International Year in Review: Introduction

A new annual feature in Biography, the International Year in Review replaces our Reviewed Elsewhere section with a collection of short, site-specific essays by scholars from around the world on the year’s most influential publications in life writing in the countries, regions, and languages in which they specialize. Our inaugural International Year in Review includes entries from Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, China, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Korea, the Netherlands, Portugal, Romania, and the UK, along with two essays from the US, one on biography and one on memoir.