Autobiography and writing

How do I learn to write an autobiography?

Learning to write an autobiography is not so very different from learning to exercise

You need to work to a plan, start slowly, put in the hours, and most importantly, make writing a habit

(Oh, and you have to accept that while you’re building up your writing muscles, the process might hurt a bit!)

What does autobiography mean?

The Introduction describes what autobiography means and compares it to other forms of ‘life-writing’

Autobiographical writing is seen to act as a window on to concepts of self, identity, and subjectivity, and into the ways in which these are themselves determined by time and circumstance

The Autobiography of Charles Darwin is an autobiography by the English naturalist Charles Darwin.

1971 novel by Ernest J. Gaines

The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman is a 1971 novel by Ernest J.
Gaines.
The story depicts the struggles of blacks as seen through the eyes of the narrator, a woman named Jane Pittman.
She tells of the major events of her life from the time she was a young slave girl in the American South at the end of the Civil War.

The Autobiography of Charles Darwin is an autobiography by the English naturalist Charles Darwin.

1971 novel by Ernest J. Gaines