He rated Alexander's work highly enough to base the character of the doctor who saves the protagonist in ' Eyeless in Gaza ' ( an experimental form of autobiographical work ) on F. M.

Since Alan Ayckbourn's plays started becoming established in the West End, interviewers have raised the question of whether his work is autobiographical.

Augustine ( 354 – 430 ) applied the title Confessions to his autobiographical work, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau used the same title in the 18th century, initiating the chain of confessional and sometimes racy and highly self-critical, autobiographies of the Romantic era and beyond.

The first autobiographical work in Islamic society was written in the late 11th century, by Abdallah ibn Buluggin, last Zirid king of Granada.

At the end of the work, Bede added a brief autobiographical note ; this was an idea taken from Gregory of Tours ' earlier History of the Franks.

Instead he believes his work, especially his earlier more autobiographical poems, are rooted in a changing country which echoes the Welshness of the past and the Anglicisation of the new industrial nation: " rural and urban, chapel-going and profane, Welsh and English, Unforgiving and deeply compassionate.

More concerned with the literary nature of Orwell ’ s work, he sought explanations for Orwell's character and treated his first-person writings as autobiographical.

She was at her most autobiographical in Looking Backwards, part of her final printed work Impressions of Theophrastus Such.

Oxfordians believe the title ( Shake-Speares Sonnets ) suggests a finality indicating that it was a completed body of work with no further sonnets expected, and consider the differences of opinion among Shakespearean scholars as to whether the Sonnets are fictional or autobiographical to be a serious problem facing orthodox scholars.

Whether these poems are meant to be autobiographical is not known, although elements of other parts of Sappho's life do make appearances in her work, and it would be compatible with her style to have these intimate encounters expressed poetically, as well.

During the harsh winter of 1798 – 99, Wordsworth lived with Dorothy in Goslar, and, despite extreme stress and loneliness, he began work on an autobiographical piece later titled The Prelude.

In 1804, he began expanding this autobiographical work, having decided to make it a prologue rather than an appendix to the larger work he planned.

It originally appeared in Book VI of the first part ( finished in 1767, published in 1782 ) of Rousseau's putative autobiographical work, Les Confessions.

She always made it clear that, whilst her life, which included a spell of severe mental illness, contributed to the themes contained within her work, she did not write explicitly autobiographical poetry.

The story behind this work relates to Berlioz himself and can be considered somewhat autobiographical.

The Great Fire of London ( 1989 ), The Loop ( 1993 ), and Mathematics ( 2012 ) are the first three volumes of a long, experimental, autobiographical work known as " the project " ( or " the minimal project "), and the only volumes of " the project ", at present, to have been translated into English.

Shute gives a detailed account of the episode in his 1954 autobiographical work, Slide Rule.

Bennett's distinctive, expressive voice ( which bears a strong Leeds accent ) and the sharp humour and evident humanity of his writing have made his readings of his work very popular, especially the autobiographical writings.

She was the author of many novels, plays, films, interviews, essays and short fiction, including her best-selling, apparently autobiographical work L ' Amant ( 1984 ), translated into English as The Lover, which describes her youthful affair with a Chinese man.

* Richard Marcinko in his autobiographical work Rogue Warrior notes one of his men was given the call sign " Prince Valiant ", or PV for short as he had a hairstyle like the comic's protagonist.

As Crumb got older, his comic work became more autobiographical.

He is best known for his works A Long Day ’ s Dying ( his first work, published in 1950 ); The Book of Bebb, a tetralogy based on the character Leo Bebb published in 1979 ; Godric, a first person narrative of the life of the medieval saint, and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 1981 ; Brendan, a second novel narrating a saint ’ s life, published in 1987 ; Listening to Your Life: Daily Meditations with Frederick Buechner ( 1992 ); and his autobiographical works The Sacred Journey ( 1982 ), Now and Then ( 1983 ), Telling Secrets ( 1991 ), and The Eyes of the Heart: Memoirs of the Lost and Found ( 1999 ).

* Rivethead: Tales From the Assembly Line is an autobiographical book by Ben Hamper on life and work in the GM plant, with a foreword by Michael Moore.

One of his first efforts was the 1977 Die Konsequenz, a b / w 16 mm adaptation of Alexander Ziegler's autobiographical novel of homosexual love, a movie considered " one of the best ` 70s gay dramas ".

