List of autobiographies

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The following is a list of notable autobiographies:

By profession[edit]

Author Title of book Year
Aerospace
Alberto Santos-Dumont My Airships: The Story of My Life 1904
James R. McConnell Flying for France: With the American Escadrille at Verdun 1917
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 My Fights (Mes Combats) 1919
Richard E. Byrd Skyward 1928
Clarence Chamberlin Record Flights 1928
Frank Hawks Speed 1931
Willy Coppens Days Gone: Memories (Jours Envolés: Mémoires)[a] 1932
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
Don S. Gentile One Man Air Force 1944
Guy Gibson Enemy Coast Ahead 1946
Arthur Harris Bomber Offensive 1947
Bert Stiles Serenade to the Big Bird 1947
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
Ivan Kozhedub I Serve the Motherland (Служу Родине) 1949
Hans-Ulrich Rudel Nevertheless (Trotzdem)[b] 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
Ernst Heinkel Stormy Life (Stürmisches Leben) 1953
Heinz Knoke I Flew for the Führer 1953
Hugh Henry Home Popham Sea Flight: A Fleet Air Arm Pilot's Story 1954
Nevil Shute Slide Rule: Autobiography of an Engineer 1954
Bill Bridgeman The Lonely Sky 1955
Eino Luukkanen Fighter Over Finland (Hävittäjälentäjänä Kahdessa Sodassa) 1956
Johnnie Johnson Wing Leader 1956
John Slessor The Central Blue: Recollections and Reflections 1956
Basil Embry Mission Completed[c] 1957
Saburō Sakai Samurai! 1957
Pappy Boyington Baa Baa Black Sheep 1958
Robert S. Johnson Thunderbolt! 1958
Alan Deere Nine Lives 1959
Albert Scott Crossfield Always Another Dawn: The Story of a Rocket Test Pilot 1960
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
Bud Mahurin Honest John 1962
Arch Whitehouse The Fledgling: An Autobiography 1964
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
Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev The Purpose of Life (Цель жизни) 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
Raymond Collishaw Air Command: A Fighter Pilot's Story 1973
Donald Wilson Wooing Peponi: My Odyssey through Many Years 1973
Jan Zumbach Mister Brown[d] 1973
Arthur Lee No Parachute: A Fighter Pilot in World War I 1974
Cecil Arthur Lewis Never Look Back: An Attempt at Autobiography 1974
Igor Kaberov Swastika in the Gunsight (В прицеле свастика) 1975
Alexander Lippisch A Triangle Flies: The Development of Delta Aircraft Until 1945 (Ein Dreieck Fliegt: Die Entwicklung der Delta-Flugzeuge bis 1945)[e] 1976
Charles Lamb War in a Stringbag 1977
Alan Cobham A Time to Fly 1978
Alex Henshaw Sigh for a Merlin: Testing the Spitfire[f] 1979
Murray Peden A Thousand Shall Fall 1979
Jean Batten Alone in the Sky 1979
George Gay Sole Survivor 1980
Wladek Gnyś First Kill: A Fighter Pilot's Autobiography 1981
William R. Dunn Fighter Pilot: The First American Ace of World War II 1982
Robert Mason Chickenhawk[g] 1983
Charles R. Bond Jr. A Flying Tiger's Diary 1984
Duke Cunningham Fox Two: The Story of America's First Ace in Vietnam 1984
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
Alberto Briganti Beyond the Clouds the Serene: Memories of Forty Years of Flight and Adventure (Oltre le Nubi il Sereno: Ricordi di Quarant'anni di Volo e di Avventura) 1988
Samuel Hynes Flights of Passage: Recollections of a World War II Aviator 1988
Robert Lee Scott Jr. The Day I Owned the Sky[h] 1988
Fred Weick From the Ground Up 1988
John Thomas Blackburn The Jolly Rogers: The Story of Tom Blackburn and Navy Fighting Squadron VF-17 1989
Takeo Doi Fifty Years Recollections on Aircraft Design (航空機設計50年の回想) 1989
Hugh Dundas Flying Start: A Fighter Pilot's War Years 1989
Kelly Johnson Kelly: More Than My Share of It All 1989
Boone Guyton Whistling Death: The Test Pilot's Story of the F4U Corsair 1990
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
Brian Shul Sled Driver: Flying the World's Fastest Jet 1991
Joe Foss A Proud American: The Autobiography of Joe Foss 1992
Tex Johnson Tex Johnston: Jet-Age Test Pilot 1992
Harry H. Crosby A Wing and a Prayer: The "Bloody 100th" Bomb Group of the U.S. Eighth Air Force in Action over Europe in World War II 1993
Lawrence A. Hyland Call Me Pat: The Autobiography of the Man Howard Hughes Chose to Lead Hughes Aircraft 1993
Diana Barnato Walker Spreading My Wings: One of Britain's Top Women Pilots Tells Her Remarkable Story 1994
Marion Eugene Carl Pushing the Envelope: The Career of Fighter Ace and Test Pilot Marion Carl 1994
Neal Vernon Loving Lovings Love: A Black American's Experiences in Aviation 1994
Ben Rich Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed 1994
Bob Hoover Forever Flying: Fifty Years of High-flying Adventures, From Barnstorming in Prop Planes to Dogfighting Germans to Testing Supersonic Jets 1996
No Kum-Sok A MiG-15 to Freedom: Memoir of the Wartime North Korean Defector Who First Delivered the Secret Fighter Jet to the Americans in 1953 1996
Charles W. Dryden A-Train: Memoirs of a Tuskegee Airman 1997
James V. Hartinger From One Stripe to Four Stars 1997
Frank E. Petersen Into the Tiger's Jaw: America's First Black Marine Aviator 1998
Paul Tibbets Return of The Enola Gay 1998
Jeffrey Quill Spitfire: A Test Pilot's Story 1998
Michael J. Novosel Dustoff: The Memoir of an Army Aviator 1999
Gene Kranz Failure Is Not an Option: Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond 2000
Frederick Libby Horses Don't Fly: A Memoir of World War I 2000
