P. Sivakami is a celebrated Dalit writer from Tamil Nadu. She was born in 1957 in a Dalit community. She has done her post-graduation degree in History. After that she thought to take an administrative post. She took up IAS exam and finally became an IAS officer. Being a writer from the core, this job could not give her entire satisfaction to her and she took voluntary retirement from her job and took writing as a full-time profession since 2008. Her works deal with the marginalised status of women and the tyranny of men. An autobiographical novel is a form of novel in which autofiction technique is used autobiographical and fictive elements are merged. The names and places may be changed and the events have resemblance with author’s personal life. In the autobiographical novel The Grip of Change, Sivakami has used another name Gowri whose life matches with Sivakami. Woman has been depicted as a second-grade gender in her novels and they are loaded with bundles of responsibilities.