near to Boston that even as a small boy kicking along side streets to the Washington School, I could see the pencil stub of the ...

Writing an autobiography can lead to profound self-discovery and challenge long-held assumptions. The act of writing promotes reflection, revealing the real impact of experiences and decisions beyond ...

The idea of a memoir that flowed in a canal-straight course was never going to interest Samuel L Clemens, still less his irrepressible alter ego, Mark Twain. Like the river that became his greatest ...

They may now be the least popular type of book, but as recently as 2005, sales of autobiographies were not doing so badly. Last year, autobiographies made up just 0.58% of all book sales, while ...