List of autobiographies
The following is a list of notable autobiographies:
By profession[]
Author | Title of book | Year |
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Aerospace | ||
Manfred von Richthofen | The Red Fighter Pilot | 1917 |
Billy Bishop | Winged Warfare | 1918 |
James McCudden | Five Years in the Royal Flying Corps | 1919 |
René Fonck | Mes Combats (My Fights) | 1919 |
Richard E. Byrd | Skyward | 1928 |
Clarence Chamberlin | Record Flights | 1928 |
Frank Hawks | Speed | 1931 |
Amelia Earhart | The Fun of It | 1933 |
Duncan Grinnell-Milne | Wind in the Wires | 1933 |
C. W. A. Scott | C. W. A. Scott's Book: The Life and Mildenhall-Melbourne Flight of C.W.A. Scott | 1934 |
Beirne Lay Jr. | I Wanted Wings | 1937 |
Frank Glasgow Tinker | Some Still Live | 1938 |
Louise Thaden | High, Wide and Frightened | 1938 |
Igor Sikorsky | The Story of the Winged-S | 1939 |
Richard Hillary | The Last Enemy | 1940 |
Beryl Markham | West with the Night | 1942 |
Ted W. Lawson | Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo | 1943 |
Guy Gibson | Enemy Coast Ahead | 1946 |
Henry H. Arnold | Global Mission | 1949 |
Claire Lee Chennault | Way of a Fighter: The Memoirs of Claire Lee Chennault | 1949 |
George Kenney | General Kenney Reports: A Personal History of the Pacific War | 1949 |
Hans-Ulrich Rudel | Trotzdem (Nevertheless)[a] | 1949 |
Dick Grace | Visibility Unlimited | 1950 |
William Bushnell Stout | So Away I Went! | 1951 |
Pierre Clostermann | The Big Show (Le Grand Cirque) | 1951 |
Hanna Reitsch | Flying is My Life (Fliegen, Mein Leben) | 1951 |
Adolf Galland | The First and the Last | 1953 |
Heinz Knoke | I Flew for the Führer | 1953 |
Nevil Shute | Slide Rule: Autobiography of an Engineer | 1954 |
Eino Luukkanen | Fighter Over Finland (Hävittäjälentäjänä Kahdessa Sodassa) | 1956 |
Johnnie Johnson | Wing Leader | 1956 |
John Slessor | The Central Blue: Recollections and Reflections | 1956 |
Saburō Sakai | Samurai! | 1957 |
Pappy Boyington | Baa Baa Black Sheep | 1958 |
Robert S. Johnson | Thunderbolt! | 1958 |
Alan Deere | Nine Lives | 1959 |
Eric Brown | Wings on My Sleeve | 1961 |
Geoffrey de Havilland | Sky Fever: The Autobiography of Sir Geoffrey de Havilland | 1961 |
John Braham | Night Fighter | 1961 |
Nancy Bird | Born to Fly | 1961 |
Curtis LeMay | Mission with LeMay: My Story | 1965 |
Arthur Tedder | With Prejudice: The War Memoirs of Marshal of the Royal Air Force, Lord Tedder | 1966 |
Eddie Rickenbacker | Rickenbacker: An Autobiography | 1967 |
Benjamin Foulois | From the Wright Brothers to the Astronauts: The Memoirs of Benjamin D. Foulois | 1968 |
George William Goddard | Overview: A Lifelong Adventure in Aerial Photography | 1969 |
Francis Gary Powers | Operation Overflight: The U-2 Spy Pilot Tells His Story for the First Time | 1970 |
Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev | The Aim of a Lifetime: The Story of Alexander Yakovlev, Designer of the YAK Fighter Plane | 1972 |
Raymond Collishaw | Air Command: A Fighter Pilot's Story | 1973 |
Donald Wilson | Wooing Peponi: My Odyssey through Many Years | 1973 |
Arthur Lee | Fly Past: Highlights from a Flyer's Life | 1974 |
Igor Kaberov | В прицеле свастика (Swastika in the Gunsight) | 1975 |
Charles Lamb | War in a Stringbag | 1977 |
Alan Cobham | A Time to Fly | 1978 |
Murray Peden | A Thousand Shall Fall | 1979 |
Jean Batten | Alone in the Sky | 1979 |
George Gay | Sole Survivor | 1980 |
William R. Dunn | Fighter Pilot: The First American Ace of World War II | 1982 |
Gerhard Neumann | Herman the German: Enemy Alien U.S. Army Master Sergeant | 1984 |
Stanley Hooker | Not Much of an Engineer | 1985 |
Al Mooney | The Al Mooney Story: They All Fly Through the Same Air | 1985 |
Chuck Yeager | Yeager: An Autobiography | 1985 |
Roald Dahl | Going Solo | 1986 |
Haywood S. Hansell | The Strategic Air War Against Germany and Japan: A Memoir | 1986 |
Jackie Cochran | Jackie Cochran: An Autobiography | 1987 |
Robert Lee Scott Jr. | The Day I Owned the Sky | 1988 |
Fred Weick | From the Ground Up | 1988 |
Hugh Dundas | Flying Start: A Fighter Pilot's War Years | 1989 |
Kelly Johnson | Kelly: More Than My Share of It All | 1989 |
Bud Anderson | To Fly and Fight | 1991 |
Jimmy Doolittle | I Could Never Be So Lucky Again | 1991 |
Gabby Gabreski | Gabby: A Fighter Pilot's Life | 1991 |
Hajo Herrmann | Eagle's Wings | 1991 |
Joe Foss | A Proud American: The Autobiography of Joe Foss | 1992 |
Tex Johnson | Tex Johnston: Jet-Age Test Pilot | 1992 |
Marion Eugene Carl | Pushing the Envelope: The Career of Fighter Ace and Test Pilot Marion Carl | 1994 |
Ben Rich | Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed | 1994 |
James V. Hartinger | From One Stripe to Four Stars | 1997 |
Paul Tibbets | Return of The Enola Gay | 1998 |
Jeffrey Quill | Spitfire: A Test Pilot's Story | 1998 |
Gene Kranz | Failure Is Not an Option: Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond | 2000 |
Joe Sutter | 747: Creating the World's First Jumbo Jet and Other Adventures from a Life in Aviation | 2006 |
Leland Snow | Putting Dreams to Flight | 2008 |
Anna Yegorova | Red Sky, Black Death: A Soviet Woman Pilot's Memoir of the Eastern Front | 2009 |
Mitsuo Fuchida | For That One Day: The Memoirs of Mitsuo Fuchida, the Commander of the Attack on Pearl Harbor | 2011 |
Norman Kleiss | Never Call Me a Hero: A Legendary American Dive-Bomber Pilot Remembers the Battle of Midway | 2017 |
Anthropology | ||
Margaret Mead | Blackberry Winter: My Earlier Years | 1972 |
Archaeology | ||
Margaret Murray | My First Hundred Years with Ammu | 1963 |
Architecture | ||
Frank Lloyd Wright | Autobiography | 1943 |
Art | ||
Salvador Dalí | The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí | 1942 |
Claude Monet | An Interview | 1900 |
Gwen Raverat | Period Piece | 1952 |
Business | ||
Andrew Carnegie | Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie: with Illustrations | 1920 |
