Edited by Angela Thirlwell
Published by the Folio Society and available from Amazon

This deluxe edition of The Folio Anthology of Autobiography was first published in 1994. It is still used as a course book for the M.A. in Biography at the University of Buckingham.

“Thirlwell has drawn on over 800 autobiographies…and has extracted many riches…the felicity of her selections will give a great deal of pleasure, frequently to be renewed.”
Allan Massie, The Saturday Telegraph