Abstract
In recent years, autobiographies in the spotlight have often been stories of underprivileged women who achieved unexpected success. By contrast, this essay looks at autobiographies by men who achieved somewhat predictable success as teachers under certain historical circumstances which they subsequently thematize in their texts. Frank McCourt approaches self-writing through Catholic devotional practice even though he dispenses with Catholic orthodoxy, while David Levin interrogates his status as an American historian in writing about his own American self. McCourt recognizes teaching as the activity which shaped his life and thus enabled an autobiography. Levin inscribes himself into a disciplinary genealogy. Both writers employ autobiography to establish their “family relationship” with the world of their potential readers.
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