Richard DeVos | Simply Rich: Life and Lessons from the Cofounder of Amway: A Memoir | 2014 |
Andrew S. Grove | A Memoir: Swimming Across | 2001 |
Comedy | ||
Terry-Thomas | Filling the Gap | 1959 |
Harpo Marx | Harpo Speaks | 1961 |
Charlie Chaplin | My Autobiography | 1964 |
Moe Howard | Moe Howard and the Three Stooges, AKA I Came, I Stooged, I Conquered (published posthumously) | 1974 |
Sid Caesar | Where Have I Been? | 1982 |
Kenny Everett | The Custard Stops at Hatfield | 1982 |
Bill Cosby | Fatherhood | 1986 |
Mel Blanc | That's NOT All, Folks | 1988 |
Gilda Radner | It's Always Something | 1989 |
Richard Pryor | Pryor Convictions | 1995 |
Damon Wayans | Bootleg | 1996 |
Stephen Fry | Moab Is My Washpot | 1997 |
Jenny McCarthy | Jen-X: My Open Book | 1997 |
Chris Rock | Rock This | 1997 |
Sandra Bernhard | Confessions of a Pretty Lady | 1998 |
Danny Bonaduce | Random Acts of Badness | 2001 |
Fran Drescher | Cancer Schmancer | 2002 |
Alan Thicke | How Men Have Babies: a New Father's Survival Guide | 2003 |
Rodney Dangerfield | It's Not Easy Being Me: a Lifetime of No Respect But Plenty of Sex and Drugs (published posthumously) | 2004 |
Tom Green | Hollywood Causes Cancer | 2004 |
Rik Mayall | Bigger Than Hitler & Better Than Christ | 2005 |
Tommy Chong | The I Chong: Meditations From the Joint | 2006 |
Alan Thicke | How to Raise Kids Who Won't Hate You | 2006 |
Steve Martin | Born Standing Up | 2007 |
Denis Leary | Why We Suck | 2008 |
Stephen Fry | Ernie: The Autobiography | 2009 |
Frankie Boyle | My Shit Life So Far | 2009 |
Craig Ferguson | American on Purpose | 2009 |
Todd Bridges | Killing Willis, AKA Thatswhatimtalkinbout | 2010 |
Kevin Smith | Tough Sh*t: Life Advice from a Fat, Lazy Slob Who Still Made Good | 2012 |
Jimmie Walker | Dyn-o-mite! | 2012 |
Andrew Dice Clay | The Filthy Truth | 2014 |
Andrew Sachs | I Know Nothing (But Here's What I've Learned) | 2014 |
John Cleese | So, Anyway... | 2014 |
Bob Saget | Dirty Daddy | 2014 |
David Jason | Only Fools and Stories | 2017 |
Cheech Marin | Cheech Is Not My Real Name...But Don't Call Me Chong! | 2017 |
Eric Idle | Always Look On the Bright Side Of Life | 2018 |
Mel Brooks | All About Me: My Remarkable Life In Show Business | 2021 |
Cassandra Peterson | Yours Cruelly, Elvira | 2021 |
Dance | ||
Isadora Duncan | My Life | 1927 |
Derek Hough | Taking the Lead: Lessons from a Life in Motion | 2014 |
Drama | ||
Vincent Price | I Like What I Know | 1959 |
Fred Astaire | Steps in Time | 1960 |
Ken Murray | Life On a Pogo Stick | 1960 |
George Sanders | Memoirs of a Professional Cad | 1960 |
Sir Cedric Hardwicke | A Victorian in Orbit | 1961 |
Dick Gregory | Nigger | 1964 |
Brian Aherne | A Proper Job | 1969 |
Veronica Lake | VL: the Autobiography | 1970 |
Orson Bean | Me and the Orgone | 1971 |
David Niven | The Moon's a Balloon | 1972 |
Kim Hunter | Loose in the Kitchen | 1975 |
Robert Mitchum | It Sure Beats Working | 1975 |
David Niven | Bring On The Empty Horses | 1975 |
Joyce Grenfell | Joyce Grenfell Requests the Pleasure | 1976 |
Christopher Lee | Tall, Dark & Gruesome | 1977 |
Peter Ustinov | Dear Me | 1977 |
Gregory Peck | An Actor's Life | 1978 |
Ralph Bellamy | When the Smoke Hit the Fan | 1979 |
Dale Evans & Roy Rogers | Happy Trails | 1979 |
John Gielgud | An Actor and His Time | 1979 |
Bette Midler | A View From a Broad | 1980 |
Ricardo Montalbán | Reflections: a Life In Two Worlds | 1980 |
Robert Stack | Straight Shooting | 1980 |
Henry Fonda | Fonda: My Life, AKA How Did I Get to Golden Pond? | 1981 |
Mercedes McCambridge | The Quality of Mercy | 1981 |
James Mason | Before I Forget | 1982 |
Satyajit Ray | Jakhan Choto Chilam | 1982 |
Dirk Bogarde | An Orderly Man | 1983 |
James Fox | Comeback: an Actor's Direction | 1983 |
Akira Kurosawa | Something Like an Autobiography | 1983 |
Laurence Olivier | Confessions of an Actor | 1983 |
Roman Polanski | Roman by Polanski | 1984 |
Mr. T | The Man With the Gold | 1984 |
Brooke Shields | On Your Own | 1985 |
Alec Guinness | Blessings in Disguise | 1986 |
Laurence Olivier | On Acting | 1986 |
Franco Zeffirelli | Zeffirelli: an Autobiography | 1986 |
Ingmar Bergman | The Magic Lantern | 1987 |
Patty Duke | Call Me Anna | 1987 |
Arthur Miller | Timebends: A Life | 1987 |
Mamie Van Doren | Playing the Field: Sex, Stardom, Love, and Life in Hollywood | 1987 |
Orson Bean | Too Much Is Not Enough | 1988 |
Chuck Norris | The Secret of Inner Strength: My Story | 1988 |
Terence Stamp | Coming Attractions | 1988 |
Drew Barrymore | Little Girl Lost | 1989 |
Charles Grodin | It Would Be So Nice If You Weren't Here: My Journey Through Show Business | 1989 |
Patrick Macnee | Blind in One Ear | 1989 |
Wayne Newton | Once Before I Go | 1989 |
Tony Randall | Which Reminds Me | 1989 |
Cornel Wilde | Wildelife (published posthumously) | 1989 |
Macdonald Carey | The Days of My Life | 1991 |
Michael York | Accidentally on Purpose | 1991 |
Katharine Hepburn | Me: Stories of My Life | 1991 |
Patty Duke | A Brilliant Madness | 1992 |
Peter O'Toole | Loitering with Intent: The Child | 1992 |
Barry Williams | Growing Up Brady OR I Was a Teenage Greg | 1992 |
Micky Dolenz | I'm a Believer | 1993 |
Richard Fleischer | Just Tell Me When to Cry | 1993 |
James Earl Jones | Voices and Silences | 1993 |
Jeremy Lloyd | Listen Very Carefully, I Shall Say This Only Once | 1993 |
Ann-Margret | My Story | 1994 |
David Cassidy | C'mon, Get Happy: Fear and Loathing On the Partridge Family Bus | 1994 |
Buddy Ebsen | The Other Side of Oz | 1994 |
Sheldon Leonard | And the Show Goes On | 1994 |
Burgess Meredith | So Far, So Good | 1994 |
Burt Reynolds | My Life, AKA Smokey and I | 1994 |
George Takei | To the Stars | 1994 |
Adam West | Back To the Batcave | 1994 |
Loni Anderson | My Life in High Heels | 1995 |
Marlon Brando | Songs My Mother Taught Me | 1995 |
Kelsey Grammer | So Far... | 1995 |
Charlton Heston | In the Arena | 1995 |
Garry Marshall | Wake Me When It's Funny | 1995 |
Mary Tyler Moore | After All: How I Made It Despite Everything | 1995 |
