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.

It was followed by an autobiographical film, De unge år: Erik Nietzsche sagaen del 1 ( 2007 ), scripted by von Trier but directed by Jacob Thuesen, which tells the story of von Trier's years as a student at the National Film School of Denmark.

Psychiatrist Paulette Gillig draws a distinction between an " ego state " ( behaviors and experiences possessing permeable boundaries with other such states but united by a common sense of self ) and the term " alters " ( each of which may have a separate autobiographical memory, independent initiative and a sense of ownership over individual behavior ) commonly used in discussions of DID.

In 1927, humorist Frederic Van de Water wrote The Family Flivvers to Frisco, an autobiographical account of him and his wife, a young couple from New York City, piling their belongings and their six-year-old son ( dubbed the “ Supercargo ”) into their Model T Ford and camping their way to San Francisco on the Lincoln Highway, traveling over through twelve states in thirty-seven days.

Shiga's style was autobiographical and depicted states of his mind and sometimes classified as " I Novel " in this sense.

Author Christopher Paolini states that Eragon started out as an autobiographical character.

Goss has noted that while the title ( and the title track lyrics ) are to an extent autobiographical, unlike she states in the music video, she has never attempted suicide.

The Hasheesh Eater is an autobiographical book by Fitz Hugh Ludlow describing the author's altered states of consciousness and philosophical flights of fancy while he was using a cannabis extract.

In reality, his formal education probably began much earlier, as elsewhere in his autobiographical postface, Ge states that he had already begun to write poetry, rhapsodies, and other miscellaneous writings by the age of fourteen or fifteen ( c. 298 ), all of which he later destroyed.

Eckermann includes much autobiographical material and clearly states that his " conversations " are not word-for-word transcriptions, but reconstructions based on memory.

Rheta Grimsley Johnson confirms the physical resemblances, but states that the strip is not autobiographical, noting that they did not have any children, and that there is not a contrast between her personality and that of Johnson, unlike the personality differences in the strip between Arlo and Janis.

Claims that seem to contradict modern beliefs have inspired some to question the book's " autobiographical " character.

Although the book's students were named after children from Hillside and there is a presumably autobiographical character named " Louis the Yard Teacher ," Sachar has said that he draws very little from personal experience, explaining that ".... my personal experiences are kind of boring.

According to some scholars, Howard's conception of Conan and the Hyborian Age may have originated in Thomas Bulfinch's The Outline of Mythology ( 1913 ) which inspired Howard to " coalesce into a coherent whole his literary aspirations and the strong physical, autobiographical elements underlying the creation of Conan.

: It is an autobiographical novel with a difference, using life material to compose a third-person fiction, transformed in an experiment whose tensions are those of memory -- distorting and partial -- checked by a rigorous and sceptical language which probes and finds durable forms underlying the impulses and passions of the subject.

Although he is not represented in Howard's library, nor alluded to in his papers and correspondence, there is a strong likelihood that Howard's conception of the Hyborian Age originated in Thomas Bulfinch's The Outline of Mythology ( 1913 ), acting as a catalyst that enabled Howard to " coalesce into a coherent whole his literary aspirations and the strong physical, autobiographical elements underlying the creation of Conan.

In 1985, the British neo-progressive rock band Marillion achieved their only UK Number One album-and the best-selling album of their career-with Misplaced Childhood, a concept album featuring lyrics by frontman Fish which were partly autobiographical.

The project was set aside because of delays on 1941, but the concept of making a small autobiographical film about childhood would stay with Spielberg.

Written, according to lyricist Bernie Taupin, in chronological order, Captain Fantastic is a concept album that gives an autobiographical glimpse at the struggles John ( Captain Fantastic ) and Taupin ( the Brown Dirt Cowboy ) had in the early years of their musical careers in London ( from 1967 to 1969 ).