How Lucy Grealy’s ‘Autobiography of a Face’ helped me cope with cancer

I first read Lucy Grealy’s memoir, “Autobiography of a Face,” in 2014, when I was in my mid-20s and had just emerged from ...
The Atlantic

The Autobiography of a Revolutionist: The Corps of Pages

THE years 1857-61 were years of rich growth in the intellectual forces of Russia. All that had been whispered for the last decade, in the secrecy of friendly meetings, by the generation represented in ...
The New York Times

Can You Ever Really Know a Person? Biographers Keep Trying.

Each age has its own way of drawing the arc of a human life. Ours is concerned with its unpredictability. Credit...Photo illustration by Ricardo Tomas Supported by By Parul Sehgal Parul Sehgal is a ...
The Chosun Ilbo on MSN

Autobiography Writing Becomes Senior Welfare Tool in South Korea

Kim Soondeok, 82 years old, who lives in Gangbuk-gu, Seoul, published an 84-page autobiography last month. The title is *‘A Life with Family: Soondeok’s Journey’*. Kim said, “I thought, ‘What kind of ...