Leonard Nimoy | I Am Spock | 1995 |
Anthony Quinn | One Man Tango | 1995 |
Maureen Stapleton | One Hell of a Life | 1995 |
Burt Ward | Boy Wonder: My Life In Tights | 1995 |
Claire Bloom | Leaving a Doll's House | 1996 |
James Doohan | Beam Me Up, Scotty | 1996 |
Fran Drescher | Enter Whining | 1996 |
Alec Guinness | My Name Escapes Me | 1996 |
Clayton Moore | I Was That Masked Man | 1996 |
Leslie Nielsen | Bad Golf My Way | 1996 |
Christopher Reeve | Still Me | 1996 |
Aaron Spelling | A Prime-Time Life | 1996 |
Cathy Lee Crosby | Let the Magic Begin | 1997 |
Yaphet Kotto | The Royalty: A Spiritual Awakening | 1997 |
Jerry Mathers | ...And Myself as the Beaver | 1997 |
Frank Muir | A Kentish Lad | 1997 |
Kenneth Branagh | Beginning | 1998 |
Jackie Chan | My Life in Action | 1998 |
Peter Coyote | Sleeping Where I Fall | 1998 |
Peter Fonda | Don't Tell Dad | 1998 |
Walter Koenig | Warped Factors: A Neurotic's Guide to the Universe | 1998 |
Patrick Macnee | The Avengers and Me | 1998 |
Carroll O'Connor | I Think I'm Outta Here | 1998 |
Grace Lee Whitney | The Longest Trek: My Tour of the Galaxy | 1998 |
Ed Wood, Jr. | Hollywood Rat Race (published posthumously) | 1998 |
Alec Guinness | A Positively Final Appearance | 1999 |
Gloria Stuart | I Just Keep Hoping | 1999 |
Esther Williams | Million-Dollar Mermaid | 1999 |
Paul Daniels | Under No Illusion | 2000 |
Michael York | How a Shakespearean Prepares | 2000 |
Linda Blair | Going Vegan | 2001 |
Larry Hagman | Hello Darlin': Tall – and Absolutely True – Tales From My Life | 2001 |
Sidney Poitier | The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography | 2001 |
Lisa Whelchel | Life Lessons From Heavenly Father, AKA I've Taken the Good, I've Taken the Bad... | 2001 |
Michael York | Dispatches From Armageddon | 2001 |
Michael J. Fox | Lucky Man | 2002 |
Richard Kiel | Making It Big In the Movies | 2002 |
Richard Chamberlain | Shattered Love | 2003 |
Tracey Gold | Room to Grow: an Appetite for Life | 2003 |
Traci Lords | Underneath It All | 2003 |
Caroll Spinney | Lessons From a Life in Feathers | 2003 |
Gregory Walcott | Hollywood Adventures | 2003 |
Sean Astin | There and Back Again: an Actor's Tale | 2004 |
Ben Gazzara | In the Moment | 2004 |
Tatum O'Neal | A Paper Life | 2004 |
Alison Sweeney | All the Days of My Life (So Far), AKA I am Sami, Hear Me Roar! | 2004 |
Wil Wheaton | Dancing Barefoot | 2004 |
Alan Alda | Never Have Your Dog Stuffed And Other Things I've Learned | 2005 |
Dirk Benedict | Confessions of a Kamikaze Cowboy | 2005 |
Jane Fonda | My Life So Far, AKA Working It Out | 2005 |
Lauren Bacall | By Myself and Then Some | 2005 |
Tab Hunter | TH Confidential: the Making of a Movie Star | 2005 |
Brooke Shields | Down Came the Rain: My Journey Through Postpartum Depression | 2005 |
Eli Wallach | The Good, the Bad, and Me | 2005 |
Michael York | Are My Blinkers Showing? Film-making & Other Adventures In the New Russia | 2005 |
Nena | "Do You Want to Go With Me?" (Willst du mit mir gehn?) | 2005 |
Adrienne Barbeau | There Are Worse Things I Could Do | 2006 |
Ellen Burstyn | Lessons In Becoming Myself | 2006 |
Carmen Electra | How to Be Sexy | 2006 |
Peter Falk | Just One More Thing | 2006 |
David Hasselhoff | Don't Hassel the Hoff | 2006 |
Denzel Washington | A Hand to Guide Me | 2006 |
Willie Aames | Grace Is Enough | 2007 |
David Cassidy | Could It Be Forever? | 2007 |
Bruce Dern | Things I've Said, But Probably Shouldn't Have: an Unrepentant Memoir | 2007 |
Kirk Douglas | Let's Face It | 2007 |
Rutger Hauer | All Those Moments | 2007 |
Norman Jewison | This Terrible Business Has Been Good To Me | 2007 |
Gabe Kaplan | Kotter's Back | 2007 |
Dave Madden | Reuben on Wry | 2007 |
Alan Young | Mr. Ed & Me & More | 2007 |
Ed Begley, Jr. | Living Like Ed: A Guide to the Eco-Friendly Life | 2008 |
Kirk Cameron | Still Growing | 2008 |
Tony Curtis | American Prince | 2008 |
Mark Goddard | To Space and Back | 2008 |
George Hamilton | Don't Mind If I Do | 2008 |
Chelsea Handler | Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea | 2008 |
Maureen McCormick | Here's the Story: Surviving Marcia Brady and Finding My True Voice | 2008 |
Tori Spelling | Stori Telling | 2008 |
Robert Wagner | Pieces of My Heart | 2008 |
Julie Walters | That's Another Story | 2008 |
Ernest Borgnine | Ernie: the Autobiography | 2009 |
Dustin Diamond | Behind the Bell | 2009 |
Robert Englund | Hollywood Monster | 2009 |
Michael J. Fox | Always Looking Up | 2009 |
Alyssa Milano | Safe at Home | 2009 |
Roger Moore | My Word Is My Bond | 2009 |
Marie Osmond | I May As Well Laugh About It | 2009 |
Mackenzie Phillips | High on Arrival | 2009 |
Patrick Swayze | The Time of My Life | 2009 |
Dick Van Patten | Eighty Is Not Enough: One Actor's Journey Through the American Entertainment Industry | 2009 |
Melissa Sue Anderson | The Way I See It: a Look Back at My Life | 2010 |
Peter Bowles | Ask Me If I'm Happy | 2010 |
Michael Caine | What's It All About; The Elephant to Hollywood | 2010 |
Judi Dench | And, Furthermore... | 2010 |
Shannen Doherty | Badass: A Hard-Earned Guide to Leading Your Life with Style and (the Right) Attitude | 2010 |
Michael J. Fox | A Funny Thing Happened On the Way To the Future | 2010 |
Louis Gossett Jr. | An Actor and a Gentleman | 2010 |
Harry Hamlin | Full Frontal Nudity | 2010 |
Molly Ringwald | Getting the Pretty Back | 2010 |
Tori Spelling | Uncharted Territori | 2010 |
Jerry Weintraub | When I Stop Talking, You'll Know I'm Dead | 2010 |
Meredith Baxter | Untied | 2011 |
Julie Dawn Cole | I Want It NOW! | 2011 |
Barbara Eden | Jeannie Out of the Bottle | 2011 |
James Garner | The Garner Files | 2011 |
Florence Henderson | Life Is Not a Stage: From Broadway Baby to a Lovely Lady and Beyond, with Joel Brokaw | 2011 |
Rob Lowe | Stories I Only Tell My Friends | 2011 |
Julie Newmar | The Conscious Catwoman Explains Life On Earth | 2011 |
David Prowse | Straight From the Force's Mouth | 2011 |
