"Boy (book) Boy: Tales of Childhood (1984) is an autobiographical book by British writer Roald Dahl. It describes his life from birth until leaving school, focusing on living conditions in Britain in the 1920s and 1930s, the public school system at the time, and how his childhood experiences led him to writing as a career. It ends with his first job, working for Royal Dutch Shell. His autobiography continues in the book ""Going Solo"". An expanded edition titled More About Boy was published in 2008, featuring the full original text and illustrations with additional stories, letters, and photographs. Roald Dahl's"
"A Small Boy and Others A Small Boy and Others is a book of autobiography by Henry James published in 1913. The book covers James' earliest years and discusses his intellectually active family, his intermittent schooling, and his first trips to Europe. This memoir tells of a precocious boy who loved the sights and sounds of his childhood but felt reticent about full participation in life. The note is sounded from the first chapters, as James recounts the limitations—and rewards—of the child he was: ""For there was the very pattern and measure of all he was to demand: just to"
"the narrator's soul-searching about his homosexuality continues... It has been suggested that ""A Boy's Own Story"" combines elements of J.D. Salinger's ""The Catcher in the Rye"" and Oscar Wilde's ""De Profundis"". The book has been called ""a touchstone in gay culture just as Christopher Isherwood’s ""Goodbye to Berlin"" was in the 30s, Larry Kramer’s ""Faggots"" in the 70s"". A Boy's Own Story A Boy’s Own Story is a 1982 semi-autobiographical novel by Edmund White. ""A Boy’s Own Story"" is the first of a trilogy of novels, describing a boy’s coming of age and documenting a young man’s experience of homosexuality"
"A Boy's Own Story A Boy’s Own Story is a 1982 semi-autobiographical novel by Edmund White. ""A Boy’s Own Story"" is the first of a trilogy of novels, describing a boy’s coming of age and documenting a young man’s experience of homosexuality in the 1950s in Cincinnati, Chicago and Michigan. The trilogy continued with ""The Beautiful Room Is Empty"" (1988) and ""The Farewell Symphony"" (1997), which brought the setting up to the 1990s. Although all three share a number of themes and are frequently considered at least partly autobiographical, they do not tell a linear story in the manner of"
"Childhood (novel) Childhood (pre-reform Russian: ; post-reform ) is the first published novel by Leo Tolstoy, released under the initials L. N. in the November 1852 issue of the popular Russian literary journal ""The Contemporary"". It is the first in a series of three novels and is followed by ""Boyhood"" and ""Youth"". Published when Tolstoy was just twenty-three years old, the book was an immediate success, earning notice from other Russian novelists including Ivan Turgenev, who heralded the young Tolstoy as a major up-and-coming figure in Russian literature. Childhood is an exploration of the inner life of a young boy,"
"a parent. These tales usually culminate in some sort of emotional catharsis, redemption or escape from the abuse or situation. They are often written in the first person. Most critics trace the beginning of the genre to ""A Child Called ""It"""", a 1995 memoir by American Dave Pelzer, in which he details the outrageous abuse he claims to have suffered at the hands of his alcoholic mother, and two subsequent books which continue the story. Pelzer's three books—all recovery narratives dealing with his childhood—created considerable controversy, including doubt as to the veracity of the claims. While the books spent a"
"of Dahl's birth, his letters to his mother were abridged and broadcast as BBC Radio 4's ""Book of the Week"". Dahl wrote about his time at St Peter's in his autobiography ""Boy: Tales of Childhood"". From 1929, when he was 13, Dahl attended Repton School in Derbyshire. Dahl disliked the hazing and described an environment of ritual cruelty and status domination, with younger boys having to act as personal servants for older boys, frequently subject to terrible beatings. His biographer Donald Sturrock described these violent experiences in Dahl's early life. Dahl expresses some of these darker experiences in his writings,"
"Le Petit Chose Le Petit Chose (1868) translated into English as ""Little Good-For-Nothing"" (1878, Mary Neal Sherwood) and ""Little What's-His-Name"" (1898, Jane Minot Sedgwick)) is an autobiographical memoir by French author Alphonse Daudet. Taking its title from the author's nickname, it recounts Daudet's early years from childhood, through boarding school and finally to Paris and his first successes as an author. It was Daudet's first published, though not first written, work. Canadian author Yann Martel (""Life of Pi""), in talking about his most memorable childhood book, recalled ""Le Petit Chose"", saying that he read it when he was ten years"
