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, ...

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“Naturally,” Morrissey writes in the most Morrissey of ways in the first paragraph of his autobiography, “my birth almost kills my mother, for my head is too big…” The opening paragraph that contains ...

LITERARY biography — the lives of writers — is a form of literature clearly deserving a very judicious survey; yet even within the confines of the English language, there has up to now, so far as I am ...