Heather Donahue | Growgirl: How My Life After The Blair Witch Project Went to Pot | 2012 |
Frank Langella | Dropped Names | 2012 |
Julie London | Once I Was a Debutante (published posthumously) | 2012 |
R. Lee Ermey | Gunny's Rules: How To Get Squared Away Like a Marine | 2013 |
Corey Feldman | Corey-ography | 2013 |
Gunnar Hansen | Chainsaw Confidential: Making the World's Most Notorious Horror Movie | 2013 |
Melissa Joan Hart | Melissa Explains It All: Tales from My Abnormally Normal Life | 2013 |
Shirley Jones | SJ: a Memoir, AKA I Don't Jest, and Please Call Me Shirley! | 2013 |
David Suchet | Poirot and Me | 2013 |
Bill Allen | My RAD Career | 2014 |
Cary Elwes | As You Wish | 2014 |
Danielle Fishel | Normally, This Would Be Cause For Concern: Tales of Calamity and Unrelenting Awkwardness | 2014 |
Jennie Garth | Deep Thoughts From a Hollywood Blonde | 2014 |
Anjelica Huston | Watch Me | 2014 |
Ron Perlman | Easy Street, the Hard Way | 2014 |
Brooke Shields | There Was a Little Girl: The Real Story of My Mother and Me | 2014 |
Martin Short | I Must Say: My Life As a Humble Legend | 2014 |
Kathy Coleman | Lost Girl | 2015 |
Mariel Hemingway | Out Came the Sun | 2015 |
Charlotte Rae | The Facts Of My Life, AKA I Haven't Changed; Only My Strokes Are Diff'rent | 2015 |
Burt Reynolds | ...But Enough About Me | 2015 |
Peter Davison | Is There Life Outside the Box? | 2016 |
Peter Engel | I Was Saved by the Bell: Stories of Life, Love, and Dreams that Indeed Came True | 2016 |
Joel Grey | Master of Ceremonies | 2016 |
Jack Wild | It's a Dodger's Life, AKA Reviewing My Situation (published posthumously) | 2016 |
Kathy Coleman | Run, Holly! Run! | 2017 |
William Daniels | There I Go Again | 2017 |
Anna Faris | Unqualified | 2017 |
Gary Busey | Busey-isms | 2018 |
Olivia Hussey | The Girl On the Balcony | 2018 |
Patrick Kilpatrick | Dying For a Living: Sins and Confessions of a Hollywood Villain-Turned-Libertine Patriot | 2018 |
Nick Nolte | Rebel: My Life Outside the Lines | 2018 |
Leif Garrett | Idol Truth | 2019 |
Val Kilmer | I'm Your Huckleberry | 2020 |
Gabriel Byrne | Walking With Ghosts | 2021 |
Hayley Mills | Forever Young | 2021 |
Will Smith | Will, AKA Where There's a Way | 2021 |
Jamie Lynn Spears | Things I Should Have Said | 2021 |
Sharon Stone | The Beauty of Living Twice | 2021 |
Mena Suvari | The Great Peace | 2021 |
History | ||
Edward Gibbon | Memoirs of My Life and Writings | 17xx |
Henry Adams | The Education of Henry Adams | 1907 |
Journalism | ||
Lowell Thomas | Good Evening, Everybody | 1976 |
Jessica Savitch | Anchorwoman | 1982 |
Literature | ||
Libanius | Oration | 0374 |
Sei Shōnagon | The Pillow Book | 1002 |
Kamo No Chomei | Hōjōki | 1212 |
Leonor López de Córdoba | Memorias (López de Córdoba) | 1400 |
Margery Kempe | The Book of Margery Kempe | 1436 |
Girolamo Cardano | The Book of My Life | 1576 |
Michel de Montaigne | Of the Education of Children | 1580 |
Abraham Cowley | Of Myself | 1668 |
Colley Cibber | An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Written by Himself | 1740 |
Voltaire | Mémoires pour servir à la vie de M. de Voltaire, écrits par lui-même | 1759 |
Jean-Jacques Rousseau | Confessions | 1770 |
Benjamin Franklin | The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin | 1791 |
Walter Scott | "Memoirs" | 1808–1826 |
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Dichtung und Wahrheit | 1811-1833 |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Biographia Literaria | 1817 |
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Italian Journey | 1817 |
Thomas De Quincey | Confessions of an English Opium-Eater | 1821 |
James Hogg | Altrive Tales: Featuring a Memoir of the Author's Life | 1832 |
Charles Dickens | Autobiographical Fragment | 1847 |
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | The Autobiography Of Goethe: Truth And Poetry, From My Own Life | 1848 |
William Wordsworth | The Prelude | 1850 |
Leo Tolstoy | Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth | 1856 |
Alexandre Dumas | Mes Mémoires | 1856 |
John Neal | Wandering Recollections of a Somewhat Busy Life: An Autobiography | 1869 |
Sara Coleridge | Memoir | 1874 |
Thomas Carlyle | Reminiscences | 1881 |
Ambrose Bierce | What I Saw of Shiloh | 1881 |
Anthony Trollope | An Autobiography | 1883 |
Walt Whitman | Specimen Days | 1883 |
Leo Tolstoy | A Confession | 1884 |
John Ruskin | Praeterita: Outlines of Scenes and Thoughts Perhaps Worthy of Memory in My Past Life | 1885 |
Oscar Wilde | De Profundis | 1897 |
Margaret Oliphant | The Autobiography of Margaret Oliphant | 1899 |
George Bernard Shaw | Shaw: an Autobiography, 1898–1950: The Playwright Years | 1907 |
Victor Hugo | Victor Hugo's Intellectual Autobiography | 1907 |
Henry James | A Small Boy and Others | 1913 |
Maxim Gorky | My Childhood | 1913 |
William Butler Yeats | Reveries Over Childhood and Youth | 1916 |
Mark Twain | Autobiography of Mark Twain | 1910 |
Henry James | Notes of a Son and Brother | 1914 |
Mary Augusta Ward | A Writer's Recollections | 1918 |
Robert Graves | Good-Bye to All That | 1929 |
Lincoln Steffens | Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens | 1931 |
Walter Benjamin | Unpacking My Library | 1931 |
Vera Brittain | Testament of Youth | 1933 |
Gertrude Stein | The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas | 1933 |
H. G. Wells | Experiment in Autobiography | 1934 |
William Butler Yeats | Autobiography | 1936 |
G. K. Chesterton | The Autobiography of G.K. Chesterton | 1936 |
Claude McKay | A Long Way From Home | 1937 |
Noël Coward | Present Indicative | 1937 |
Virginia Woolf | Moments of Being | 1938 |
William Butler Yeats | Autobiographies of William Butler Yeats | 1938 |
A. A. Milne | It's Too Late Now | 1939 |
John Buchan | Memory Hold the Door | 1940 |
F. Scott Fitzgerald | A Short Autobiography | 1940 |
Zora Neale Hurston | Dust Tracks on a Road | 1942 |
Stefan Zweig | The World of Yesterday | 1942 |
Dylan Thomas | Holiday Memory | 1942 |
