I'm Boswell, your personal memoir writer.

I ask the right questions, listen to your stories, and turn our conversations into something you want to share with your loved ones. Just talk and I will do the rest. I'm a biographer made for people worth remembering, like you.

B
What's the first house you can really remember? Not just the address — the room you'd go to when no one was looking for you.
JC
the attic. dad's old records were up there.
B
Tell me about those records. What was the first one you reached for?
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See it in action

This is what it feels like.

A real conversation. A real chapter. No forms, no homework, no awkward prompts. Watch what happens when ten minutes of conversation becomes something worth keeping.

B
Take me back to the summer of '76. You'd just finished your residency. What did the drive to Buffalo feel like?
JC
the car didn't have AC. i remember sweating through my shirt and worrying about how i'd look when i met the chief
B
First impressions mattered then. Did anyone meet you at the hospital, or did you just walk in?
JC
walked in. nobody was expecting me until monday. a nurse named Eleanor took pity on me and showed me where to put my things
B
Wait, Eleanor? Was that the same Eleanor you'd later marry?
JC
yes. though neither of us knew it that afternoon. she was engaged to somebody else at the time
B
10 minutes later
Chapter Three First draft · 3 min ago

The Long Way to Buffalo

A residency, a Pontiac, and the nurse at the front desk

The Pontiac didn't have air conditioning, and by the time James crossed into Erie County the back of his shirt was soaked through. He had rehearsed the handshake somewhere outside Erie — firm, but not too firm — and he was rehearsing it again as he pulled into the staff lot at Buffalo General on a Saturday in July of 1976, two days early and entirely unexpected.

Nobody at the front desk had been told he was coming. He stood there with a duffel bag and a copy of Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, trying to look like a doctor and not a sweating twenty-six-year-old who had just driven four hundred miles. The woman behind the desk — small, dark-haired, a wedding band on the wrong hand for reasons he wouldn't learn for another year — took one look at him and laughed, not unkindly. Her name was Eleanor. She told him to sit down. She brought him water in a paper cup.

He did not know, in that moment, that he was looking at his wife. He knew only that the cup was cold, that the lobby was quiet, and that for the first time since leaving New Haven he could feel his shoulders come down from around his ears.

How it works

Every conversation ends with something to read.

Chat for ten minutes about a memory, a person, a chapter of your life. Boswell turns it into a beautifully written piece you can share, save, or build on.

i.

Talk.

Open Biographer, pick a topic interview, and start. Speak or type — whatever feels easier. No forms. No questionnaires. Just a conversation.

ii.

Boswell writes.

The moment you're done, Boswell turns what you said into a finished chapter. Real prose. Real voice. The kind of writing you'd expect from a memoir.

iii.

Keep going.

The next session is already waiting — and it's personalized to what you just shared. Your story builds, conversation by conversation.

Two ways to tell your story

Answer questions, or tell any story you want.

Some days you want a prompt. Some days you have a story you need to get down. Boswell does both — and gets better at both the more you use it.

Mode 01 · Interviews

Pick a topic. I'll take it from there.

Choose from 100+ interview topics across eight chapters of life. Boswell asks the right questions, follows the thread, and pulls out the moments that matter.

Becoming a parent
B
What's the first moment you felt like a parent? Not the hospital — the moment after, when it actually hit you.
Mode 02 · Stories

Got a story to tell? Just start.

Some stories don't fit a topic. Tell Boswell anything that's on your mind — a memory, a moment, something you don't want to forget. He'll ask questions to pull more out, only if you want.

JC
i need to write down what happened on the drive home from the hospital with mom
B
Take your time. Where were you driving from, and who was in the car?
100+ interview topics

Pick the ones you're stoked about.

From childhood mischief to the wisdom you'd pass on. Skip what doesn't interest you. Linger on what does. Your story, your shape — eight chapters of life, only the topics you want.

