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.

Edited by Harriet Elinor Smith, et al. University of California Press: 738 pp., $34.95 Having created a quintessentially American brand of humor and style of literature, Mark Twain (1835-1910) can now ...

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(RNS) — When I was a freshman at a Jesuit high school in Los Angeles, my English composition teacher drummed into us the importance of unity, emphasis and coherence. Pope Francis’ new memoir, “Hope: ...

Frankly, who wants to read autobiographies? There are eight billion of us on Earth, all encumbered with our own lives. And the prospect of coming to burden our minds with the lives of others seems ...

Six bottles of Guinness and Joan Littlewood changed Nigel Hawthorne's life forever, the late actor claims in the lively autobiography he wrote while battling cancer and completed just days before ...