Richard Wright | Black Boy | 1945 |
George Orwell | Such, Such Were the Joys... | 1947 |
Nirad C. Chaudhuri | The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian | 1951 |
Christy Brown | My Left Foot | 1954 |
Elie Wiesel | Night | 1955 |
Mary McCarthy | Memories of a Catholic Girlhood | 1957 |
Mary McCarthy | How I Grew | 1987 |
P. G. Wodehouse | Over Seventy | 1957 |
Dick Francis | The Sport of Queens | 1957 |
Simone de Beauvoir | The Prime of Life | 1960 |
John Betjeman | Summoned by Bells | 1960 |
Laurie Lee | Cider with Rosie | 1960 |
Evelyn Waugh | A Little Learning | 1966 |
Vladimir Nabokov | Speak, Memory | 1966 |
P. J. Kavanagh | The Perfect Stranger | 1966 |
C. S. Lewis | Surprised by Joy | 1966 |
Rosamond Lehmann | The Swan in the Evening: Fragments of an Inner Life | 1967 |
Edward Abbey | Desert Solitaire | 1968 |
J. R. Ackerley | My Father and Myself | 1968 |
Czesław Miłosz | Native Realm: A Search for Self-Definition | 1968 |
Laurie Lee | As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning | 1969 |
Maya Angelou | I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings | 1969 |
Anaïs Nin | The Diary of Anaïs Nin | 1976 |
Nadezhda Mandelstam | Hope Against Hope | 1970 |
Graham Greene | A Sort of Life | 1971 |
Wole Soyinka | The Man Died: Prison Notes | 1971 |
Mario Puzo | The Godfather Papers & Other Confessions | 1972 |
Joyce Maynard | Looking Back: A Chronicle of Growing Up Old in the Sixties | 1973 |
James Baldwin | The Devil Finds Work | 1976 |
Pablo Neruda | Memoirs (Confieso que he vivido: Memorias) | 1977 |
Agatha Christie | Agatha Christie: An Autobiography | 1977 |
Wole Soyinka | Aké: The Years of Childhood | 1981 |
John Mortimer | Clinging to the Wreckage: A Part of Life | 1982 |
Michael Ondaatje | Running in the Family | 1982 |
Janet Frame | To the Is-land | 1982 |
Janet Frame | An Angel at My Table and The Envoy From Mirror City | 1984 |
Eudora Welty | One Writer's Beginnings | 1983 |
Roald Dahl | Boy: Tales of Childhood | 1984 |
Roald Dahl | Going Solo | 1986 |
Anthony Burgess | Little Wilson and Big God | 1986 |
Annie Dillard | An American Childhood | 1987 |
James A. Michener | The World Is My Home: A Memoir | 1992 |
Nina Berberova | The Italics are Mine | 1993 |
Doris Lessing | Under My Skin: Volume One of My Autobiography, to 1949 | 1994 |
Alan Sillitoe | Life Without Armour | 1995 |
J. M. Coetzee | Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life | 1997 |
Doris Lessing | Walking in the Shade: Volume Two of My Autobiography, 1949 to 1962 | 1997 |
René Galand | War Hentoù an Tremened | 2002 |
Amos Oz | A Tale of Love and Darkness | 2002 |
Maya Angelou | The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou | 2002 |
Orhan Pamuk | Istanbul: Memories and the City | 2003 |
Gay Talese | A Writer's Life | 2006 |
Roald Dahl | More About Boy (published posthumously) | 2008 |
Jacqueline Wilson | Jacky Daydream & My Secret Diary | 2008 |
Andrea Ashworth | Once in a House on Fire | 2011 |
Paul Kipchumba | Turning Point in My Life | 2016 |
Mathematics | ||
G. H. Hardy | A Mathematician's Apology | 1940 |
Norbert Wiener | I Am a Mathematician | 1964 |
Bertrand Russell | Autobiography | 1967 |
Freeman Dyson | Disturbing the Universe | 1979 |
Paul Halmos | I Want to be a Mathematician: An Automathography | 1985 |
Stanislaw Ulam | Adventures of a Mathematician | 1991 |
André Weil | The Apprenticeship of a Mathematician | 1992 |
Gian-Carlo Rota | Indiscrete Thoughts | 1998 |
Vladimir Arnold | Yesterday and Long Ago | 2006 |
Neal Koblitz | Random Curves: Journeys of a Mathematician | 2007 |
Goro Shimura | The Map of My Life | 2008 |
Edward Frenkel | Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality | 2014 |
Michael Harris | Mathematics without Apologies: Portrait of a Problematic Vocation | 2015 |
Cédric Villani | Birth of a Theorem: A Mathematical Adventure | 2015 |
Medicine | ||
Albert Schweitzer | Out of My Life and Thought | 1933 |
Sandra Lee | Put Your Best Face Forward | 2019 |
Military | ||
Ulysses S. Grant | Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant | 1885 |
Manfred von Richthofen | The Red Baron (Der rote Kampfflieger) | 1917 |
Heinz Guderian | Panzer Leader | 1950 |
Music | ||
Hector Berlioz | Mémoires | 1870 |
Elsa Reger | Mein Leben mit und für Max Reger (My life with and for Max Reger) | 1930 |
Billie Holiday | Lady Sings the Blues | 1956 |
Pat Boone | A New Song | 1970 |
Pablo Casals | Joys and Sorrows: Reflections | 1970 |
Charles Mingus | Beneath the Underdog | 1971 |
Paul Bowles | Without Stopping | 1972 |
Tom Sullivan | If You Could See What I Hear | 1975 |
Tom Sullivan | Adventures In Darkness | 1976 |
Liberace | The Things I Love | 1977 |
Ray Charles | Brother Ray | 1978 |
Pinky Tomlin | The Object of My Affection | 1981 |
Dizzy Gillespie | To Be or Not to Bop | 1982 |
Lennon Sisters | Same Song, Separate Voices | 1985 |
Davy Jones | They Made a Monkee Out Of Me, AKA Do I Tell It Like I'm Joking? | 1986 |
Tina Turner | I, Tina | 1986 |
Michael Jackson | Moonwalk | 1988 |
Frank Zappa | The Real FZ Book | 1988 |
Debbie Gibson | Between the Lines | 1989 |
Sonny Bono | And the Beat Goes On | 1991 |
Vanilla Ice | Ice By Ice | 1991 |
Naomi Judd | Love Can Build a Bridge | 1993 |
Roy Clark | My Life – In Spite of Myself | 1994 |
Ice-T | The Ice Opinion | 1994 |
Dolly Parton | My Life and Other Unfinished Business | 1994 |
Boy George | Taking It Like a Man | 1995 |
Luciano Pavarotti | My World | 1995 |
Waylon Jennings | Waylon | 1996 |
Aerosmith | Walk This Way | 1997 |
Chuck D | Fight the Power | 1997 |
John Denver | Take Me Home | 1997 |
LL Cool J | I Make My Own Rules | 1997 |
Jimmy Buffett | A Pirate Looks At 50 | 1998 |
Marilyn Manson | The Long Hard Road Out of Hell | 1998 |
Ray Manzarek | Light My Fire: Life With the Doors | 1998 |
Yehudi Menuhin | Unfinished Journey: Twenty Years Later | 1999 |
Donny Osmond | Life Is Just What You Make It | 1999 |
Meat Loaf | To Hell and Back | 2000 |
