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A LOVER OF LIGHT AMONG LUMINARIES : Dilip Kumar Roy But the ideal autobiography should be one where the author narrates the events of outward life with reasonable historical accuracy, and also at the same time enables the reader to peep into his inward shape of consciousness called personality and thus partake of both the author's wealth of mind and eventful terrestrial career. Notes : 1. Martin Gray, A Dictionary of Literary Terms, (1984; rpt. Beirut: Longman
York Press, 1990), p.33 2. ibid.,p.28.
Quoted in Waldo H. Dunn, English Biography (New York: Dutton & Co.. 1916), pp. 130-131. Quoted in Meena Sodhi, Indian English Writing: The Autobiographical
Mode (New Delhi: Creative Books, 1999), p.37 5. P(aul) Murray) Kendall). "Biographical Literature", Encyclopaedia
Britanica, 1985, XXIII, 199.
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