On Autofiction

An excellent essay on Autofiction and its value to a creative life:

"How to Read Autofiction"
A Wesleyan University Honors Thesis by Sarah Pitcher McDonough

http://wesscholar.wesleyan.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1695&context=etd_hon_theses

The autobiographer writes on his own life. The autofictionalist writes 
with it. The use of fiction gives him total liberty[…] Autofiction is an 
experimental genre. In all of the senses of the term. It is a laboratory. 
Not the recording of facts with a novelistic sauce. A real laboratory. Of 
writing and of life.


--Chloé Delaume