"The Story of a Bad Boy The Story of a Bad Boy (1870) is a semi-autobiographical novel by American writer Thomas Bailey Aldrich, fictionalizing his experiences as a boy in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The book is considered the first in the ""bad boy"" genre of literature, though the text's opening lines admit that he was ""not such a very bad, but a pretty bad boy"". ""Tom Bailey"" is born in the fictitious town of Rivermouth, New Hampshire, but moves to New Orleans with his family when he is 18 months old. In his boyhood, his father wants him to be"
"Childhood Memories (book) Childhood Memories (also known as Recollections of Childhood, Memories of My Childhood or Memories of My Boyhood; , ) is one of the main literary contributions of Romanian author Ion Creangă. The largest of his two works in the memoir genre, it includes some of the most recognizable samples of first-person narratives in Romanian literature, and is considered by critics to be Creangă's masterpiece. Structured into separate chapters written over several years (from 1881 to ca. 1888), it was partly read in front of the ""Junimea"" literary club in Iași. While three of the total four section"
"impressed. He once wrote to his wife Livy, ""I started to mark the Story of a Bad Boy, but for the life of me I could not admire the volume much."" Scholar Andrew Levy suggests that Twain was downplaying his interest in the book and was driven to disdain it in private due to ""a competitive pique"". Twain later determined that Aldrich was the wittiest man in the past seven centuries. The Story of a Bad Boy The Story of a Bad Boy (1870) is a semi-autobiographical novel by American writer Thomas Bailey Aldrich, fictionalizing his experiences as a boy"
"published in 1957, the third in 1960, and the fourth, which was unfinished, was published posthumously in 1977. The first two were made into films, directed by Yves Robert. Souvenirs d'enfance Souvenirs d'enfance (""Souvenirs of infancy"", ""Childhood memories"") is a series of autobiographical novels by French filmmaker and ""académicien"", Marcel Pagnol (1895–1974). ""Souvenirs d'enfance"" comprises four volumes covering the years from his birth in 1895 to about 1910, which were spent in Marseille, with family summer holidays in La Treille, about ten kilometres (six miles) away. The four volumes in order are ""La Gloire de mon père"" (""My Father's Glory"");"
"Souvenirs d'enfance Souvenirs d'enfance (""Souvenirs of infancy"", ""Childhood memories"") is a series of autobiographical novels by French filmmaker and ""académicien"", Marcel Pagnol (1895–1974). ""Souvenirs d'enfance"" comprises four volumes covering the years from his birth in 1895 to about 1910, which were spent in Marseille, with family summer holidays in La Treille, about ten kilometres (six miles) away. The four volumes in order are ""La Gloire de mon père"" (""My Father's Glory""); ""Le Château de ma mère"" (""My Mother's Castle""); ""Le Temps des secrets"" (""The Time of Secrets""); and ""Le Temps des amours"" (""The Time of Love""). The first two were"
"Notes of a Son and Brother Notes of a Son and Brother is an autobiography by Henry James published in 1914. The book covers James' early manhood and tells of ""the obscure hurt"" that kept him out of the Civil War, his first efforts at writing fiction, and the early death of his beloved cousin, Minny Temple, from tuberculosis. In this second installment of his autobiography James begins to use family letters, especially those of his brother William and his father Henry James, Sr. Scholarship has shown that James altered the letters with revisions of his own. The book covers"
"entertaining."" The Early Asimov The Early Asimov or, Eleven Years of Trying is a 1972 collection of short stories by Isaac Asimov. Each story is accompanied by commentary by the author, who gives details about his life and his literary achievements in the period in which he wrote the story, effectively amounting to a sort of autobiography for the years 1938 to 1949. (The book was followed by ""Before the Golden Age"" in 1974 and ""Buy Jupiter and Other Stories"" in 1975, which also included autobiographical material.) The book is dedicated to John W. Campbell, the editor who bought many"
"The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid is a 2006 memoir by best-selling travel writer Bill Bryson. The book delves into Bryson's past, telling of his youth growing up in Des Moines, Iowa, during the 1950s and early 1960s. It also reveals the backstory between himself and Stephen Katz, who appeared in ""A Walk in the Woods"" and ""."" Bryson also describes and comments on American life in the 1950s. The title of the book comes from an imaginary alter-ego Bryson invented for himself in his childhood, who has the ability"
