I’m a long-term supporter of the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing, and a member of its advisory board.
https://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/oclw
If you’re interested in the many ways in which lives are written – biographies, memoirs, obituaries, shilling lives and three-volume lives, fictions, half-fictions, lives of musicians, scientists, objects, houses – have a look at the events programme, resources and the podcast archive. From summer 2020 one of the Weinrebe Lectures on Life-Writing will be held annually at the University of Birmingham.