- David Sedaris
David Sedaris (born December 26, 1956) is an American humorist and radio contributor. Much of his humor is autobiographical and self-deprecating, and it often concerns his family life, Greek heritage, various jobs, education, drug use, homosexuality and his life as an expatriate in France with his partner, Hugh. - Neil Simon
Neil Simon (born Marvin Neil Simon July_4, 1927 in The Bronx, New York City), is a Jewish American playwright and screenwriter. He is one of the most reliable hitmakers in Broadway history, as well as one of the most performed playwrights in the world. Simon briefly attended New York University in 1946. Two years later, he quit his job as a mailroom clerk in the Warner Brothers offices in Manhattan to write radio and television scripts with his brother Danny Simon. - J. D. Salinger
Jerome David Salinger (born January 1, 1919) is an American author best known for his 1951 novel "The Catcher in the Rye", as well as his reclusive nature; he has not published any new work since 1965 and has not granted a formal interview since 1980. Raised in Manhattan, New York, Salinger attended several boarding schools, where he began writing short stories. He attended college briefly but dropped out to devote his time to writing, … - Confessions
"Confessions" is the name of a series of thirteen autobiographical books by St. Augustine of Hippo written between AD 397 and AD 398. In modern times, the books are usually published as a single volume known as "The Confessions of St. Augustine" in order to distinguish the book from other books with similar titles such as Jean-Jacques Rousseau's "Confessions". The book tells about his sinful youth and how he converted to Christianity. - Cameron Crowe
Cameron Bruce Crowe (born July 13, 1957) is an Academy Award winning American writer and film director. Before moving into the film industry, Crowe was contributing editor at "Rolling Stone" magazine, for which he still frequently writes. Crowe has made his mark with character-driven, personal films that have been generally hailed as refreshingly original and void of cynicism. - Thomas Wolfe
Thomas Clayton Wolfe was an important American novelist of the 20th century. He wrote four lengthy novels, plus many short stories, dramatic works, and novel fragments. He is known for mixing highly original, poetic, rhapsodical, and impressionistic prose with autobiographical writing. His books, written during the Great Depression, depict the variety and diversity of American culture. - André Gide
André Paul Guillaume Gide was a French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1947. Gide's career spanned from the symbolist movement to the advent of anticolonialism in between the two World Wars. Known for his fiction as well as his autobiographical works, Gide exposes to public view the conflict and eventual reconciliation between the two sides of his personality, split apart by a straightlaced education and a narrow social moralism. - Chazz Palminteri
Chazz Palminteri (b. May 15, 1952) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor and writer, best known for his performances in "The Usual Suspects", "A Bronx Tale" and "Mulholland Falls". - Mircea Eliade
Mircea Eliade was a Romanian historian of religion, fiction writer, philosopher, and professor at the University of Chicago. He was a leading interpreter of religious experience, who established paradigms in religious studies that persist to this day. His theory that "hierophanies" form the basis of religion, splitting the human experience of reality into sacred and profane space and time, has proved influential. - John Mortimer
Sir John Clifford Mortimer CBE QC (born 21 April 1923) is an English barrister turned prolific writer and dramatist. Educated at Harrow School and Brasenose College, Oxford, his oeuvre includes over fifty books, plays, and scripts. The play, "A Voyage Round My Father" (1971) is autobiographical, recounting his experiences as a young barrister and his relationship with his blind father. - Claude McKay
Claude McKay (September 15, 1889 – May 22, 1948) was a Jamaican writer and communist. He was part of the Harlem Renaissance and wrote three novels: "Home to Harlem" (1928), a best-seller which won the Harmon Gold Award for Literature, "Banjo" (1929), and "Banana Bottom" (1933). McKay also authored a collection of short stories, "Gingertown" (1932), and two autobiographical books, … - Laurie Lee
Laurence Edward Alan "Laurie" Lee, MBE was an English poet, novelist, and screenwriter, raised in the village of Slad, Gloucestershire. His most famous work was an autobiographical trilogy which consisted of "Cider with Rosie" (1959), "As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning" (1969) and "A Moment of War" (1991). While the first volume famously recounts his childhood in the idyllic Slad Valley, … - Edmund Gosse
Edmund William Gosse (September 21, 1849 - May 16, 1928) was an English poet, author and critic, the son of Philip Henry Gosse and Emily Bowes. - Zelda Fitzgerald
Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald (July 24, 1900 - March 10, 1948), born Zelda Sayre in Montgomery, Alabama, was the wife of writer F. Scott Fitzgerald, whom she married in 1920. She published an autobiographical novel, "Save Me the Waltz", in 1932. Considered by many of her era to embody the quintessential flapper, Fitzgerald gained notoriety as much for her own exploits and as for her role in inspiring many of her husband's most famous characters, … - Seth
