My favorite has always been *Everyone is Entitled to My Opinion *by David Brinckley.
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.
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.”
Desi Arnaz – A Book and it’s sequel Another Book.
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
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.
If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor
Any guesses? Bruce Campbell
A View From A Broad, Bette Midler
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.
“Bring on The Empty Horses” by David Niven
I Am America (And So Can You!) by Stephen Colbert of The Colbert Report
The Sensuous Dirty Old Man by Dr. A.
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 *
Michael Caine , What’s it All About ?
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein.
Me, by Katharine Hepburn.
Loitering with Intent, by Peter O’Toole.
- Still Me* , by Christopher Reeve
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!
Isn’t he the one that claimed to be unfamiliar with everything in his autobiography?