Life as Creative Constraint is the first book to focus on the extraordinary life-writing of the French experimental writing group, the Oulipo. It conducts a close analysis of the intersection of the oulipian and the autobiographical in the work of Georges Perec, Marcel Bénabou, Jacques Roubaud and Anne F. Garréta.

Anna Kemp was formerly a Senior Lecturer in French at Queen Mary University of London. She is now a children's author based in Oxford.