All such self-portraiture dates from ancient times, of course. One of the greatest examples of autobiography is Benvenuto Cellini’s Life, a Renaissance masterpiece, full of quarrels, passions, ...

It was a literary rarity; an "autobiography" written by someone else, an intimate look into the life of an internationally known man composed during the very period he was most famous. One other thing ...

‘To be a biographer you must tie yourself up in lies, concealments, hypocrisies,” Freud wrote to Arnold Zweig in 1936. “Biographical truth is not to be had, and even if it were to be had, we could not ...

‘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 ...

"Autobiography of a Yogi," penned by Paramahansa Yogananda which was first published in 1946, is a spiritual classic which has touched the lives of millions of readers across the globe. Not only is it ...

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 ...