Life stories rise in popularity, proliferate on bookshelves

Shruti Debi hasn’t plowed through as many autobiographies and biographies as she has in the last 10 months since becoming a literary agent. Suddenly, India’s English-language writing universe is awash with life stories of all kinds. Public figures are queuing up to get their personal narratives “recorded and preserved”, says Debi, director and senior agent, Aitken Alexander Associates India Pvt. Ltd. That’s being fuelled on the other side by a growing curiosity on the part of readers about public figures and celebrities, a hunger that publishers are happy to satisfy.

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