This book talks about the auto/biography as a flourishing literary genre, written to illuminate the study of the individual and his or her personal circumstances. Missing Persons suggests that the auto/biography is, in fact, based on fictions, both about the person and what is possible to know about any one individual. Featuring particular kinds of auto/biographical writing, such as work on the British Royal Family and other twentieth-century auto/biographies, this book demonstrates the absences and evasions-the 'missing persons' of auto/biography.