Biographies which are more revelations of the person's inner thoughts and self than a "life story." Possible choices might be Sylvia Ashton-Warner's.
Sylvia Ashton- Warner's life story is rather shocking.!
Ashton-Warner, Sylvia (1908–1984)
New Zealand writer and teacher who achieved international fame as an innovator of child-based educational methods, vivifying her experiences teaching Maori children, and promulgating an educational scheme based on "organic" integration of the inner and outer self. Name variations: Sylvia Henderson, Sylvia.
Born Sylvia Constance Warner on December 17, 1908, in Stratford, New Zealand; died on April 28, 1984, in Tauranga, New Zealand, of abdominal cancer; one of nine children of Margaret (Maxwell) Warner (a teacher) and Francis Ashton Warner (a house-husband); attended Wairarapa College in Masterton, 1926–1927; Auckland Teacher's Training College, 1928–1931; married Keith Dawson Henderson (a teacher), on August 23, 1931; children: Jasmine, Elliot, Ashton.
Awards:
New Zealand State Literary Funds' Scholarship in Letters (1958); Delta Kappa Gamma Society International Educator's Award (1980); New Zealand Book Award (1980) for I Passed This Way;