" After alleged opposition to the dark lyrics of one of his contributions, the autobiographical "' Til I Die " ( a song demoed in 1969 and largely recorded in 1970 ), Wilson was reported to have lost interest in the group once more, conceding leadership of the sessions to his youngest brother.

He wrote many comedies ( Der König von Crucina, 1892 ; Bubi, 1912, with G. Meyrink ), tales and novels ( Soldatengeschichten, 2 voll., 1904 ; Der Ehegarten, 1913, Der Schnaps, der Rauchtabak und die verfluchte Liebe, 1908 ; Die Panduren, 1935 ) and autobiographical books ( Irrfahrten eines Humoristen 1914 – 1919, 1920 ; Roda Rodas Roman, 1925 ).

* Antes que mueran ( Before They Die, 1944 ), autobiographical work

On May 10, 2012 her first book, Lizz Free or Die was published by Riverhead Hardcover ; it is a collection of autobiographical essays on her life.

Dreams Die Hard is an autobiographical book written in 1982 by David Harris, a prominent anti-Vietnam War activist during the 1960s.

As described in the David Harris 1982 autobiographical book Dreams Die Hard, Sweeney succumbed to mental illness and became paranoid and delusional, believing that Lowenstein was the central figure in an elaborate plot against him.

His other works include Münchener Bilderbogen ( 1879 ), an autobiographical sketch of his Munich career, Die Amazone, an art novel of considerable merit ( 1869 ), translations of several of Shakespeare's comedies, and several writings dealing with questions of practical dramaturgy.

In 1920, he was active as a dramaturg at the working class theater Die neue Bühne (" The New Stage "), until in 1927, he realized a literary breakthrough with his autobiographical oeuvre Wir sind Gefangene (" We are prisoners "), which allowed him to live as a freelance author.

His autobiographical trilogy " Die Kumiaks " ( 1934, 1952, 1959 ) and autobiography " Meine Jugend " ( 1947 ) depict vivid scenes of the life of German working families in Silesia and the Ruhr Area.

See the autobiographical Aus dem Leben eines alten Professors ( Leipzig and Darmstadt, 1848 ), to which was added in the year of his death Paralipomena der Lebenskunde eines alten Professors ( Frankfurt, 1858 ); also Starck, Friederich Kreuzer, sein Bildungsgang und seine bleibende Bedeutung ( Heidelberg, 1875 ).

If such revelations damaged the reputation of van der Post's autobiographical books, which were sometimes seen as inspirational vindications of Jung's ideas on the meaning and " pattern " in our lives, but which had depended for their impact on a sense of the author's integrity, they nevertheless left untouched van der Post's years as a POW and the two powerful books based on that experience, as well as his conservation work.

See JD Guigniaut, Notice historique sur la vie et les travaux de Carl Benedict Hase ( Paris, 1867 ); articles in Nouvelle Biographie generale and Allgemeine deutsche Biographie ; and a collection of autobiographical letters, Briefe von der Wanderung und aus Paris, edited by O Heine ( 1894 ), containing a vivid account of Hase's journey, his enthusiastic impressions of Paris and the hardships of his early life.

Most of Hackländer's very numerous works have remained unreprinted, but a handful have lasted into, or been revived in, more recent times, including: two collections of fairy stories, Der Leibschneider der Zwerge and Weihnachtsmärchen ; the travel book Reise in den Orient, as well as some pieces on the Rhine included with works by other authors in Rheinfahrt ; and two of the many autobiographical works, Handel und Wandel, which describes in lightly fictionalised form his dissatisfied early life as cheap labour in a small shop, and Friedrich Wilhelm Hackländer, ein Preusse in Schwaben, which deals with his experiences in Württemberg.

* Long Walk to Freedom ( book ), a 1995 autobiographical book by Nelson Mandela

My Bondage and My Freedom is an autobiographical slave narrative written by Frederick Douglass and published in 1855.

Long Walk to Freedom is an autobiographical work written by South African President Nelson Mandela, and published in 1995 by Little Brown & Co.

In an autobiographical note, Viguerie wrote that in 1961 he became executive secretary of the conservative youth group Young Americans for Freedom: " Since 1965, owner of direct marketing / advertising companies such as American Target Advertising.