Britney Spears | Heart to Heart | 2000 |
Gene Simmons | KISS and Makeup | 2002 |
Carnie Wilson | I'm Still Hungry | 2003 |
Sting | Broken Music | 2003 |
Jimmy Dean | Thirty Years of Sausage & Fifty Years of Ham | 2004 |
Bob Dylan | Chronicles: Volume One | 2004 |
Merle Haggard | My House of Memories | 2004 |
Anthony Kiedis | Scar Tissue | 2004 |
Nena | "Do You Want to Go With Me?" (Willst du mit mir gehn?) | 2005 |
Robie Lester | Lingerie For Hookers In the Snow | 2006 |
Alice Cooper | Golf Monster: A Rock 'n' Roller's 12 Steps to Becoming a Golf Addict | 2007 |
Mike Oldfield | Changeling | 2007 |
Horace Silver | Let's Get to the Nitty Gritty | 2007 |
Slash | It Seems Excessive...But That Doesn't Mean it Didn't Happen | 2007 |
Eminem | The Way I Am | 2008 |
Westlife | Our Story | 2008 |
Carnie Wilson | Gut Feelings | 2008 |
Belinda Carlisle | Lips Unsealed | 2010 |
Keith Richards | Life | 2010 |
Rick Springfield | Late, Late at Night | 2010 |
Alice Bag | Violence Girl | 2011 |
Ace Frehley | No Regrets | 2011 |
Shania Twain | From This Moment On | 2011 |
Peter Criss | Makeup to Breakup: My Life In and Out of KISS | 2012 |
Elton John | Love Is the Cure | 2012 |
Dee Snider | Shut Up and Give Me the Mic | 2012 |
Pete Townshend | Who I Am | 2012 |
Shane Filan | My Side of Life | 2014 |
Edgar Froese | Force Majeure: 47 Years of Tangerine Dream-ing | 2014 |
Paul Stanley | Face the Music: A Life Exposed | 2014 |
Sir Tom Jones | Over the Top & Back | 2015 |
Sebastian Bach | 18 & Life on Skid Row | 2016 |
Thomas Dolby | The Speed of Sound | 2016 |
Lita Ford | Living Like a Runaway | 2016 |
Grace Jones | I'll Never Write My Memoirs | 2016 |
Toni Tennille | TT: a Memoir, AKA The Captain & I | 2016 |
Charlie Daniels | Never Look At the Empty Seats | 2017 |
Samantha Fox | Forever, AKA A Fox for All Centuries | 2017 |
Art Garfunkel | What Is It All But Luminous? | 2017 |
Mike Nesmith | Infinite Tuesday: an Autobiographical Riff | 2017 |
John Oates | Change of Seasons | 2017 |
Roger Daltrey | Thanks a Lot, Mr. Kibblewhite | 2018 |
K.K. Downing | Heavy Duty: My Days & Nights In Judas Priest | 2018 |
Drew Fortier | Dark, Depressing, and Hilarious | 2018 |
Steve Lukather | The Gospel According to Luke | 2018 |
John Georgiadis | Bow to Baton: A Leader’s Life | 2019 |
Andrew Ridgeley | WHAM!, George Michael, & Me | 2019 |
Stephen Morris (musician) | Record Play Pause | 2019 |
Mariah Carey | The Meaning of M.C. | 2020 |
Jessica Simpson | Open Book | 2020 |
Kathy Valentine | All I Ever Wanted: A Rock 'N' Roll Memoir | 2020 |
Richard Marx | Stories to Tell | 2021 |
Stephen Morris (musician) | Fast Forward | 2021 |
Gina Schock | Made In Hollywood: All Access with the Go-Go’s | 2021 |
Natural History | ||
Charles Darwin | The Recollections of the Development of My Mind and Character | 1876 |
Charles Darwin | The Autobiography of Charles Darwin | 1887 |
Philosophy | ||
Jean-Paul Sartre | The Words | 1964 |
David Hume | My Own Life | 1777 |
John Stuart Mill | Autobiography | 1874 |
Paramahansa Yogananda | Autobiography of a Yogi | 1955 |
Simone de Beauvoir | The Prime of Life | 1960 |
Physics | ||
Philip M. Morse | In at the Beginnings: A Physicist's Life | 1976 |
Richard Feynman | Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! | 1985 |
Luis Alvarez | Alvarez: Adventures of a Physicist | 1987 |
Emilio Segrè | A Mind Always in Motion | 1993 |
Fay Ajzenberg-Selove | A Matter of Choices: Memoirs of a Female Physicist | 1994 |
Alvin M. Weinberg | The First Nuclear Era: The Life and Times of a Technological Fixer | 1994 |
John Wheeler | Geons, Black Holes, and Quantum Foam: A Life in Physics | 1998 |
Maurice Wilkins | Maurice Wilkins: The Third Man of the Double Helix | 2003 |
Isaak Khalatnikov | From the Atomic Bomb to the Landau Institute: Autobiography. Top Non-Secret | 2012 |
Rudolf Peierls | Bird of Passage: Recollections of a Physicist | 2014 |
Politics | ||
Marcus Aurelius | Meditations | 0175 |
Manuel Belgrano | Autobiography of Manuel Belgrano | 1814 |
Frederick Douglass | Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave | 1845 |
Frederick Douglass | My Bondage and My Freedom | 1855 |
Joaquim Nabuco | Minha formação | 1900 |
Booker T. Washington | Up from Slavery | 1901 |
Theodore Roosevelt | Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography | 1913 |
Stephen A. Douglas | Autobiography of Stephen A. Douglas | 1913 |
Emmeline Pankhurst | My Own Story | 1914 |
Mary Harris Jones | Autobiography of Mother Jones | 1925 |
Adolf Hitler | Mein Kampf | 1925 |
Benito Mussolini | My Autobiography: With the Political and Social Doctrine of Fascism | 1928 |
Calvin Coolidge | The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge | 1929 |
Winston Churchill | My Early Life | 1930 |
Jawaharlal Nehru | An Autobiography | 1936 |
Manny Shinwell | Conflict Without Malice | 1955 |
Winston Churchill | Memoirs of the Second World War | 1959 |
Malcolm X | The Autobiography of Malcolm X | 1965 |
Manny Shinwell | I've Lived Through It All | 1973 |
Manny Shinwell | Lead With the Left: My First Ninety-Six Years | 1981 |
Roy Hattersley | A Yorkshire Boyhood | 1983 |
Ronald Reagan | An American Life | 1990 |
Margaret Thatcher | The Downing Street Years | 1993 |
Dan Quayle | Standing Firm | 1994 |
Nelson Mandela | Long Walk to Freedom | 1995 |
Golda Meir | My Life | 1973 |
Barack Obama | Dreams from My Father | 1995 |
Dan Quayle | The American Family: Discovering the Values that Make Us Strong | 1996 |
Dan Quayle | Worth Fighting For | 1999 |
Bill Clinton | My Life | 2004 |
Medgar Evers | The Autobiography of Medgar Evers | 2005 |
Barack Obama | The Audacity of Hope | 2006 |
Fidel Castro | My Life: A Spoken Autobiography | 2006 |
Ronald Reagan | The Reagan Diaries | 2007 |
John Howard | Lazarus Rising: A Personal and Political Autobiography | 2010 |
Malala Yousafzai | I Am Malala | 2013 |
Julia Gillard | My Story | 2014 |
Jimmy Carter | A Full Life: Reflections at 90 | 2015 |
Sarah Mcbride | Tomorrow Will Be Different | 2018 |
