His better known text Al-Muharat also contains many autobiographical passages.
Styron later recalled the misery of this work in an autobiographical passage of Sophie's Choice.
The sources prior to the 6th/12th century consist of: (1) an autobiographical passage by Farabi, preserved by Ibn Abī Uṣaibiʿa.
The main source of information about Psellos' life comes from his own works, which contain extensive autobiographical passages.
At other times, as in the autobiographical passages, the book is concise, smoothly written and delightfully opinionated.
In an openly autobiographical passage in "The Vampire Lestat," the hero finds his mother, a French marquise, dying of consumption.
This piece includes some autobiographical passages that provide information about Amuli's life.
Almost alone among the group, Glazer has never written an extended autobiographical passage.
The autobiographical passages are the most lively part of his work.
Like his Al-tashawwuf (e.g. on Abu Madyan) it contains many autobiographical passages of Abu al-Abbas himself.