The biography or memoirs of a person written by him or herself is called an autobiography. It contains "a continuous narrative of the major events of his past". Some autobiographies start from the childhood but some others are different. The growth of autobiography in the West has gone hand in hand with that of the novel. There are many novels which are either autobiographies in disguise or borrow the autobiographical form of confession. These are called fictional autobiographies. Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre Charles Dickens's David Copperfield and J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye are well-known examples of fictional autobiographies.

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Keywords: Autobiography, Novel, Confession, Charles Dickens, Adolescence.