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• Libanius, Oration I, 374
• Augustine of Hippo, Confessions, 397
• Peter Abelard, Historia Calamitatum, 12th century
• Leonor López de Córdoba, Memorias, early 15th century
• Benvenuto Cellini, The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini, c1570, published 1728
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Confessions (Les Confessions), 1770, published 1782
• Manuel Belgrano, Autobiography of Manuel Belgrano, 1814
• Thomas de Quincey, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, 1821
• Giacomo Casanova, Histoire de ma vie, published posthumously in 1826.
• Cornelio Saavedra, Memoria autógrafa, 1829
• Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, 1845
• Frederick Douglass, My Bondage and My Freedom, 1855
• Frederick Douglass, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, 1881; expanded and revised, 1892
• Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, 1861
• Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, 1869
• Ion Creangă, Memories of Boyhood, 1883
• René Galand, War hentoù an tremened, 2 vols. (2002–2005)
• Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, 1885
• Charles Darwin, The Autobiography of Charles Darwin 1809-1882, published posthumously in 1887.
• Joaquim Nabuco, Minha formação, 1900
• Booker T. Washington, Up From Slavery, 1901
• Helen Keller, The Story of My Life, 1903
• Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams, 1907
• Mark Twain, Mark Twain's Autobiography, posthumous, 1907
• Manfred von Richthofen (The Red Baron), The Red Fighter Pilot, 1917
• Nikola Tesla, My Inventions, c. 1919
• Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf (My Struggle), 1925
• Isadora Duncan, My Life. 1927
• Mahatma Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, 1927 and 1929
• Black Elk and John J. Neihardt, Black Elk Speaks, 1931
• Gertrude Stein, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, 1933
• Jawaharlal Nehru, An Autobiography, 1936
• Richard Wright, Black Boy, 1945
• Nirad C. Chaudhuri, The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian , 1951
• Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, 1965
• Vladimir Nabokov, Speak, Memory, 1966
• Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1966–76
• Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire, 1968
• Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, 1969
• Anthony Burgess, Little Wilson and Big God, Being the First Part of the Confessions of Anthony Burgess, 1986
• Roald Dahl, Boy & Going Solo, 1986
• Annie Dillard, An American Childhood, 1987
• Michael Jackson, Moon Walk, 1988
• Anthony Burgess, You've Had Your Time, Being the Second Part of the Confessions of Anthony Burgess, 1990
• Ronald Reagan, An American Life, 1990
• Aron Ralston, "Between a Rock and A Hard Place",2004

• Nelson Mandela, Long Walk To Freedom, 1995
• Marlon Brando, Songs My Mother Taught Me, 1995
• Barack Obama, Dreams from My Father, 1996
• A P J Abdul Kalam, Wings of Fire, 1999
• Taslima Nasrin, My girlhood, 1999
• Taslima Nasrin, Gusty Wind, 2002
• Taslima Nasrin, Speak Up or Split into two 2003
• Craig Thompson, Blankets, 2003
• Taslima Nasrin, Those Dark Days, 2004
• Emanuel Derman, My Life as a Quant: Reflections on Physics and Finance, 2004
• Chelsea Handler, My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands, 2005
• Taslima Nasrin, I am not fine, but you stay well my beloved country, 2006
• Fidel Castro, My Life - A Spoken Autobiography, 2006
• Ronald Reagan, The Reagan Diaries, 2007
• Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, 2007
• Eminem, The Way I Am, 2008
• Chelsea Handler, Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea, 2008
• Robert Wagner, Pieces of My Heart, 2008
• Jesse Lee Kercheval
• Taslima Nasrin, Nothing is there, 2010
• Keith Richards, Life, 2010

• Willie Aames and Maylo McCaslin, Grace Is Enough, 2007
• Peter Abelard, Historia Calamitatum, 12th century
• Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Giant Steps; Kareem, 1990
• Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams, 1907
• Aerosmith, Walk This Way, 1997
• Brian Aherne, A Proper Job, 1969
• Alan Alda, Never Have Your Dog Stuffed And Other Things I’ve Learned, 2005
• Loni Anderson, My Life in High Heels, 1995
• Melissa Sue Anderson, The Way I See It: a Look Back at My Life, 2010
• Maya Angelou, I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, 1969
• Ann-Margaret, My Story 1994
• Fred Astaire, Steps in Time, 1960
• Sean Astin, There and Back Again: an Actor’s Tale, 2004
• Augustine of Hippo, Confessions, 1397
• Adrienne Barbeau, There Are Worse Things I Could Do, 2006
• Bob Barker, Priceless Memories, 2009
• Drew Barrymore, Little Girl Lost, 1989
• Meredith Baxter, Untied, 2011
• Orson Bean, Me and the Orgone: One Man's Sexual Revolution, 1971; Too Much Is Not Enough, 1988
• Ed Begley, Jr., Living Like Ed, 2008
• Ralph Bellamy, When the Smoke Hit the Fan, 1979
• Dirk Benedict, Confessions of a Kamikaze Cowboy, 2005
• Sandra Bernhard, Confessions of a Pretty Lady; Love, Love and Love; May I Kiss You On the Lips, Miss Sandra?, 1998
• Black Elk and John J. Neihardt, Black Elk Speaks, 1931
• Mel Blanc, That's NOT All, Folks!, 1988
• Linda Blair, Going Vegan!, 2001
• Robert Bloch, Once Around the Bloch
• Danny Bonaduce, Random Acts of Badness, 2001
• Sonny Bono, And the Beat Goes On, 1991
• Pat Boone, A New Song, 1970
• Ernest Borgnine, Ernie: the Autobiography, 2009
• Boy George, Taking It Like a Man, 1995
• Kenneth Brannagh, Beginning, 1998
• Todd Bridges, Killing Willis, 2010
• Jimmy Buffett, Where Is Joe Merchant?; Tales From Margueritaville; A Pirate Looks At 50, 1998
• Anthony Burgess, Little Wilson and Big God, Being the First Part of the Confessions of Anthony Burgess, 1986; You've Had Your Time, Being the Second Part of the Confessions of Anthony Burgess, 1990
• Ellen Burstyn, Lessons In Becoming Myself, 2006
• Sid Caesar, Where Have I Been?, 1982
• Sir Michael Caine, What's It All About; The Elephant to Hollywood, 2010
• Macdonald Carey, The Days of My Life
• Belinda Carlisle, Lips Unsealed, 2010
• Giacomo Casanova, Histoire de ma vie, published posthumously in 1826.
• David Cassidy, C'mon, Get Happy, 1994
• Fidel Castro, My Life - a Spoken Autobiography, 2006
• Benvenuto Cellini, The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini, c1570, published 1728
• Jackie Chan, I Am Jackie Chan: My Life in Action, 1998
• Nirad C. Chaudhuri, The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian 1951
• Ray Charles, Brother Ray, 1978
• Tommy Chong, The I Chong: Meditations From the Joint, 2006
• Roy Clark, My Life - In Spite of Myself, 1994
• Bill Clinton, My Life, 2004
• Sasha Cohen, Fire on Ice, 2005
• Randy Couture, Becoming the Natural: My Life In and Out of the Cage, 2008
• Bing Crosby, Call Me Lucky, 1953
• Cathy Lee Crosby, Let the Magic Begin, 1997
• Tony Curtis, American Prince: a Memoir, 2008
• Miley Cyrus, Miles To Go, 2008
• Chuck D, Fight the Power, 1997
• Roald Dahl, Boy & Going Solo, 1986
• Rodney Dangerfield, It's Not Easy Being Me: a Lifetime With No Respect But Plenty of Sex & Drugs, 2004
• Charles Darwin, The Autobiography of Charles Darwin 1809-1882, published posthumously in 1887.
• John Denver, Take Me Home, 1997
• Bruce Dern, Things I've Said, But Probably Shouldn't Have: an Unrepentant Memoir, 2007
• Kapil Dev, By God's Decree (1985) & Cricket My Style (1987) & Straight From the Heart (2004)
• Mickey Dolenz, I'm a Believer, 1993
• James Doohan, Beam Me Up, Scotty!, 1996
• Shannen Doherty, Badass, 2010
• Kirk Douglas, Let's Face It, 2007
• Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written By Himself, 1845; My Bondage and My Freedom, 1855; Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, 1881 (revised and expanded, 1892)
• Fran Drescher, Enter Whining, 1996; Cancer Schmancer
• Patty Duke, Call Me Anna, 1987; A Brilliant Madness, 1992
• Alexandre Dumas, père, Mes Mémoires, 1852–1856
• Isadora Duncan, My Life, 1927
• Buddy Ebsen, The Other Side of Oz, 1994
• Robert Englund, Hollywood Monster, 2009
• Peter Falk, Just One More Thing, 2006
