I dunno. I think we can clever ourselves into the ground debating how "true" autobiographies really are. Of course people prevaricate, exaggerate, combine events, deliberately or innocently misremember things, etc . There are also a lot of writers struggling to find words to express their inner truth as accurately as words can suffice to do the job. That is why they bother to write at all.

Anyone else read "This Boy's Life" by Tobias Wolff? I'd hazard a guess that it comes pretty close to Wolff's emotional truth.

Elmer