# Best Autobiography Titles **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 14, 2015, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-autobiography-titles/734636 "2015-10-14T15:37:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![stillownedbysetters](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/41988e/32.png) [@stillownedbysetters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stillownedbysetters)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2015, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-autobiography-titles/734636/21 "2015-10-15T02:30:40Z")
My favorite has always been \*Everyone is Entitled to My Opinion \*by David Brinckley. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2015, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-autobiography-titles/734636/22 "2015-10-15T02:44:33Z")
Stephen Fry’s _Moab is my Washpot_. > [@](#): > > The title, never explained in the text of the book, is a verse found in Psalm 60 and Psalm 108. Through wearing sandals, people’s feet would become filthy in the dusty desert environment and upon entering a home feet would be washed with water by pouring water over them into a washpot. Moab, which had threatened Israel, was to be so completely subdued, and so became likened to a wash pot or basin.[2] This title was selected because Fry saw the book as “scrubbing at the grime of years”.[3] > > The Oxford English Dictionary gives “moab (n.): 2. Chiefly in English public schools: an outdoor conduit for washing; a tub, trough, or other container for water; a washroom.” ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2015, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-autobiography-titles/734636/23 "2015-10-15T12:00:57Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > Stephen Fry’s _Moab is my Washpot_. The Oxford English Dictionary gives “moab (n.): 2. Chiefly in English public schools: an outdoor conduit for washing; a tub, trough, or other container for water; a washroom.” Just don’t tell the people in Moab, Utah about this\* \*Moab is the town just outside Arches National Park, where the opening to _Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade_ – among other flicks – was filmed. Lotsa motels filled with tourists. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2015, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-autobiography-titles/734636/24 "2015-10-15T13:00:24Z")
**Nigger** by _Dick Gregory_. He explained to his mother, “Whenever you hear the word ‘Nigger’, you’ll know their advertising my book.” **X-Ray: The Unauthorized Autobiography** by _Ray Davies_ in which Davies is an eccentric old man telling his life story to a nameless young interviewer working for the world-ruling conglomerate called “The Corporation.” ---
**Author:** ![janis\_and\_c0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/janis_and_c0/32/21_2.png) [@janis\_and\_c0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/janis_and_c0)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2015, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-autobiography-titles/734636/25 "2015-10-15T13:01:43Z")
Desi Arnaz – _ **A Book** _ and it’s sequel _Another Book._ ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2015, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-autobiography-titles/734636/26 "2015-10-15T13:46:30Z")
Looking Up–Michael J. Fox (5’4") Still Me - Christopher Reeve As for bios, John Keat’s You Might As Well Live: The Lives and Times of Dorothy Parker, inspired by her famous poem Resume: Razors pain you; Rivers are damp; Acids stain you; And drugs cause cramp. Guns aren’t lawful; Nooses give; Gas smells awful; You might as well live ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2015, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-autobiography-titles/734636/27 "2015-10-15T14:08:17Z")
For bios, my favorite title is the biography of Joseph Smith, founder of Mormonism. Its title is **No Man Knows my History** , a statement made by Smith in one of his speeches. The author, Fawn Brodie, was a woman. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2015, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-autobiography-titles/734636/28 "2015-10-15T17:33:41Z")
_If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor_ Any guesses? Bruce Campbell ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2015, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-autobiography-titles/734636/29 "2015-10-15T17:56:52Z")
_A View From A Broad_, Bette Midler ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2015, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-autobiography-titles/734636/30 "2015-10-19T15:53:48Z")
**I Want It Now!** , by Julie Dawn Cole, who played Veruca Salt in **Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory**. **This Is A Book** , by Demetri Martin. **Dirty Jokes and Beer** , by Drew Carey. **Hyperbole and a Half** , by Ellie Brosh. Yeah, it was the title of her blog/comic first, but it’s still a good title. **Furiously Happy** , by Jenny Lawson, about battling mental illness. ---
**Author:** ![drad\_dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@drad\_dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drad_dog)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2015, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-autobiography-titles/734636/31 "2015-10-19T16:01:53Z")
“Bring on The Empty Horses” by David Niven ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2015, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-autobiography-titles/734636/32 "2015-10-19T16:01:59Z")
_**I Am America (And So Can You!)**_ by Stephen Colbert of _The Colbert Report_ ---
**Author:** ![Encinitas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@Encinitas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Encinitas)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2015, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-autobiography-titles/734636/33 "2015-10-19T20:56:25Z")
_The Sensuous Dirty Old Man_ by [Dr. A](http://www.amazon.com/The-Sensuous-Dirty-Old-Man/dp/0802703631). ---
**Author:** ![Damfino](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Damfino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damfino)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2015, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-autobiography-titles/734636/34 "2015-10-19T21:57:46Z")
That was not really an autobiography . It was a parody and response to \* The Sensuous Man \* by M and \* The Sensuous Woman \* by J. His autobiographies were \* In Memory Yet Green , In Joy Still felt , and I.Asimov \* ---
**Author:** ![Damfino](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Damfino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damfino)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2015, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-autobiography-titles/734636/35 "2015-10-19T22:02:08Z")
Michael Caine , _What’s it All About ?_ ---
**Author:** ![jimbuff314](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c57346/32.png) [@jimbuff314](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jimbuff314)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2015, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-autobiography-titles/734636/36 "2015-10-19T22:18:19Z")
_The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas_ by Gertrude Stein. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2015, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-autobiography-titles/734636/37 "2015-10-20T01:59:44Z")
_Me_, by Katharine Hepburn. _Loitering with Intent_, by Peter O’Toole. ---
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- Still Me\* , by Christopher Reeve ---
**Author:** ![zimaane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a3d4f5/32.png) [@zimaane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zimaane)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2015, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-autobiography-titles/734636/39 "2015-10-20T20:15:47Z")
Richard Feynman’s memoirs were subtitled _The Adventures of a Curious Character_ I am embarrassed to admit this, but I remember seeing that The Situation from Jersey Shore wrote a book about himself called _Here’s the Situation_. But I didn’t read it, I swear! ---
**Author:** ![TV\_time](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f17d59/32.png) [@TV\_time](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TV_time)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2015, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-autobiography-titles/734636/40 "2015-10-20T21:28:36Z")
> [@zimaane](#): > > I am embarrassed to admit this, but I remember seeing that The Situation from Jersey Shore wrote a book about himself called _Here’s the Situation_. > > But I didn’t read it, I swear! Isn’t he the one that claimed to be unfamiliar with everything in his autobiography? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-autobiography-titles/734636.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-autobiography-titles/734636.md?page=3)