“[Augustine] doesn’t really talk about the things you expect in an autobiography. He doesn’t talk about his sister, his brother. He talks about his mother just briefly, when she dies…He was the court orator for the emperor in Milan. Never mentions his activities there, except to say “I was paid to tell lies”…He’s not interested in all that. He’s interested in internal spiritual growth and struggles,” says Garry Wills, author of Augustine’s Confessions: A Biography.