Boswell asks the right questions, listens to their stories, and turns every conversation into a beautifully written chapter, for you to keep forever.
No homework, no deadlines. Just ten minutes of conversation, whenever they're ready.
From $150 for 6 months. Delivered instantly, or scheduled for a special day.
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.
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.
Your parents chat for ten minutes about a memory, a person, a chapter of their life. Boswell turns it into a beautifully written chapter the whole family can read.
Pick your plan, write a personal message, and send a gift card in minutes. Send it today, or schedule it for a special day.
Your parents open the Biographer, pick a topic, and start. They can speak or type, whatever feels easier. No forms. No questionnaires. Just a conversation.
The moment they’re done, Boswell turns what they said into a finished chapter for the whole family to read. Real prose. Real voice. The kind of writing you’d expect from a memoir.
Their stories become whatever feels right: keepsakes for them, gifts for the people they love, surprises for the grandkids.
A real, beautifully bound biography the whole family can hold, gift, and pass down.
Their story, narrated. Listen on a walk. Send it to family abroad.
A custom song from a memory.
Pick a moment from their life and turn it into a story for a kid in the family.
Their full biography, on any device, ready whenever they want to read or share it.
New formats added over time. Once their story’s in Boswell, it can become almost anything.
They can use voice when it's easier. Type when it's quieter. They can even switch mid-sentence if they want. Boswell handles both seamlessly.
No spelling. No grammar. No "is this good enough?" They talk like they'd talk to a friend at the kitchen table. Boswell turns it into beautiful prose.
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.
First or third person. Add photos. They can even invite the people who were there to chime in. Boswell writes the first draft. They and their people make it true.
They pick how their chapters are read, and switch anytime. Same story, different voice.
Drop in pictures from any chapter: the porch, the wedding, the summer of '74.
Rewrite a sentence, fix a name, add the part they forgot to mention. It’s their book.
Friends and family can chime in with their version of the same story. The book gets richer.
The stories your parents tell at the dinner table deserve to be more than memories that fade: the move across the country, the year everything almost fell apart, how they met, how they got through.
Gift the Biographer, and they'll capture the life they've actually lived. In their own words. On their own time. Ten minutes at a time. And at the end of every conversation, they'll have a finished chapter to share with you.
Most gifts are forgotten by spring. This one gets richer every year.
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Nothing for your parent to set up. They can start their first conversation minutes after opening the gift.
Children's books, custom songs, and extra copies available à la carte during or after any subscription.
Ten minutes per conversation, as often or as rarely as they 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 can turn the chapters into a printed book, audiobook, children's book, song, or ebook, either included in the gift package or added à la carte whenever it feels right.
Gifts are paid upfront so it arrives as a complete, ready-to-open present. Nothing for your parent to set up or pay for later. They can start their first conversation the moment they're ready.
Yes. At checkout you choose when it arrives: send it right away, or pick a future date like their birthday or Mother's Day. We'll deliver the gift on the day you choose, so it lands right on the occasion.
Yes. Monthly, 6-month, and 12-month plans can all be cancelled. Refund terms vary by plan. See Terms for details.
They're theirs. Forever. They can export their chapters and transcripts at any time, and they'll always be available to them in their account.
Those products send weekly prompts and produce a single book at the end of the year. Boswell is a real, ongoing conversation. They get a finished chapter after every session, the conversations and prompts get more personal as they go, and their stories can become books, audiobooks, children's books, songs, and more. A book is just the beginning.