Auto/biography is currently one of the most popular literary genres, widely supposed to illuminate the study of the individual and his or her circumstances. This text, however, suggests that auto/biography is based on fictions, both about the person and about what it is possible to know about any one individual. Organized into chapters which consider particular kinds of auto/biographical writing, this book sets out to demonstrate the absences and evasions - indeed the "missing persons" of auto/biography.