Pyromaniac: A MemoirAged 18, Rio Matchett burned down a church. She still does not know why. Pyromaniac the first ever published personal account from someone with the diagnosis is Rios account of falling insane, being sectioned, and then incarcerated for arson, and the story of her search to understand humanitys enduring and ubiquitous fascination with fire. The book spans genres, blending memoir with history, anthropology, psychology, myth and literature, confronting