Reference Books for Research
Autobiographical inscriptions : form, personhood, and the American woman writer of color by Publication Date: 1999
The Literature of Autobiographical Narrative by Publication Date: 2013
Palgrave handbook of auto/biography by Publication Date: 2020
Postcolonial Francophone autobiographies : from Africa to the Antilles by Publication Date: 2011
Reading African American Autobiography : Twenty-First-Century Contexts and Criticism by Publication Date: 2017
Telling Our Stories : Continuities and Divergences in Black Autobiographies by Publication Date: 2005
Biography as a Literary Form
Autobiographies are the subject's self-authored story of their own life. These are often nonfiction, but can be written in literary forms that rely upon prose techniques.
Biographies are nonfiction accounts of a person's life by someone other than the subject. These are often factual accounts, but can be written as narratives.
Memoirs are a form of autobiography. They are considered a form of popular literature because the subject is often a public figure. While these types of books can be complete autobiographies, they usually focus on a person's significant accomplishments or unique experiences and are written in first-person.
Collective biographies are accounts of the lives of a group of people. The goal of these texts are to describe multiple perspectives on the same time period or describe their combined efforts towards a common goal.
Databases
- eBook Central (Proquest) This link opens in a new window
- GALE Literature Search This link opens in a new windowCross search the Gale Artemis Literary Sources : Gale Virtual Reference Library, Dictionary Literary Biography Complete, Literature Resource Center, and Something about the Author
Biographies at the Library