"A Boy's Will A Boy's Will is a poetry collection by Robert Frost. It is Frost's first commercially published book of poems. Frost admitted that much of the book was autobiographical. As the proof sheets were printed in January 1913, he wrote the poems were ""pretty near being the story of five years"" of his life. Specifically, Frost noted that the first poem of the book, ""Into My Own"", expressed how he turned away from people and ""Tuft of Flowers"" showed how he ""came back to them"". In fact, some of the poems were written as early as two decades"
"himself. Jung wrote the first three chapters (about his childhood and early adulthood). In the introduction to the book Aniela Jaffé noted: “One morning he informed me that he wanted to set down his recollections of his childhood directly. By this time he had already told me a good many of his earliest memories, but there were still great gaps in the story. This decision was as gratifying as it was unexpected, for I knew how great a strain writing was for Jung. At his advanced age he would not undertake anything of the sort unless he felt it was"
"a four-year-old boy from Harlem, there are seven characters: ""Little Man Little Man: A Story of Childhood"" was reviewed as ""experimental, enigmatic picture book that straddled the line between children’s and adult literature,"" and after its initial publication in 1976, it soon went out of print. In 2018, Duke University Press published a new edition, with an afterword by Aisha Karefa-Smart, Baldwin's niece. Little Man Little Man: A Story of Childhood Little Man Little Man: A Story of Childhood is a 1976 children's novel written by James Baldwin and Yoran Cazac TJ recounts what he experiences while playing ball outside."
"The Original Sin (book) The Original Sin is Anthony Quinn's first autobiography. The full title is The Original Sin: A Self-Portrait by Anthony Quinn, and it was first published in October 1972 by Little, Brown & Company, Boston & Toronto with . Quinn's autobiography is a sweeping and very personal account of his life. His story is that of a man who has difficulty accepting unconditional love (this is the original sin) and the death of his son at an early age. He explores his past and reveals his darkest feelings with his psychiatrist and the reasons why he was"
"under the title Golden Boy. The book appeared in the Reader's Digest Condensed Books series. Gweilo: Memories of a Hong Kong Childhood Gweilo: Memoirs of a Hong Kong Childhood is an autobiography by author Martin Booth. It was published in 2004 shortly before he died. The book discusses the author's childhood in Hong Kong. The term """"gweilo"""" literally means ""ghost man"" in Cantonese, but has been applied as a racial epithet for Caucasians (as in white ghosts). The book is rich with vivid descriptions of the author's explorations of Kowloon and Hong Kong, his learning of Cantonese and his numerous"
"in Victorian Britain for the first time. Whishaw was soon inspired to try his hand at writing and had his semi-autobiography, ""Out of Doors in Tsarland: A Record of the Seeings and Doings of a Wanderer in Russia"", published in 1893. A year later, his wrote his first children's novel, ""Boris the Bear-Hunter"", followed by ten more novels between 1895 and 1898, including his first collection of English ""schoolboy"" stories, ""Gubbins Minor and Some Other Fellows"". These and other stories were published as popular serials in many boys' adventure magazines throughout his career. His schoolboy stories were a mix of"
"""New York Magazine"", and after graduation became a contributing editor. In 1973, Tobias wrote ""The Best Little Boy in the World"", an autobiography in which he spoke of his experiences as a gay boy and young man. He published it under the pen name ""John Reid"" to avoid the repercussions of being openly gay; the book was republished in 1998 under his real name to coincide with a sequel, ""The Best Little Boy in the World Grows Up"". Although he has never held a job in the investment industry, he has written extensively on the subject, including ""The Only Investment"
"Pelzer, published his own autobiography, ""A Brother's Journey"", that detailed his experiences. Paraphrased, Pelzer said in the afterword of his book that his objectives for his story was to show how a parent can become abusive and how the human spirit can triumph and survive. Pelzer's first book, ""A Child Called ""It"""" was published in 1995 and describes the abuse Pelzer suffered in his childhood. His second book, ""The Lost Boy: A Foster Child's Search for the Love of a Family"" was published shortly after in 1997. The book covered Pelzer's teen years. The third book in his series, ""A"
"sugar beet farm. Paulsen has written some fragmented autobiographical works, such as ""Eastern Sun, Winter Moon: An Autobiographical Odyssey"". The book, which is written in first person, begins when Paulsen was seven, living in Chicago with his mother. Paulsen described several traumatic occurrences that transpired during the three years that are chronicled by the book. For example, one day while his mother was napping, Gary sneaked outside to play. There a vagrant snatched him and apparently attempted to molest him, but his mother suddenly appeared on the scene and beat the man to death. Paulsen reported his mother's many adulterous"