• Richard Fleischer, Just Tell Me When to Cry, 1993
• Henry Fonda, Fonda: My Life, 1981
• Jane Fonda, My Life So Far, 2005
• Peter Fonda, Don't Tell Dad, 1998
• James Fox, Comeback: an Actor's Direction, 1983
• Michael J. Fox, Lucky Man, 2002; Always Looking Up, 2009; A Funny Thing Happened On the Way To the Future, 2010
• Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, 1869
• Stephen Fry, Moab is my Washpot, 1997
• Mahatma Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, 1927 and 1929
• Ben Gazzara, In the Moment, 2004
• Al-Ghazali, The Deliverer from Error, 12th century
• Debbie Gibson, Between the Lines, 1989
• Dizzy Gillespie, Dizzy: To be or not to bop : the autobiography of Dizzy Gillespie with Al Fraser
• Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, The Autobiography Of Goethe: Truth And Poetry, From My Own Life, 1848
• Louis Gossett, Jr., An Actor and a Gentleman, 2010
• Kelsey Grammer, So Far..., 1995
• Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, 1885
• Tom Green, Hollywood Causes Cancer, 2004
• Charles Grodin, It Would Be So Nice If You Weren't Here: My Journey Through Show Business, 1989
• Sir Alec Guiness, Blessings in Disguise, 1986; My Name Escapes Me, 1996
• Merle Haggard, My House of Memories, 2004
• Larry Hagman, Hello Darlin': Tall - and Absolutely True - Tales From My Life, 2001
• Harry Hamlin, Full Frontal Nudity, 2010
• Sir Cedric Hardwicke, A Victorian In Orbit, 1961
• David Hasselhoff, Don't Hassel the Hoff, 2006
• Rutger Hauer, All Those Moments, 2007
• Tony Hawk, Occupation: Skateboarder, 2000
• Mariel Hemingway, Finding My Balance, 2003
• Charlton Heston, In the Arena, 1995
• Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, 1925
• Hulk Hogan, My Life Outside the Ring, 2009
• Evander Holyfield, Becoming EH: a Fighter’s Journey, 2008
• Moe Howard, MH & the 3 Stooges, 1974
• Steve Howe, Between the Lines: My Struggle to Escape the Nightmare of Addiction, 1989
• Kim Hunter, Loose in the Kitchen, 1975
• Tab Hunter, Confidential: the Making of a Movie Star, 2005
• Chet Huntley, The Generous Years, 1968
• Zora Neale Hurston, Dust Tracks on the Road, 1942
• Ted Husing, My Eyes Are In My Heart, 1959
• Ice-T, The Ice Opinion, 1994
• Mark "Jacko" Jackson, Dumb Like a Fox
• Michael Jackson, Moonwalk, 1988
• Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, 1861
• Thomas Jefferson, Autobiography
• Waylon Jennings, Waylon, 1996
• Norman Jewison, This Terrible Business Has Been Good To Me, 2007
• James Earl Jones, Voices and Silences, 1993
• Naomi Judd, Love Can Build a Bridge, 1993
• Ken Kaiser, Planet of the Umps: My Life Behind the Plate
• H.V. Kaltenborn, Fifty Fabulous Years, 1950
• Gabe Kaplan, Kotter's Back, 2007
• Helen Keller, The Story of My Life, 1903
• Nancy Kerrigan, In My Own Words, 1996
• Richard Kiel, Making It Big In the Movies, 2002
• Jamaica Kincaid, A Small Place, 1988
• Akira Kurosawa, Something Like an Autobiography, 1982
• Alphonse de Lamartine, Les Confidences, 1849, Nouvelles confidences, 1851, Mémoires Politiques, 1963, etc.
• Denis Leary, Why We Suck, 2008
• Sir Christopher Lee, Tall, Dark & Gruesome, 1977
• Spike Lee, That’s My Story and I’m Sticking To It
• Stan Lee, Excelsior!, 2002
• Lennon Sisters, Same Song, Separate Voices 1985
• Sheldon Leonard, And the Show Goes On, 1994
• C. S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy
• Libanius, Oration I, 374
• Liberace, The Things I Love, 1977
• Tara Lipinski, Triumph on Ice
• L.L. Cool J, I Make My Own Rules, 1997
• Leonor López de Córdoba, Memorias, early 15th century
• Traci Lords, Underneath It All, 2003
• Rob Lowe, Stories I Only Tell My Friends, 2011
• Ron Luciano, The Umpire Strikes Back; Strike Two; The Fall of the Roman Umpire; Remembrance of Swings Past; Baseball Lite
• Patrick Macnee, Blind in One Ear; The Avengers and Me, 1998
• Nadezhda Mandelstam, Hope Against Hope, 1970
• Elizabeth Manley, Thumbs Up!, 1990
• Marilyn Manson, The Long Hard Road Out of Hell, 1998
• Garry Marshall, Wake Me When It's Funny, 1995
• Ray Manzarek, Light My Fire: Life with the Doors, 1998
