Read Short Biography / Autobiography Stories
listed below in order of the date they were published, with new stories first.
James Baldwin, an American ex-patriate living in France for many years, was one of the seminal black writers of the mid-twentieth century.
Little-known in today’s literary society, John Berryman was one of the greatest confessional poets of the psychedelic sixties.
A few clever words and tidbits of literary wisdom from a master storyteller.
Abortion was not legal in 1960's UK - resulting in devastation for so many young women
A letter from my mother to my daughter describing her life in England as a young woman in the 1920's and after
How my mother met the love of her life on a train during World War II
The Austrian poet, Rainer Maria Rilke, was an existentialist and mystic long before Sartre, Camus or Hermann Hesse made the concept fashionable.
Are you familiar with the novelist, Honoré Morrow? Born in 1880 she was one of the most remarkable writers of her day.
Born in 1894, e.e. cummings is the sort of modernistic poet you either admire or despise and vilify at every opportunity.