Autobiographies are an important part of writing history, since they give a unique, first-hand, and an eyewitness account of the past, as lived by their writers. Autobiographies give us a glimpse of rich lives lived

with all their ups and downs, struggles and failures, as well as advances and setbacks. Such genre invites us to look at history, not so much through a distant bird’s eye view, but through the eyes of one person as he/she closely experienced it.