This edition of Life Writing showcases a cluster of four papers that were first presented at the 2019 International Auto/Biography Association (IABA) conference in Madrid. The conference theme was ‘Knowing the Self: Auto/Biographical Narratives and the History of Knowledge’, and in a panel session entitled ‘Dear Diary, Dear Body’, Babs Boter, Ernestine Hoegen, Meritxell Simon-Martin, and Leonieke Vermeer presented the research that appears here in a cluster using the same title. Following this cluster, we present two further articles on aspects of diary writing before completing the issue independent of the theme of diaries.
