Mark Twain changed the rules of American fiction when, in Huckleberry Finn, he let a redneck kid tell his story in his own dialect. But the brilliant satirist had a hard time figuring out what rules ...

All such self-portraiture dates from ancient times, of course. One of the greatest examples of autobiography is Benvenuto Cellini’s Life, a Renaissance masterpiece, full of quarrels, passions, ...

“Naturally,” Morrissey writes in the most Morrissey of ways in the first paragraph of his autobiography, “my birth almost kills my mother, for my head is too big…” The opening paragraph that contains ...

Last week’s papal letter on immigration to the U.S. bishops captured world headlines, but it was not news that Pope Francis — who is being prayed for as he continues to be hospitalized for bilateral ...