It is suggested herein that autobiographical memory, as it occurs in reflection, is intimately tied to narrative. This interrelationship is one reason why autobiographical memory may be held in suspicion. For if in fact such memory processes are inseparable from the process of narration, with its effort to synthesize the heterogeneous episodes of the past into some semblance of a coherent whole, then these processes, it may be held, are inevitably tainted. The concern is a valid one and is borne out by the numerous ways in which the personal past may be distorted and falsified through narrativization. At the same time, the narrativization of the personal past, as it occurs in and through memory, need not culminate in distortion and falsification but may instead serve as a vitally important inroad into self-understanding. Moreover, it may serve as an important site for crafting a conception of reality and truth that is more closely tied to works of literature and, in turn, more adequate to the human realm than prevailing conceptions of autobiographical memory tend to suggest.