Seth is the pen name of Gregory Gallant (born September 16, 1962), a Canadian comic book artist and writer. Born in Clinton, Ontario, Seth attended the Ontario College of Art in Toronto. Seth's first published comics work was as an illustrator on the Vortex Comics series "Mister X", but he soon moved to his own series, "Palookaville" (published by Drawn and Quarterly), … - Judd Winick
Judd Winick (born February 12, 1970 on Long Island, New York) is an American comic book and comic strip writer/artist famous for his 1994 stint on MTV's "The Real World: San Francisco," as well for his work on such comic books as "Green Lantern", "Green Arrow", and "Pedro and Me", his autobiographical graphic novel about his friendship with "Real World" castmate and AIDS educator Pedro Zamora. - Ruben Santiago-Hudson
Ruben Santiago-Hudson (born November 24 1956) is a Tony Award-winning American actor and playwright. Santiago-Hudson was born in Lackawanna, New York to Alean Hudson and Ruben Santiago, a railroadworker; his father was Puerto Rican and his mother was African American. He graduated from Binghamton University. He wrote "Lackawanna Blues", an autobiographical play in which he portrayed himself and some twenty different characters from his past, … - Richard Grayson
Richard Grayson (1951-) is a writer, political activist and performance artist, most noted for his books of short stories and his satiric runs for public office. Born in Brooklyn, he attended New York public schools and the City University of New York, receiving a Master of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing from Brooklyn College, where he was also an undergraduate. His first stories started appearing in literary magazines in the mid-1970s, and in 1979, … - Aline Kominsky-Crumb
Aline Kominsky-Crumb (born Aline Goldsmith, August 1948, Long Beach, New York) is an underground comix artist, who married into the Crumb family, best known for her autobiographical stories. In these stories she refers to herself as The Bunch, a nickname she was apparently given as a child. She was born to a middle class Jewish family in the Five Towns area of Long Island. - Justin Green
Justin Considine Green (born 1945) is an American cartoonist who pioneered autobiographical comics. He is best known for his 1972 comic book "Binky Brown Meets the Holy Virgin Mary". Green was a key figure in the 1970s generation of underground comics artists who appeared in Art Spiegelman's and Bill Griffith's anthologies "Arcade" and "Young Lust". - Annie Ernaux
Annie Ernaux (born in Lillebonne on September 1, 1940) is a French writer. She won the Renaudot prize in 1984 for her book "La Place", an autobiographical narrative focusing on her relationship with her father and her experiences growing up in a small town in France, and her subsequent process of moving into adulthood and away from her parents' place of origin. As a child, Annie Ernaux lived in Yvetot in Normandy. - Mary Fleener
Mary Fleener (1951-) is an American underground cartoonist, writer and musician from Los Angeles, California. She is a member of the rock band The Wig Titans. Fleener is know for her unique, cubist-like drawing style-which she termed cubismo-and her autobiographical stories, many of which are featured in her series "Slutburger". Among her influences are ancient Egyptian art and the works of Chester Gould ("Dick Tracy"), … - Colley Cibber
Colley Cibber was an English playwright, actor, and Poet Laureate. His status as the first in a long line of actor-managers established his importance in theater history, and his colorful memoir ("Apology for the Life of Colley Cibber") was key in starting the British tradition of rambling autobiographical style. Cibber's works provide valuable documentation of London stage practices for today's historians, … - Jan Kott
Jan Kott (October 27, 1914 - December 23, 2001) was a well-known Polish critic and theoretician of the theatre. Born in Warsaw in 1914, Kott moved to the United States in 1966 and lectured at Yale and Berkeley. A poet, translator, and critic, he was also one of the finest essayists of the Polish school. He died in Santa Monica, California in 2001. - Raymond Radiguet
Raymond Radiguet was a French author. He was born in Saint-Maur, close to Paris, the son of a caricaturist. In 1917 he moved to the city. Soon he would drop out of the "Lycée Charlemagne", where he studied, in order to pursue his interests in journalism and literature. He would associate himself with the Modernist set, befriending Picasso, Max Jacob, Juan Gris and especially Jean Cocteau, who would become his mentor and, according to gossip in Paris at the time, … - Alphonse de Lamartine
Alphonse Marie Louise Prat de Lamartine (October 21, 1790 - February 28, 1869) was a French writer, poet and politician, born in Mâcon into French provincial nobility. He is famous for his partly autobiographical poem, "Le Lac" ("The Lake"), which describes in retrospect the fervent love shared by a couple from the point of view of the bereaved man. Lamartine was masterly in his use of French poetic forms. - Chris Stewart
Chris Stewart was the original drummer and a founding member of Genesis. He is now a farmer and an author. A classmate of Tony Banks and Peter Gabriel at Charterhouse School, Stewart joined them in a school band called The Garden Wall, and they later formed another band with schoolmates Mike Rutherford and Anthony Phillips, called The Anon. This band eventually became Genesis in January 1967. Stewart appears on the band's first 2 singles, … - Gila Almagor
