Editors' note.

This year's installment of the Annual Bibliography continues, with some fluctuations, to display the patterns we've seen over the past few years in the publication of critical and theoretical work on life writing. First of all, the sheer number of entries has again increased--from roughly 1,200 last year to roughly 1,300 this year. The biggest shift upward appears in the number of dissertations (from 87 to 134), but the most striking difference appears not in the numbers of articles appearing in edited collections and special issues, which are virtually identical (roughly 650), but in the number of collections and special issues themselves--a major drop from 79 last year to 50 this year.

Why then is the number of articles the same? Because of the large number...

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