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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 ...

The private lives of presidents and princes, romantic affairs, meditations on grief, awkward coming-of-age stories, or an inside look at Hollywood: the best autobiographies tell someone else’s story ...

Stanford University Press, 650 pages, $70. ‘This is the Life Story of Judah Aryeh…. Few and evil have been the days of my life in this world… on Monday the 28th day of Nissan — corresponding to the ...

Omar Ibn Said was 37 years old when he was taken from his West African home and transported to Charleston, South Carolina, as a slave in the 1800s. Now, his one-of-a-kind autobiographical manuscript ...

A number of reviews have challenged the idea that Hope: the Autobiography of Pope Francis is in fact an autobiography. The Irish Times reviewer suggested that “it is some recollections from his life ...