Psychology | ||
Sigmund Freud | An Autobiographical Study | 1925 |
Carl Jung | Memories, Dreams, Reflections | 1962 |
Sports | ||
Babe Ruth | The Babe Ruth Story | 1948 |
Joe DiMaggio | Lucky to Be a Yankee | 1951 |
Ted Husing | My Eyes Are In My Heart | 1959 |
Jerry Kramer | Instant Replay | 1968 |
Earl Weaver | Winning | 1972 |
Muhammad Ali | The Greatest: My Own Story | 1975 |
Bill Russell | Second Wind: The Memoirs of an Opinionated Man | 1979 |
Earl Weaver | It's What You Learn After You Know It All That Counts | 1983 |
Howard Cosell | I Never Played the Game | 1985 |
Kapil Dev | By God's Decree | 1985 |
Mark "Jacko" Jackson | Dumb Like a Fox | 1986 |
Kapil Dev | Cricket My Style | 1987 |
John Matuszak | Cruising With the Tooz | 1987 |
Steve Howe | Between the Lines: My Struggle to Escape the Nightmare of Addiction | 1989 |
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar | Giant Steps | 1990 |
Elizabeth Manley | Thumbs Up | 1990 |
Nancy Kerrigan | In My Own Words | 1996 |
Dominique Moceanu | DM: an Autobiography | 1996 |
Tara Lipinski | Triumph on Ice | 1998 |
Jesse Ventura | I Ain't Got Time To Bleed | 1998 |
Durwood Merrill | You're Out and You're Ugly Too! Confessions of an Umpire With Attitude | 1999 |
Summer Sanders | Champions Are Raised, Not Born | 1999 |
Tony Hawk | Occupation: Skateboarder | 2000 |
Pete Sampras | A Champion's Mind: Lessons From a Life In Tennis | 2000 |
Tiger Woods | How I Play Golf | 2001 |
Rowdy Roddy Piper | In the Pit | 2002 |
Earl Weaver | Weaver on Strategy | 2002 |
Ken Kaiser | Planet of the Umps: My Life Behind the Plate, with Kevin Fisher | 2003 |
Sasha Cohen | Fire On Ice | 2005 |
Katarina Witt | Only With Passion | 2005 |
Randy Couture | Becoming the Natural: My Life In and Out of the Cage | 2008 |
Evander Holyfield | Becoming EH: a Fighter's Journey | 2008 |
Tito Ortiz | This Is Gonna Hurt: the Life of a Mixed Martial Arts Champion | 2008 |
Hulk Hogan | My Life Outside the Ring | 2009 |
Andre Agassi | Open: An Autobiography | 2010 |
Big John McCarthy | Are You Ready? Let's Get It On! The Making of MMA and Its Ultimate Referee | 2011 |
Shawn Johnson | Winning Balance: What I’ve Learned So Far about Love, Faith, and Living Your Dreams | 2013 |
Milkha Singh | The Race of My Life | 2013 |
Yuvraj Singh | The Test of My Life | 2013 |
Mike Tyson | Undisputed Truth | 2013 |
Sachin Tendulkar | Playing It My Way | 2014 |
Nastia Liukin | Finding My Shine | 2015 |
Religion/Theology | ||
Augustine of Hippo | Confessions | 0398 |
Albert Schweitzer | Out of My Life and Thought | 1933 |
Dalai Lama | My Land and My People | 1962 |
Edith Stein | Life in a Jewish Family | 1986 |
Pope John Paul II | Gift and Mystery | 1996 |
Robert H. Schuller | My Journey: From an Iowa Farm to a Cathedral of Dreams | 2001 |
Oswald Rufeisen | I Swallowed the Catch of Queen of Carmel | 2001 |
Morris Cerullo | The Legend of Morris Cerullo: How God Used an Orphan to Change the World | 2016 |
Uncategorized | ||
Al-Ghazali | The Deliverer from Error | 1100 |
Peter Abelard | Historia Calamitatum | 1132 |
Firoz Shah Tuglaq | Futuhat-e-firozshahi | 1351 |
Tuzuk-i-Babri | Baburnama | 1520 |
Teresa of Ávila | Life of St. Teresa of Jesus | 1567 |
Benvenuto Cellini | The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini | 1570 |
Gerolamo Cardano | De Vita Propria/De Propria Vita Liber | 1576 |
Jahangir | Tuzuk-i-Jahangiri | 1610 |
John Bunyan | Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners | 1666 |
Giambattista Vico | The Autobiography of Giambattista Vico | 1741 |
Charlotte Charke | A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Charlotte Charke (Youngest Daughter of Colley Cibber, Esq;) | 1755 |
Elizabeth Ashbridge | Some Account of the Fore Part of the Life of Elizabeth Ashbridge | 1755 |
Jonathan Edwards | Personal Narrative | 1768 |
Olaudah Equiano | The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano | 1789 |
Thomas Jefferson | Autobiography | 1790 |
Mary Robinson | Memoirs of the Late Mrs. Robinson, Written by Herself | 1801 |
Shen Fu | Six Records of a Floating Life | 1808 |
William Cowper | Memoir of the Early Life of William Cowper, Esq., Written by Himself | 1816 |
Harriette Wilson | Memoirs of Harriette Wilson | 1825 |
Giacomo Casanova | Histoire de ma vie | 1826 |
Cornelio Saavedra | Memoria autógrafa | 1829 |
Richard Henry Dana Jr. | Two Years Before the Mast | 1840 |
Alphonse de Lamartine | Les Confidences | 1849 |
François-René de Chateaubriand | Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe | 1849 |
George Sand | Story of My Life | 1854 |
P. T. Barnum | The Life of P.T. Barnum, Written by Himself | 1855 |
Kit Carson | Memoirs | 1856 |
Harriet Jacobs | Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl | 1861 |
John Henry Newman | Apologia Pro Vita Sua | 1864 |
Harriet Martineau | Harriet Martineau's Autobiography | 1887 |
Thomas Henry Huxley | Autobiography | 1890 |
Stendhal | The Life of Henry Brulard | 1890 |
Stendhal | Memoirs of an Egotist | 1892 |
Thérèse of Lisieux | The Story of a Soul | 1897 |
Buffalo Bill | The Life and Adventures of Buffalo Bill | 1879 |
Helen Keller | The Story of My Life | 1903 |
Geronimo | Geronimo's Story of His Life | 1906 |
Edmund Gosse | Father and Son | 1907 |
Annie Besant | An Autobiography | 1908 |
James Weldon Johnson | The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man | 1912 |
John Muir | The Story of My Boyhood and Youth | 1913 |
Bertrand Russell | The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell (Vol. 1) | 1914 |
Nikola Tesla | My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla | 1919 |
Zitkala-Sa | Impressions of an Indian Childhood | 1921 |
Constantin Stanislavski | My Life in Art | 1924 |
Mahatma Gandhi | The Story of My Experiments with Truth | 1927 |
Francis Yeats-Brown | The Lives of a Bengal Lancer | 1930 |
Black Elk | Black Elk Speaks | 1931 |
Beryl Markham | West with the Night | 1942 |
