Editors' Note

The International Year in Review is 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. This year's International Year in Review includes entries from Australia, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Canada, China, Colombia, Curaçao, Finland, France, Iceland, India, Italy, Korea, México, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania, South Africa, Spain, and the UK, along with two essays from the US, one on biography and one on memoir.