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Season’s Greetings! Wishing you good health and fresh energy for 2026—for all the ups and downs on your stairs.
Upstairs, downstairs—guided by LiC #autobiographies—may you create your own personal chemical path.
As you read, think about how you would have acted.
To date, we’ve published 15 vols with 4,234 pages and 3,095 figures. Our cumulative index now includes 4,000+ people, connecting chemists around the globe—richly complemented by supporting materials.
More to come before the end of 2026.

Osna.FM Sep 22

Following the release of her extensive autobiography, former German Chancellor Angela Merkel has indicated she has no plans to undertake a similarly large-scale... https://news.osna.fm/?p=16466 | #news #autobiographies #massive #merkel #planned

Merkel: No More Massive Autobiographies Planned - Osna.FM

she won't be writing another extensive memoir! Learn why this project was a unique and monumental effort.

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thkampen Jul 8, 2025

SHAN e.V. - Newsletter Februar 2010 Nr. 41

FID Anglo-American Culture Jun 14, 2025

Day 2 of #DGAVL 2025 #conference had fascinating talks by Daniel Weidner on confessions in the #autofiction s of KO Knausgard, Annie Ernaux & Sheila Heti, and by Sara R Gallardo on #autobiographies by psychiatrized authors, from 19th c to today #MadMovement #MadStudies

#LiteraryStudies

FID Anglo-American Culture Jun 13, 2025

Some highlights of this #DGAVL #conference include @NitzkeSolvejg's talk on tree/nature/ #lifewriting as well as Monika Schmitz-Emans on artists' books, Beatrice Nickel on graphic #autobiographies & Patrick Lars Müller on autobiographical accounts of encounters w #aliens 👽- very diverse topics!

#LiteraryStudies #biographies

Carolannie Jul 30, 2024

Interesting essay about people writing about themselves. Now I know why I liked Barbara Kingsolver's book High Tide in Tucson so much. I usually don't like autobiographies.
#PersonalGrowth #Essays #Autobiographies
https://open.substack.com/pub/innerlifecollaborative/p/blush-at-yourself-before-anyone-else?r=mlfh&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Blush At Yourself Before Anyone Else Can

Danielle Ofri taught me how to turn myself into a jerk in nonfiction.

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Lives in Chemistry Jul 12, 2024

🔥Today we announce the first woman in the series of LiC #autobiographies: “Burning for Science—a Woman in a Technical Field” by Katharina Kohse-Höinghaus, highly decorated physical chemist at the Bielefeld University, to be published on March 8, 2025. Follow us to keep informed, info + pre-orders:
https://l-i-c.org/1137
#womeninchemistry #womeninscience #womeninSTEM