# Best title for an (auto)biography? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 13, 2009, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-title-for-an-auto-biography/506278 "2009-08-13T13:08:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2009, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-title-for-an-auto-biography/506278/41 "2009-08-14T10:44:48Z")
> [@Manwich](#): > > _A Young Man’s Passage_, by Julian Clary. I was going to post that one, for sheer smutty aptness. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2009, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-title-for-an-auto-biography/506278/42 "2009-08-14T16:39:53Z")
> [@chrisk](#): > > Too bad he didn’t actually complete the cycle with _I am also Scotty_ 😃 And his planned fourth volume, _And So’s My Wife._ ---
**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:** [August 14, 2009, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-title-for-an-auto-biography/506278/43 "2009-08-14T18:49:24Z")
Julian Lloyd Webber’s _Travels with my Cello_ ---
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2009, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-title-for-an-auto-biography/506278/44 "2009-08-14T19:52:58Z")
_I’m Still Hungry_, by Carnie Wilson ---
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2009, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-title-for-an-auto-biography/506278/45 "2009-08-14T19:55:23Z")
I’ve always liked Carrie Fisher’s “Wishful Drinking” ---
**Author:** ![unclviny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e274bd/32.png) [@unclviny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/unclviny)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2009, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-title-for-an-auto-biography/506278/46 "2009-08-15T00:01:05Z")
My favorites: “An unseemly man” Larry Flynt “No Irish, no Blacks, no Dogs” John Lydon = (Johnny Rotten) Unclviny ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2009, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-title-for-an-auto-biography/506278/47 "2009-08-15T00:50:43Z")
A good autobiography title: _It’s All About Me_. Don’t know anyone worth reading about who actually used the title, though. ---
**Author:** ![Commander\_Keen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e8c25b/32.png) [@Commander\_Keen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Commander_Keen)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2009, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-title-for-an-auto-biography/506278/48 "2009-08-15T01:48:58Z")
It would be a great title for an autobiography, but it was actually used as the title for a best-of album (maybe that’s like a band’s autobiography): The Replacements’ _Don’t You Know Who I Think I Was?_ Also the title was later ripped off by Fall Out Boy. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2009, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-title-for-an-auto-biography/506278/49 "2009-08-15T02:16:15Z")
Charles Grodin’s autobiography is titled _It Would Be So Nice If You Weren’t Here_. It was supposedly something someone once said to Grodin at a party and he said it was said so politely it took him a few minutes to realize he was being asked to leave. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2009, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-title-for-an-auto-biography/506278/50 "2009-08-15T04:16:13Z")
_Don’t try this at home, kids!_ ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2009, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-title-for-an-auto-biography/506278/51 "2009-08-15T05:25:23Z")
I just remembered another good one: _If I’m So Famous, How Come Nobody’s Ever Heard of Me?_ by Jewel Shepard, in which she writes about the difficulties of being a B-movie actress. I recommend this one - Shepard’s a talented writer. ---
**Author:** ![Saltire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saltire/32/553_2.png) [@Saltire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saltire)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2009, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-title-for-an-auto-biography/506278/52 "2009-08-15T06:36:27Z")
I don’t really have any interest in reading it, but I always liked the title of Paige Davis’ book, _Paige by Paige_. It’s apparently not a full autobiography, just covering her time on Trading Spaces. ---
**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:** [August 15, 2009, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-title-for-an-auto-biography/506278/53 "2009-08-15T06:49:17Z")
Ray Davies from 60s Brit band **The Kinks** wrote _X-Ray: The Unauthorized Autobiography_. How is it unauthorized? From Booklist: \*He adopts the persona of an employee of some authoritarian institution, as if he were a faceless chronicler assigned to report on one Raymond Douglas Davies; he refers to himself as Raymond Douglas or R. D. throughout and seemingly unearths the history of R.D.'s band. \* [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-title-for-an-auto-biography/506278.md?page=2)