Here's how writing my autobiography redefined my purpose.

MR. EDMUND GOSSE, commenting on the lack of literary curiosity in the early years of the seventeenth century, ascribes it to a growing desire for real knowledge, to an increasing seriousness of mind.

The assumption that the autobiography signals the end of a writing career also makes me pause. Here it is, with a drum roll, the final volume before the writer is overshadowed by silence and death, a ...

At this point in her career, Dolly Parton has written several books — two of them autobiographies. But in 1981, the “Down From Dover” singer was nervous about putting out a book about her life. She ...