Gila Almagor (born July 22, 1939) is commonly known as the first lady of Israeli stage and film. She was raised in an orphanage, and it was there that she was recognized as a great actress. Since her stage debut at the age of 17 in Habima's production of "The Skin of Our Teeth", she has acted in countless productions both on stage and on the big screen, often in starring roles. She is also a successful author of young adult fiction. - Jack Sheppard
Jack Sheppard was a notorious English robber, burglar and thief of early 18th century London. Born into a poor family, he was apprenticed as a carpenter but took to theft and burglary in 1723, with little more than a year of his training to complete. He was arrested and imprisoned five times in 1724 but escaped four times, making him a notorious public figure, and wildly popular with the poorer classes. Ultimately, he was caught, convicted, and hanged at Tyburn, … - Gower Champion
Gower Champion (June 22 1919 - August 25 1980) was a Tony Award-winning American theatre director, choreographer, and dancer. Born Gower Carlyle Champion in Geneva, Illinois, he was raised in Los Angeles, California, where he graduated from Fairfax High School. He studied dance from an early age and at the age of fifteen toured nightclubs with friend Jeanne Tyler billed as "Gower and Jeanne, America's Youngest Dance Team." During the late 1930s and early 40s, … - Alec Waugh
Alexander Raban Waugh (Alec Waugh, was a British novelist, the elder brother of the better-known Evelyn Waugh. He was married to Virginia Sorenson, author of Newbery Medal-winning "Miracles on Maple Hill". Waugh was born in London, and educated at Sherborne School, a public school in Dorset. The result of his experiences was his first, semi-autobiographical novel, "The Loom of Youth" (1917), which harked back to his schooldays. - Elizabeth Jennings
Elizabeth Jennings was an English poet, noted for her clarity of style and simplicity of literary approach. Her Roman Catholicism coloured much of her work. Jennings was born in Lincolnshire, but her family moved to Oxford when she was six. There she later attended St Anne's College. After graduation, she became a librarian. She is not generally regarded as an innovator. Her work displays a simplicity of metre and rhyme shared with Philip Larkin, … - Guy Bolton
Guy Reginald Bolton (November 23, 1884 - September 6, 1979) was a British-American playwright and writer of musical comedies. Born Guy Reginald Bolton to American parents in Broxbourne, Hertfordshire, England, Bolton studied architecture before beginning his writing career in 1914 with the play "The Rule of Three". Additional plays include "The Fallen Idol", "Nobody Home", "Children", "Polly with a Past", "The Five Million", … - Julie Gregory
Julie Gregory, (born May 16, 1969 in Columbus, Ohio), is the author of "Sickened", an autobiographical account of the Munchausen by proxy (MBP) abuse she allegedly suffered as a child. She also acts as an advocate for children suffering MPB abuse. According to "Sickened", Gregory's mother frequently took her to various doctors, coaching her to act sicker than she was and exaggerating her symptoms, … - Mart Crowley
Mart Crowley (born August 21 1935) is an American playwright. Crowley was born in Vicksburg, Mississippi. After graduating from The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. in 1967, Crowley headed west to Hollywood, where he worked for a number of television production companies before meeting Natalie Wood on the set of her film "Inside Daisy Clover". - Jerome Hill
Jerome Hill (2 March 1905, St. Paul, Minnesota - 21 November 1972, New York City) was an American filmmaker and artist. His short film "La Cartomancienne" (1932) was restored for the DVD collection "Unseen Cinema: Early American Avant Garde Film 1894-1941" released in October 2005. His short documentary "Ski Flight" (1938) with famous skier Otto Lang premiered at Radio City Music Hall on 4 February 1938. - Truddi Chase
Truddi Chase (born near Rochester, New York) is the author of "When Rabbit Howls" (1987), which is often called the first autobiographical account of Multiple Personality Disorder by an individual, rather than by their therapist. (However, see discussion below.) The focus of the book is the internal process the author undergoes as her personalities ("the Troops") become aware of one another and their functions in protecting the mental cores. - Herman Raucher
Herman Raucher (born April 13, 1928 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American author who has written several novels and screenplays, among them the popular "Summer of '42" and "The Great Santini". He was married to Broadway dancer Mary Kathryn Raucher from 1960 until her death in 2002; they had two daughters. Many of his works have autobiographical undertones or are straightforward memoirs. His 1980 book, "There Should Have Been Castles", … - Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (14 September 1934 - 24 April 2002) was an American journalist, essayist and memoirist. She is best known for her autobiographical work, particularly her account of growing up as one of Jehovah's Witnesses, and for her travel writing. - Sven Hassel
Sven Hassel (born April 19, 1917) is a Danish-born soldier and writer who has written pseudo-autobiographical novels based on his experiences in World War II.
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