it is remarkable how bad most "literary" memoirs are, given how so many of them are completely made up
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Anthony Burgess' two volumes come to mind as one of the best ever though.
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Robert Graves on his WW1 experience was also good
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To this sub-thread of good ones, I'd say George Orwell's are pretty great as well, I loved Down & Out in Paris & London and The Road to Wigan Pier... I haven't read Homage to Catalonia yet, but I've heard that people think it's his best book
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The best ever. Did the work every day. Best thing about him is most of his writing was just churning out hackwork to pay the bills (he'd 'review' books without reading beyond the jacket then sell the copies to the bookstore), yet somehow everything he wrote was incredible.
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The central conflict in The Wanting Seed is...astonishing, really. I can't wait for this "pelphase" to end
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