On Life-Writing offers a sampling of approaches to the study of life-writing. The collection brings together eminent scholars and writers to reflect on specific

Our lives are increasingly on display in public, but the ethical issues involved in presenting such revelations remain largely unexamined. How can life writing

First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

In readings that move from personal diaries and personal letters through autobiography and biography that assumes a public readership, and finally to the essay,

On the surface, the use of photography in autobiography appears to have a straightforward purpose: to illustrate and corroborate the text. But in the wake of po