The article is devoted to comparison, analysis of problems, features of the composition of autobiographical novels of three contemporaries: Margarita Sabashnikova, Anastasia Tsvetaeva, Gala Dali. The genre of the autobiographical novel is interes­ting for the researcher because it combines the documentary and artistic components. The choice of material is determined by the typological commonality of the fates of the authors of the works. The range of ideas presented in these novels allows us to imagine the attitude and psychology of the people of that era.