"significantly longer than the stories in his first collection. Wolff chronicled his early life in two memoirs. ""This Boy's Life"" (1989), winner of the ""Los Angeles Times"" Book Award for Biography, is devoted to the author's adolescence in Seattle and Newhalem, a remote company town in the North Cascade mountains of Washington. The memoir describes the nomadic and uncertain life Wolff and his mother led after his parents divorced. His mother's subsequent marriage to a man who was revealed as an abusive husband and stepfather deeply affected their lives. ""In Pharaoh's Army"" (1994) records Wolff's U.S. Army tour of duty"
"The Early Asimov The Early Asimov or, Eleven Years of Trying is a 1972 collection of short stories by Isaac Asimov. Each story is accompanied by commentary by the author, who gives details about his life and his literary achievements in the period in which he wrote the story, effectively amounting to a sort of autobiography for the years 1938 to 1949. (The book was followed by ""Before the Golden Age"" in 1974 and ""Buy Jupiter and Other Stories"" in 1975, which also included autobiographical material.) The book is dedicated to John W. Campbell, the editor who bought many of"
"This Boy's Life This Boy's Life: A Memoir (1989) is by American author Tobias Wolff. It describes the author's adolescence as he wanders the continental United States with his mother, after his parents had separated when he was five. The first leg of their journey takes them from Florida to Utah, where his mother hopes to get rich quick finding uranium, after fleeing an abusive partner. Eventually Wolff's mother becomes involved with Dwight Hansen, and they settle in Concrete, Washington, north of Seattle in the North Cascade Mountains. While it has much natural beauty, the small company town in where"
"W, or the Memory of Childhood W, or the Memory of Childhood (), is a semi-autobiographical work of fiction by Georges Perec, published in 1975. Perec's novel consists of alternating chapters of autobiography and of a fictional story, divided into two parts. The autobiographical thread is a collection of uncertain memories, as well as descriptions of photos which preserve moments from Perec's childhood. The memories in the first part of the book lead up to Perec's separation from his mother when he was evacuated in the Second World War. The second part recollects his life as an evacuee. The adult"
"schoolteacher who suffered ill-health and died in 1910 when he was only seventeen. After leaving school at sixteen, he started work as a clerk in the Customs and Excise branch of the Civil Service. In his first volume of autobiography he recounts the physicality of his father, the intelligence of his mother, his resourceful older brother, privations, and the difficult relationship of his ill-matched parents. His first book of poems, ""The Flood of Life"", was published in 1917 when he was 24, but he remained in the Civil Service until 1933, when he left to write full-time at the age"
"Roald Dahl's ""Boy"" and ""Going Solo"" albeit in a more concise form. It discusses the events in his life that led him to become a writer, including a meeting with a famous writer, who helped to launch his career. The story is about Dahl's school and all the teachers, until after the publication of his first story. This is an autobiographical account of Dahl's time as a fighter pilot in the Second World War, particularly the details of how Dahl was injured and eventually forced to leave the Mediterranean arena. The original version of the story was written for C."
"of Information. During this time he wrote his first novel, ""Guiana Boy"". Published in 1960 (re-issued as ""Guyana Boy"" by Peepal Tree Press in 2002), this was the first novel by a Guyanese of Indian descent. It draws on his own life as the son of sugar workers to portray a world lacking in freedom, but where the workers struggle to maintain their identity as Madrassis in their rice plots, their fishing expeditions and in the feasts and festivities their ancestors brought from India. ""The Caribbean Review of Books"" has described the novel as ""an intimate, clear-eyed portrait of Indo-Guyanese"
"fun, however."" My Life as a 10-Year-Old Boy My Life as a 10-Year-Old Boy is an autobiography written by Nancy Cartwright. First published in September 2000 by Hyperion, it details Cartwright's career, particularly her experiences as the voice of Bart Simpson on ""The Simpsons"" and contains insights on the show, diary entries and anecdotes about her encounters with various guest stars. Critics commented that the book seemed to be aimed at fans of ""The Simpsons"" rather than a more general audience. Other criticisms included the simplicity of the writing and a lack of interesting stories. In 2004, Cartwright adapted the"