Dickens began his autobiography in 1847, when he was only 35, but abandoned it and, overcome with memories of his deprivations, a few years later was inspired to write the autobiographical David ...

From Lassie and Trigger to Gentle Ben and Babe The Talking Pig, the true-life stories of cinema’s animal stars are seldom told. Fewer still get to tell the tale themselves. So a frisson of ...

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 ...

“ ALL knowledge,” says the old Chinese proverb, “ is by nature implanted in the mind of a woman ; ” and one cannot run through the presumably complete list of works appended to the reminiscences of ...

Local artist José Guadalupe Garza began drawing as a kid as a way to communicate. As a native Spanish speaker, he couldn’t understand the English being spoken in his classroom. “I felt like a little ...

SAMUEL GOMPERS was born in London in 1850, and died in San Antonio, Texas, in 1924. His family, of Dutch-English Hebrew stock, emigrated to America when he was thirteen. His autobiography is therefore ...

"Autobiography of a Yogi," penned by Paramahansa Yogananda which was first published in 1946, is a spiritual classic which has touched the lives of millions of readers across the globe. Not only is it ...

I’m so dazzled by the richness of the world that I think fiction is not quite catching it,” V.S. Naipaul said some years ago. The “it,” his readers will recognize, is principally the postcolonial ...

If you had any notion that, at 83 years old, Martha Stewart should be slowing down, she's speeding by you in the fast lane. After announcing her 100th cookbook earlier this year, she revealed another ...

Indonesia has selected Makbul Mubarak’s award-winning drama Autobiography as its submission in the Best International Feature category of the Oscars. Selected from a pool of 100 films, Autobiography ...