Question: Who is this controversial Canadian-born American whose frank memoirs helped usher in the confessional style of autobiographical writing and whose disciple became a topic of James G. Kiernan's writing?

Context articles: National Biography Award
James G. Kiernan
Mary MacLane
A Sketch of the Past
Seizan
Lindell Library
I Confess (magazine)
Aldo Zargani
List of memoirs of political prisoners
Glas (book)

The National Biography Award, established in Australia in 1996, is awarded for the best published work of biographical or autobiographical writing by an Australian.
 It aims "to encourage the highest standards of writing biography and autobiography and to promote public interest in those genres".
 It was initially awarded every two years, but from 2002 it has been awarded annually.
 Its administration was taken over by the State Library of New South Wales in 1998.
James G. Kiernan was an American psychologist, prominent in American gay history for the first recorded use of the terms "heterosexual" and "homosexual" in 1892.
 Jonathan Ned Katz, historian of the American gay and lesbian experience, cites Kiernan's initial attribution of perversion to the term "heterosexual."
 Kiernan went on to write of a variety of topics, e.g. Mary MacLane's disciple Viola Larsen, who stole a horse and wrote romantic letters to other girls, as an example of child precocity and possible genius.
Mary MacLane (May 1, 1881 – "c".
 August 6, 1929) was a controversial Canadian-born American writer whose frank memoirs helped usher in the confessional style of autobiographical writing.
 MacLane was known as the "Wild Woman of Butte".
"A Sketch of the Past" is an autobiographical essay written by Virginia Woolf in 1939.
 It was written as a break from writing her biography of Roger Fry, English artist and critic, and fellow member of the Bloomsbury Group.
 It was later edited and posthumously published by Leonard Woolf and now can be found in "Moments of Being", a collection of her autobiographical writing.
Seizan (西山 ) is the name of the branch of Jōdo-shū Buddhism that was founded by Hōnen's disciple, Shōkū.
 Shōkū often went by the name "Seizan" as well, however the name derives from the western mountains of Kyoto where Shōkū often dwelt.
 The main temple of this branch of Buddhism is at the temple of Eikandō in the city of Kyoto.
 The temple formerly served as a Shingon Buddhist temple, but when Jōhen headed the temple, he took an interest in Jōdo Buddhism (originally in order to criticize it), designated Hōnen as the 11th chief priest.
 Later, Hōnen's disciple became the head priest of Eikan-dō, and established the Seizan branch, fully converting the temple into a Jōdo one.
Lindell Library, also known as the James G. Lindell Family Library, is the academic library of Augsburg University, a liberal arts college in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
 The library is named for the James G. Lindell family.
 James G. Lindell attended Augsburg from 1942–1943 and served on the Board of Regents from 1970-1982.
 The library was dedicated in the fall of 1997.
 Lindell Library serves the Augsburg community, including students, faculty, staff, and alumni.
I Confess was an American biweekly pulp magazine aimed at young women readers that was published between 1922 and 1932 by Dell Publishing.
 The magazine contained stories which were marketed as being true first-person accounts of mostly middle-class women’s lives and scandals told in a confessional style, which was different from many other pulp magazines which were mainly marketed as cheap fictional magazines.
 It was the first magazine and title ever published by Dell, and its popularity helped launch over 700 magazine titles and make Dell Publishing into the successful publishing house which it remains today.
Aldo Zargani (born in Turin, 7 August 1933) is an Italian Jewish writer and public intellectual who lives in Rome.
 He started writing in his early sixties: his first and best-known book, "Per violino solo" ("For Solo Violin"), appeared in 1995.
 In addition to his autobiographical writing, Zargani contributes to discussions about the politics and culture of Italian Jews with essays, lectures and school visits.
A memoir is an autobiographical writing normally dealing with a particular subject from the author's life.
 The following is a list of writers who have described their experiences of being political prisoners. Those included in the list are individuals who were imprisoned for activities ranging from peaceful dissent to violent revolutionary activity.
 Some were citizens of the countries whose regimes imprisoned them and others were foreign nationals.
 What connects them is that they have written about their experience of having been imprisoned because of their political opposition or political identity.
Glas is a 1974 book by Jacques Derrida.
 It combines a reading of Hegel's philosophical works and of Jean Genet's autobiographical writing.
 "One of Derrida's more inscrutable books," its form and content invite a reflection on the nature of literary genre and of writing.