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Title	Author	Description
Madame de Pompadour Madame de Pompadour	Nancy Mitford Mitford	Nancy Mitford's delightfully candid biography re-creates the spirit of eighteenth-century Versailles with its love of pleasure and treachery. Contributors: Amanda Foreman
Conundrum Conundrum	Jan Morris Morris	A pioneering memoir exploring the borders of gender and early sex-reassignment surgery.
Reading and Writing: A Personal Account Reading and Writing	V.S. Naipaul Naipaul	In this essay of literary autobiography, V. S. Naipaul sifts through memories of his childhood in Trinidad, his university days in England, and his earliest attempts at writing, seeking the experiences of life and reading that shaped his imagination and his growth as a writer.
Memoirs of Lorenzo Da Ponte Memoirs	Lorenzo Da Ponte Ponte	"I shall speak of things . . . so singular in their oddity as in some manner to instruct, or at least entertain, without wearying." —Lorenzo da Ponte Contributors: Elisabeth Abbott
Renoir, My Father Renoir, My Father	Jean Renoir Renoir	In this delightful memoir, Jean Renoir, the director of such masterpieces of the cinema as Grand Illusion and The Rules of the Game, tells the life story of his father, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, the great Impressionist painter. Contributors: Robert L. Herbert , Randolph and Dorothy Weaver
The Snows of Yesteryear: Portraits for an Autobiography Snows of Yesteryear	Gregor von Rezzori Rezzori	The author of Memoirs of an Anti-Semite tells his own story through portraits of the members of his childhood household. "An elegiac tribute to a receding past and a testament to the redemptive powers of memory—a family photography album, beautifully translated into words.—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times Book Review Contributors: John Banville , H. F. Broch De Rothermann
Walter Benjamin: The Story of a Friendship Walter Benjamin	Gershom Scholem Scholem	Gershom Scholem was a precocious teenager when he became Walter Benjamin's close friend. His account of that relationship is at once a tribute to his friend's genius and a lament for his personal and, as Scholem sees it, intellectual self-destructiveness. Contributors: Lee Siegel , Harry Zohn
Memoirs of My Nervous Illness Memoirs of My Nervous Illness	Daniel Paul Schreber Schreber	The wonderful Schreber . . . ought to have been made a professor of psychiatry and director of a mental hospital. — Sigmund Freud Contributors: Rosemary Dinnage
Flaubert and Madame Bovary: A Double Portrait Flaubert and Madame Bovary	Francis Steegmuller Steegmuller	A work of scholarship, a profound contribution to literary criticism, Flaubert and Madame Bovary is a biographical study executed with all the precision and vision of a great novel. Contributors: Victor Brombert
The Quest for Corvo Quest for Corvo	A.J.A. Symons Symons	The Quest for Corvo is a hilarious and heartbreaking portrait of the strange Frederick Rolfe, self-appointed Baron Corvo, an artist, writer, and frustrated aspirant to the priesthood with a bottomless talent for self-destruction. Contributors: A.S. Byatt