Bertrand Russell | The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell (Vol. 2) | 1944 |
Albert Einstein | Autobiographical Notes | 1945 |
Primo Levi | If This Is a Man | 1947 |
Anne Frank | The Diary of a Young Girl | 1947 |
Thomas Merton | The Seven Storey Mountain | 1948 |
William Carlos Williams | The Autobiography of William Carlos Williams | 1948 |
H. V. Kaltenborn | Fifty Fabulous Years | 1950 |
A. J. Cronin | Adventures in Two Worlds | 1952 |
Dorothy Day | The Long Loneliness | 1952 |
Whittaker Chambers | Witness | 1952 |
Bing Crosby | Call Me Lucky | 1953 |
Gerald Durrell | My Family and Other Animals | 1956 |
Jessica Mitford | Hons and Rebels | 1960 |
Chet Huntley | The Generous Years | 1968 |
Florida Scott-Maxwell | The Measure of My Days | 1968 |
Quentin Crisp | The Naked Civil Servant | 1968 |
Bertrand Russell | The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell (Vol. 3) | 1969 |
Albert Speer | Inside the Third Reich | 1970 |
Marguerite de Angeli | Butter at the Old Price | 1971 |
Michael Collins | Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journeys | 1974 |
Diana Mitford | A Life of Contrasts | 1977 |
Sheldon Vanauken | A Severe Mercy | 1977 |
Albert Facey | A Fortunate Life | 1981 |
Richard Rodriguez | Hunger of Memory | 1982 |
Joseph D. Pistone | Donnie Brasco: My Undercover Life in the Mafia | 1988 |
Jamaica Kincaid | A Small Place | 1988 |
Janet Frame | An Autobiography | 1989 |
Eva Hoffman | Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language | 1989 |
William Styron | Darkness Visible | 1990 |
Anthony Burgess | You've Had Your Time | 1990 |
Laurie Lee | A Moment of War | 1991 |
Brian Keenan | An Evil Calling | 1991 |
Dalai Lama | Freedom in Exile | 1991 |
Kurt Vonnegut | Fates Worse Than Death | 1991 |
La Toya Jackson | La Toya: Growing Up in the Jackson Family | 1991 |
M. F. K. Fisher | Long Ago in France: The Years in Dijon | 1991 |
Reinaldo Arenas | Before Night Falls | 1992 |
M. F. K. Fisher | To Begin Again: Stories and Memoirs 1908-1929 | 1992 |
Chang Jung | Wild Swans | 1992 |
Mario Vargas Llosa | A Fish in the Water | 1993 |
Blake Morrison | And When Did You Last See Your Father? | 1993 |
M. F. K. Fisher | Stay Me, Oh Comfort Me: Journals and Stories 1933-1941 | 1993 |
Victor Villanueva | Bootstraps: From an American Academic of Color | 1993 |
Naguib Mahfouz | Echoes of an Autobiography | 1994 |
Wole Soyinka | Ibadan: The Penkelemes Years: A Memoir 1946-65 | 1994 |
Tobias Wolff | In Pharaoh's Army | 1994 |
Elie Wiesel | All Rivers Run to the Sea: Memoirs (Vol. 1) | 1995 |
Betty White | BW: In Person and Here We Go Again: My Life In Television | both 1995 |
Wolfman Jack | Have Mercy | 1995 |
M. F. K. Fisher | Last House: Reflections, Dreams and Observations 1943-1991 | 1995 |
Gore Vidal | Palimpsest: A Memoir | 1995 |
Mary Karr | The Liars' Club | 1995 |
Margaret Thatcher | The Path to Power | 1995 |
Frank McCourt | Angela's Ashes | 1996 |
Isaac Bashevis Singer | Love and Exile: An Autobiographical Trilogy | 1996 |
Patrick Chamoiseau | School Days (Une enfance Créole) | 1996 |
Harold Brodkey | The Wild Darkness: The Story of My Death | 1996 |
Spalding Gray | It's a Slippery Slope | 1997 |
David Sedaris | Naked | 1997 |
Jesse Lee Kercheval | Space: A Memoir | 1998 |
Elie Wiesel | And the Sea is Never Full: Memoirs (Vol. 3) | 1999 |
John McCain | Faith of My Fathers | 1999 |
Marc Summers | Everything in Its Place | 1999 |
Ariel Dorfman | Heading South, Looking North: A Bilingual Journey | 1999 |
Taslima Nasrin | My Girlhood | 1999 |
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam | Wings of Fire | 1999 |
Dave Eggers | A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius | 2000 |
Lorna Sage | Bad Blood, A Memoir | 2000 |
Edward Said | Out of Place: A Memoir | 2000 |
Haven Kimmel | A Girl Named Zippy | 2001 |
Paula Fox | Borrowed Finery | 2001 |
Keith Jessop | Goldfinder | 2001 |
Stan Lee | Excelsior | 2002 |
Taslima Nasrin | Gusty Wind | 2002 |
Gabriel García Márquez | Living to Tell the Tale | 2002 |
J. M. Coetzee | Youth: Scenes from Provincial Life II | 2002 |
Nuala O'Faolain | Almost There: The Onward Journey of a Dublin Woman | 2003 |
Barry Norman | And Why Not? Memoirs of a Film Lover | 2003 |
Craig Thompson | Blankets | 2003 |
Sherwin B. Nuland | Lost in America: A Journey with My Father | 2003 |
Azar Nafisi | Reading Lolita in Tehran | 2003 |
Taslima Nasrin | Speak Up or Split Into Two | 2003 |
Carlos Eire | Waiting for Snow in Havana | 2003 |
Aron Ralston | Between a Rock and a Hard Place | 2004 |
Emanuel Derman | My Life as a Quant: Reflections on Physics and Finance | 2004 |
Anthony Kiedis | Scar Tissue | 2004 |
Taslima Nasrin | Those Dark Days | 2004 |
Kapil Dev | Straight From the Heart | 2004 |
William F. Buckley, Jr. | Miles Gone By: A Literary Autobiography | 2005 |
Chelsea Handler | My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands | 2005 |
Jeannette Walls | The Glass Castle | 2005 |
Taslima Nasrin | I Am Not Fine, But You Stay Well My Beloved Country | 2006 |
Gordon Ramsay | Humble Pie | 2006 |
Wole Soyinka | You Must Set Forth At Dawn | 2006 |
Julia Child | My Life in France | 2006 |
Ishmael Beah | A Long Way Gone | 2007 |
Miley Cyrus | Miles To Go | 2008 |
Bob Barker | Priceless Memories | 2009 |
Lizzie Velásquez | Lizzie Beautiful, The Lizzie Velásquez Story | 2010 |
Taslima Nasrin | Nothing Is There | 2010 |
Abhinav Bindra | A Shot at History | 2011 |
Marcus Samuelsson | Yes, Chef: A Memoir | 2012 |
Barry Norman | See You in the Morning | 2013 |
Zohre Esmaeli | Meine neue Freiheit. Von Kabul über den Laufsteg zu mir selbst | 2014 |
Ree Drummond | Frontier Follies: Adventures in Marriage and Motherhood in the Middle of Nowhere | 2020 |
Alex Trebek | And the Answer Is...Reflections on My Life | 2020 |
Ranjan Gogoi | Justice for the Judge | 2021 |
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- ^ This would later be re-edited and published in English as Stuka Pilot.
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