Introduction / James Olney -- The memoirs of Henry James : self-interest as autobiography / James M. Cox -- The biographer's secret / Ira B. Nadel -- Narrative and chronology as structures of reference and the new model autobiographer / Paul John Eakin -- Conversion and the language of autobiography / Geoffrey Galt Harpham -- James Gronniosaw and the trope of the Talking Book / Henry Louis Gates, Jr. -- Black Elk speaks with forked tongue / G. Thomas Couser -- Dialogue in antebellum Afro-American autobiography / William L. Andrews -- Is the slave narrative a species of autobiography? / John Sekora --Scripture of the self : "prologue in heaven" / Georges Gusdorf -- Toward conceptualizing diary / Felicity A. Nussbaum
