"The film of tomorrow appears to me as even more personal than an individual and autobiographical novel, like a confession or a diary," he wrote.
He is primarily an author of autobiographical and biographical novels.
The Boy in the Sun (1928) was an autobiographical novel.
Hick, his second feature film as a director, is based on the autobiographical novel of the same name.
His other works included several biographies and an autobiographical novel.
Such works are often regarded as an offshoot of the autobiographical novel.
In Western culture, several autobiographical novels about living with a raccoon have been written, mostly for children.
Though Mantel has used material from her own life, it is not an autobiographical novel.
The narrator has the same name as the author of this autobiographical novel, which was originally published in 1972.
Which could be particularly difficult for a writer of autobiographical novels.