The Modern Library

Autobiographies and memoirs by novelists chosen in this book

Chinua Achebe

Home and Exile 2000

Martin Amis

Experience 2000

Kingsley Amis

Memoirs 1991

J. G. Ballard

Miracles of Life: Shanghai to Shepperton 2008

Julian Barnes

Nothing to be Frightened of 2008

Sybille Bedford

Quicksands: A Memoir 2005

Elizabeth Bowen

Seven Winters 1942

Bowen’s Court 1942

John Cheever

The Journals of John Cheever 1991

Agatha Christie

Autobiography 1977

Joan Didion

The Year of Magical Thinking 2005

Isak Dinesen

Out of Africa 1937

Anthony Burgess

Little Wilson and Big God 1987

You’ve Had Your Time 1990

John Fowles

The Journals Volume 1 1949–1965 2003

The Journals Volume 2 1965–1990 2006

Janet Frame

To the Is-Land 1983

An Angel at My Table 1984

The Envoy from Mirror City 1985

Graham Greene

A Sort of Life 1971

Ways of Escape 1980

Shirley Hazzard

Greene on Capri: A Memoir 2000

Roy Heath

Shadows Round the Moon: Caribbean Memoirs 1990

Joseph Heller

Now and Then: From Coney Island to Here 1998

Ernest Hemingway

A Moveable Feast 1964

P. D. James

Time to be in Earnest 2000

Margaret Laurence

Dance on the Earth 1990

Rosamond Lehmann

The Swan in the Evening 1967

Doris Lessing

Under My Skin, Volume 1 of my Autobiography 1994

Walking in the Shade, Volume 2 of my Autobiography 1996

David Lodge

The Year of Henry James 2006

Mary McCarthy

Memoirs of a Catholic Girlhood 1957

How I Grew 1987

Intellectual Memoirs, New York 1936–1938 1992

John McGahern

Memoir 2005

David Malouf

12 Edmonstone Street 1985

Frank Moorhouse

Martini: A Memoir 2005

R. K. Narayan

My Days 1975

Vladimir Nabokov

Speak, Memory 1951

(new edition 1966)

Sylvia Plath

The Journals of Sylvia Plath 1982

Anthony Powell

Infants of the Spring 1978

Messengers of the Day 1978

Faces in My Time 1980

The Strangers All Are Gone 1982

Published as one volume: To Keep the Ball Rolling 1983

V. S. Pritchett

The Cab at the Door 1968

Midnight Oil 1971

Philip Roth

The Facts: A Novelist’s Autobiography 1989

Frank Sargeson

Once is Enough 1972

More Than Enough 1975

Never Enough 1978

Published as one volume: Sargeson 1981

Vikram Seth

Two Lives 2005

Alan Sillitoe

Life Without Armour 1995

Kushwant Singh

Truth, Love and a Little Malice 2002

Wole Soyinka

Ake: The Years of Childhood

Ibadan: The Penkelemes Years: A Memoir 1946–1965

Muriel Spark

Curriculum Vitae — Autobiography 1992

Robert Stone

Prime Green: Remembering the Sixties 2007

William Styron

Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness 1991

William Trevor

Excursions in the Real World: Memoirs 1994

John Updike

Self-Consciousness: Memoirs 1989

Evelyn Waugh

A Little Learning 1964

Eudora Welty

One Writer’s Beginnings 1984

Tobias Wolff

This Boy’s Life 1989

In Pharoah’s Army 1995