Biography 1st person pov books

What do you like about the first person?

Well, it’s not that I’m especially interested in writers writing about themselves. The books that we’re going to talk about – even though they’re autobiographical – use the first person as a way of looking out into the world. The first person, the “I”, isn’t an introverted or a narcissistic thing. It’s more like a periscope by which the reader can see into the world. I think the voice of the first person allows a great freedom. It can touch on reportage, natural history, science, fiction, poetry, myth. It can embrace such a wide variety of strategies.

So not just straightforward memoir.

I’m a bit allergic to the word “memoir”. Obviously my own most recent book, The Music Room, could be called a memoir. And it was. But the word always gives me an inward shiver, because I feel it’s diminishing. What I love about the five books I’ve chosen is that they’re about so much more than they at fi

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Today, let’s take a look at some “biographies” told through first person point-of-view (POV).

First-Person Point Of View Examples - Authority Self-Publishing

70 books based on 23 votes: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Black Beauty by Anna Sewell, Circe by Madeline Miller, Life of Pi by Yann Martel, The Le.

First Person POV Fantasy (23 books) - Goodreads

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I’ve chosen 18 of the best first-person books that offer unique perspectives on a wide range of topics, from poverty and class divides (Barbara Kingsolver’s Demon Copperhead) to fate versus free will (Rebecca Serle’s In Five Years).