Roland Beamont The Years Flew Past: 40 Years at the Leading Edge of Aviation 2001
Robert K. Morgan The Man Who Flew the Memphis Belle: Memoir of a WWII Bomber Pilot 2001
Peter Masefield Flight Path: The Autobiography of Sir Peter Masefield 2002
Donald L. Mallick Smell of Kerosene: A Test Pilot's Odyssey 2003
Bernard F. Fisher Beyond the Call of Duty: The Story of an American Hero 2004
Clayton Kelly Gross Live Bait: WWII Memories of an Undefeated Fighter Ace 2006
Günther Rall My Logbook: Reminiscences, 1938-2006 2006
Joe Sutter 747: Creating the World's First Jumbo Jet and Other Adventures from a Life in Aviation 2006
Jack Broughton Rupert Red Two: A Fighter Pilot's Life from Thunderbolts to Thunderchiefs[i] 2007
Leland Snow Putting Dreams to Flight 2008
Anna Yegorova Red Sky, Black Death: A Soviet Woman Pilot's Memoir of the Eastern Front 2009
Ann B. Carl A WASP Among Eagles: A Woman Military Test Pilot in World War II 2000[j]
Mitsuo Fuchida For That One Day: The Memoirs of Mitsuo Fuchida, the Commander of the Attack on Pearl Harbor 2011
Harold Brown Keep Your Airspeed Up: The Story of a Tuskegee Airman 2017
Norman Kleiss Never Call Me a Hero: A Legendary American Dive-Bomber Pilot Remembers the Battle of Midway 2017
Tammie Jo Shults Nerves of Steel: How I Followed My Dreams, Earned My Wings, and Faced My Greatest Challenge 2019
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
Betty White BW: In Person and Here We Go Again: My Life In Television both 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
Gilbert Gottfried Rubber Balls & Liquor 2011
Michael Moore Here Comes Trouble 2011
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
Suzanne Farrell Holding Onto the Air 1990
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
Nichelle Nichols Beyond Uhura 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
Albert R. Broccoli When the Snow Melts (released posthumously) 1999
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
Anne Heche Call Me Crazy 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 Sami-I-Am 2004
Wil Wheaton Dancing Barefoot 2004
Dick York The Seesaw Girl & Me (published posthumously) 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
Sean Connery Being a Scot 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, but Please Call Me Shirley! 2013
George Lazenby This Is What Happened To the Other Fellow 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
Bernard Cribbins Bernard Who: 75 Years of Doing Absolutely Everything 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
Matthias Hues Shirtless in Hollywood 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
Don Bluth Somewhere Out There: My Animated Life 2022
Geena Davis Dying of Politeness 2022
Ralph Macchio Waxing On 2022
Matthew Perry Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing 2022
Kelly Ripa Live Wire 2022
Bill Mumy The Full Mumy, AKA It's Been a Real Good Life 2023
John Stamos If You Would Have Told Me... 2023
Patrick Stewart Making It So 2023
Billy Dee Williams What Have We Here? 2024
Edward Zwick Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood 2024
History
Edward Gibbon Memoirs of My Life and Writings 17xx
Henry Adams The Education of Henry Adams 1907
Journalism
Mehmood Hashmi Kashmir Udaas Hai 1950
Lowell Thomas Good Evening, Everybody 1976
Jessica Savitch Anchorwoman 1982
Peter Sissons When One Door Closes 2011
John Craven Headlines and Hedgerows 2019
Law
Helene E. Schwartz Lawyering 1976
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
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  1. ^ Published in English as Days on the Wing in 1934 and Flying In Flanders in 1971.
  2. ^ This would later be re-edited and published in English as Stuka Pilot.
  3. ^ A previous book, Wingless Victory (alternately known as Alone He Went), was published in 1950. However, it was it was "written by an R.A.F. colleague of Embry's, and thus [does not have] the personal touch of autobiography" according to a review.[1]
  4. ^ Published in English as On Wings of War: My Life as a Pilot Adventurer in 1975.
  5. ^ Published in English as The Delta Wing: History and Development in 1981.
  6. ^ The author published two additional books: The Flight of the Mew Gull in 1980 and Wings Across the Great Divide: Postwar Flying in Africa in the 1940s in 2004. They cover his prewar and postwar life, respectively.
  7. ^ The author published an additional book: Chickenhawk: Back in the World: Life After Vietnam in 1993.
  8. ^ An earlier memoir was published as God is My Co-Pilot.
  9. ^ The author wrote two previous books Thud Ridge in 1968 and Going Downtown: The War Against Hanoi and Washington in 1988.
  10. ^ It is not clear when this book was first published. An edition was published by the Smithsonian Institution in 2010.[2] However, her 2008 obituary mentions the work by name.[3] A WorldCat entry with limited details mentions an edition published in 2000.[4] This date has been used for the entry.

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  1. ^ "Books: Flyer's Flight". Time. 27 August 1951. Retrieved 28 January 2024.
  2. ^ "A Wasp Among Eagles: A Wasp Among Eagles [sic]". WorldCat. Retrieved 29 January 2024.
  3. ^ Calos, Katherine (22 March 2008). "Ann G.B. Carl, First U.S. Woman to Fly Jet, Dies". Richmond Times-Dispatch. Archived from the original on 19 March 2021. Retrieved 29 January 2024.
  4. ^ "A Wasp Among Eagles: A Woman Military Test Pilot in World War II". WorldCat. Retrieved 29 January 2024.