Kid Me Playtime The World at Your Doorstep Parents & Caregivers Siblings Family Adventures Early School Days The End of Childhood High School Academics Teen Social Life Kid Me Playtime The World at Your Doorstep Parents & Caregivers Siblings Family Adventures Early School Days The End of Childhood High School Academics Teen Social Life
First Jobs College Years People Who Guided Me Early Romance How We Met My Wedding Becoming a Parent Career Journey Key Achievements Mentors & Leadership Pivots & Evolutions First Jobs College Years People Who Guided Me Early Romance How We Met My Wedding Becoming a Parent Career Journey Key Achievements Mentors & Leadership Pivots & Evolutions
My Signature Hobby Travel Becoming a Grandparent Food Outdoors & Nature Gardening & Growing Family Traditions Reading What You Stand For Spirituality The Wisdom You'd Pass On Letters to Tomorrow My Signature Hobby Travel Becoming a Grandparent Food Outdoors & Nature Gardening & Growing Family Traditions Reading What You Stand For Spirituality The Wisdom You'd Pass On Letters to Tomorrow

Eight chapters. From Early Years to your Career and Wisdom & Legacy — only the topics you want.

No writing required

Just ramble. I'll make it perfect.

No spelling. No grammar. No "is this good enough?" Talk like you'd talk to a friend at the kitchen table — Boswell turns it into beautiful prose.

Talk or type.

Use your voice when it's easier. Type when it's quieter. Switch mid-sentence if you want — Boswell handles both seamlessly.

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Rambling is welcome.

Tangents, half-finished thoughts, "wait, where was I?" — all of it is fine. Boswell finds the through-line and turns it into prose worth reading.

"so anyway my mom — wait did i say my dad already worked at the plant? — okay so my mom…"
Personalized to you

It learns your story as you tell it.

The more you share, the better Boswell gets at asking. Every session is more personal than the last — and over time, he starts noticing what matters to you.

Session 1Day one
B
Tell me about the house you grew up in. What's the first room that comes to mind?
twelve sessions later
Session 12Personalized
B
You mentioned your dad used to fix radios at the kitchen table on Sunday nights. Was that where you first got curious about how things worked — or was that already there?
…and after enough sessions
Story seed · Suggested for you
You've mentioned your grandfather's barn three times now — once in your childhood chapter, once when you talked about your dad, and once about the summer you turned twelve. Sounds like a place that meant something. Want to tell that story?

Boswell notices what keeps coming up — and surfaces the stories you seem to keep returning to.

Your story, your way

Every chapter is yours to shape.

First or third person. Edit anything. Add photos. Invite the people who were there to chime in. Boswell writes the first draft — you and your people make it true.

First or third person.

Pick how your chapters read — and switch anytime. Same story, different voice.

It was raining the morning I bet it all on myself. The studio on Park & 23rd was empty when I signed the lease. My mother, when I finally called her, did not kill me — though it was a close thing.

Add photos.

Drop in pictures from any chapter — the porch, the wedding, the summer of '74.

+ Add

Edit anything.

Rewrite a sentence, fix a name, add the part you forgot to mention. It's still your book.

We moved to Brooklyn Brooklyn Heights in the fall of '68, the year my brother was born.

Invite family to add their memories.

Friends and family can chime in with their version of the same story. The book gets richer.

SK
DM
JK
Sarah, Dad & Jess
3 contributors invited
A book is just the beginning

A book. An audiobook. A children's book. A song.

Your stories become whatever feels right — keepsakes for you, gifts for the people you love, surprises for the grandkids.

Printed

The book.

A real, beautifully bound biography you can hold, gift, and pass down.

Listen

The audiobook.

Your story, narrated. Listen on a walk. Send it to family abroad.

Original

The song.

A custom song from a memory.

For kids

The children's book.

Pick a moment from your life and turn it into a story for a kid in your life.

Digital

The ebook.

Your full biography, in your pocket and theirs.

More

…and more.

New formats added over time. Once your story's in Boswell, it can become almost anything.

Questions

The good answers.

Ten minutes per conversation, as often or as rarely as you like. There's no schedule, no homework, no pressure. Most people do a session or two a week and end the year with a full biography.

If they can use a computer, they can use Biographer. They can talk instead of type, and the interface is designed to feel like a text conversation — nothing to learn, nothing to set up.

A growing library of beautifully written chapters, accessible anytime. From there, they (or you) can turn the chapters into a printed book, audiobook, children's book, song, or ebook — either included in your subscription package or added à la carte whenever it feels right.

Those products send weekly prompts and produce a single book at the end of the year. Boswell is a real, ongoing conversation — you get a finished chapter after every session, the conversations and prompts get more personal as you go, and your stories can become books, audiobooks, children's books, songs, and more. A book is just the beginning.