# 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:** 18\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2015, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-autobiography-titles/734636/41 "2015-10-20T21:39:13Z")
If I may contribute a worst candidate: sTORI Telling (Tori Spelling) mmm ---
**Author:** ![Evin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/59ef9b/32.png) [@Evin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evin)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2015, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-autobiography-titles/734636/42 "2015-10-21T14:18:29Z")
_Darkness Visible_, Styron’s memoir of madness. ---
**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 21, 2015, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-autobiography-titles/734636/43 "2015-10-21T14:21:05Z")
> [@journeyman\_southpaw](#): > > Maya Angelou: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Actually, all of Maya Angelou’s memoirs have great titles: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Gather Together in My Name Singin’ and Swingin’ and Gettin’ Merry Like Christmas (my favorite) The Heart of a Woman All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes A Song Flung Up to Heaven Mom & Me & Mom And I love Whoopi Goldberg’s title Book ---
**Author:** ![WildBlueYonder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ce7236/32.png) [@WildBlueYonder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildBlueYonder)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2015, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-autobiography-titles/734636/44 "2015-10-21T19:20:12Z")
> [@janis\_and\_c0](#): > > Desi Arnaz – _ **A Book** _ and it’s sequel _Another Book._ I was going to say that but I was not sure it belonged. I had no idea he had a sequel I’m big on reference and autobiographies! I thought I had two Kelsey Grammer books but I can only find one “So Far” Lucille Ball “Love Lucy” Regis Philbin “I’m only one man” “Who wants to be me?” Fran Dresher “Enter whining” Bill Cosby “Fatherhood” Roseanne Arnold (at that time she was an Armold) “My lives” Mary Tyler Moore “After All” Rosie O’Donnell “Find Me” Paul Reiser “Couplehood” Guess Kelsey did not have another book…oh well:( ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2015, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-autobiography-titles/734636/45 "2015-10-21T19:47:59Z")
Russell Brand - _My Booky Wook_ ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2015, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-autobiography-titles/734636/46 "2015-10-21T20:18:34Z")
**Shirley, I Jest!** by Cindy Williams of _LaVerne & Shirley_. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2015, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-autobiography-titles/734636/47 "2015-10-21T21:22:08Z")
> [@WildBlueYonder](#): > > I was going to say that but I was not sure it belonged. I had no idea he had a sequel > > I’m big on reference and autobiographies! > > I thought I had two Kelsey Grammer books but I can only find one > “So Far” > > Lucille Ball > “Love Lucy” > > Regis Philbin > “I’m only one man” > “Who wants to be me?” > > Fran Dresher > “Enter whining” > > Bill Cosby > “Fatherhood” > > Roseanne Arnold (at that time she was an Armold) > “My lives” > > Mary Tyler Moore > “After All” > > Rosie O’Donnell > “Find Me” > > Paul Reiser > “Couplehood” > Guess Kelsey did not have another book…oh well:( I have to ask: do you really find any of these clever? mmm ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2015, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-autobiography-titles/734636/48 "2015-10-21T21:23:38Z")
_Confessions of a Hooker: My Lifelong Love Affair with Golf_ by Bob Hope. ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2015, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-autobiography-titles/734636/49 "2015-10-21T21:30:46Z")
**Shit My Dad Says** is a hilarious name. Not an autobiography by any stretch, but certainly a memoir of sorts, as the aforementioned “shit” serves mostly as introductions to vignettes and essays about Halpern’s own life. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2015, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-autobiography-titles/734636/50 "2015-10-21T21:47:52Z")
Carl Reiner: I Remember Me followed by I Just Remembered followed by What I Forgot to Remember. ---
**Author:** ![Icerigger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icerigger/32/432_2.png) [@Icerigger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icerigger)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2015, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-autobiography-titles/734636/51 "2015-10-21T22:58:45Z")
**In Memory Yet Green** , Isaac Asimov ---
**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 22, 2015, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-autobiography-titles/734636/52 "2015-10-22T13:20:12Z")
Fran Drescher’s second memoir, about her battle with ovarian cancer: Cancer Schmaner. For those of you not familiar with Yiddish, putting “sch” in front of a word is a way of trivializing the situation. (Cancer Schmancer, I’m getting on with my life). ---
**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 22, 2015, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-autobiography-titles/734636/53 "2015-10-22T13:22:24Z")
> [@Evin](#): > > _Darkness Visible_, Styron’s memoir of madness. Well… clinical depression, certainly. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2015, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-autobiography-titles/734636/54 "2015-10-22T16:54:06Z")
> [@Icerigger](#): > > **In Memory Yet Green** , Isaac Asimov The first two (or was it three?), excessively detailed autobios were titled after lines from a short quatrain attributed to Anonymous, but Asimov finally admitted writing it. His final, more accessible version had the magnificently simple title _ **I. Asimov** _. ---
**Author:** ![Fuzzy\_wuzzy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a8b319/32.png) [@Fuzzy\_wuzzy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fuzzy_wuzzy)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2015, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-autobiography-titles/734636/55 "2015-10-22T17:07:05Z")
_Hitler: My Part in his Downfall_ by Spike Milligan. ---
**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 23, 2015, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-autobiography-titles/734636/56 "2015-10-23T14:15:47Z")
> [@mbh](#): > > _Confessions of a Hooker: My Lifelong Love Affair with Golf_ by Bob Hope. I seem to remember an autobiography by Hope that was titled, “Where There’s Life, There’s…” but I couldn’t find it. ---
**Author:** ![Damfino](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Damfino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damfino)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2015, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-autobiography-titles/734636/57 "2015-10-23T22:27:58Z")
> [@Amateur\_Barbarian](#): > > The first two (or was it three?), excessively detailed autobios were titled after lines from a short quatrain attributed to Anonymous, but Asimov finally admitted writing it. > > His final, more accessible version had the magnificently simple title _ **I. Asimov** _. See post #34 🙂 \*\* Anonymous Barbarian \*\* , you’re right. The titles originated from a verse written by Asimov after his publisher insisted on a quotation from a poem as a title ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2015, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-autobiography-titles/734636/58 "2015-10-23T22:32:56Z")
> [@Damfino](#): > > See post #34 🙂 Missed 'em. I did enter the thread with I. Asimov in mind, though… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-autobiography-titles/734636.md?page=2)