• James Mason, Before I Forget, 1982
• Jerry Mathers, ...And JM As the Beaver, (1997)
• John Matuszak, Cruising With the Tooz
• Mercedes McCambridge, The Quality of Mercy, 1981
• Jenny McCarthy, Jen-X: My Open Book, 1997
• Maureen McCormick, Here's the Story, 2008
• Claude McKay, A Long Way From Home, 1937
• Meat Loaf, To Hell & Back, 1999
• Yehudi Menuhin, Unfinished Journey: Twenty Years Later, 1999
• Burgess Meredith, So Far, So Good, 1994
• Durwood Merrill, You're Out and You're Ugly, Too! ...Confessions of an Umpire With Attitude
• Bette Midler, A View From a Broad, 1980
• Alyssa Milano, Safe at Home, 2009
• John Stuart Mill, Autobiography, 1873
• A.A. Milne, It's Too Late Now, 1939
• Robert Mitchum, It Sure Beats Working, 1975
• Dominique Moceanu, DM: an Autobiography, 1996
• Ricardo Montalban, Reflections: a Life In Two Worlds, 1980
• Clayton Moore, I Was That Masked Man, 1996
• Mary Tyler Moore, After All, 1995
• Roger Moore, My Word Is My Bond
• Ken Murray, Life On a Pogo Stick, 1960
• Vladimir Nabokov, Speak, Memory, 1966
• Joaquim Nabuco, Minha formação, 1900
• Jawaharlal Nehru, Autobiography, 1936
• Wayne Newton, Once Before I Go, 1989
• Leslie Nielsen, Bad Golf My Way, 1996
• Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1966–76
• Chuck Norris, The Secret of Inner Strength: My Story, 1988
• Carroll O'Connor, I Think I'm Outta Here
• Laurence Olivier, Confessions of an Actor, 1983; On Acting, 1986
• Tatum O'Neal, A Paper Life, 2004
• Tito Ortiz, This Is Gonna Hurt: the Life of a Mixed Martial Arts Champion, 2008
• Donny Osmond, Life Is Just What You Make It: My Story So Far, 1999
• Marie Osmond, I May As Well Laugh About It, 2009
• Peter O'Toole, Loitering with Intent, 1992
• Dolly Parton, My Life and Other Unfinished Business, 1994
• Luciano Pavarotti, My World, 1995
• Gregory Peck, An Actor's Life, 1978
• Rowdy Roddy Piper, In the Pit, 2002
• Vincent Price, I Like What I Know, 1959
• Richard Pryor, Pryor Convictions and Other Life Sentences, 1995
• Thomas de Quincey, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, 1821
• Anthony Quinn, One Man Tango, 1995
• Gilda Radner, It's Always Something, 1989
• Tony Randall, Which Reminds Me, 1989
• Ronald Reagan, An American Life, 1990 & The Reagan Diaries, 2007
• Christopher Reeve, Still Me, 1996
• Burt Reynolds, My Life, 1994
• Manfred von Richthofen (The Red Baron), Der rote Kampfflieger (The Red Battle Flier), 1917
• Molly Ringwald, Getting the Pretty Back, 2010
• Chris Rock, Rock This!, 1997
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Les Confessions), 1770, published 1782
• Bertrand Russell, Autobiography (what else?), 1967, 1969
• Pete Sampras, A Champion’s Mind: Lessons From a Life In Tennis, 2008
• George Sanders, Confessions of a Professional Cad, 1960
• Summer Sanders, Champions Are Raised, Not Born, 1999
• Jean-Paul Sartre, The Words, 1964
• Jessica Savitch, Anchorwoman, 1982
• Albert Schweitzer, Out of My Life and Thought, 1933
• George Bernard Shaw, Shaw: an Autobiography, 1898–1950; the Playwright Years
• Brooke Shields, On Your Own, 1985
• Alan Sillitoe, Life Without Armour, 1995
• Horace Silver, Let's Get to the Nitty Gritty, 2007
• Gene Simmons, KISS and Makeup, 2002
• Isaac Bashevis Singer, Love and Exile: An Autobiographical Trilogy , 1984, In My Father's Court, 1966, etc.
• Grace Slick, Somebody To Love? a Rock N' Roll Memoir, 1998
• Aaron Spelling, A Prime-Time Life, 1996
• Tori Spelling, Stori Telling, 2008; Mommywood, 2009; Uncharted Territori, 2010
• Robert Stack, Straight Shooting, 1980
• Terence Stamp, Coming Attractions, 1988
• Lincoln Steffens, Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens, 1931
• Gertrude Stein, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, 1933
• Sting, Broken Music
• Gloria Stuart, I Just Keep Hoping, 1999
• Tom Sullivan, If You Could See What I Hear, 1975; Adventures In Darkness, 1976
• Marc Summers, Everything in Its Place, 1999
• Patrick Swayze, The Time of My Life, 2009
• Alison Sweeney, All the Days of My Life (So Far), 2004
• Mr. T, Mr. T, 1984
• Nikola Tesla, My Inventions, 1919
• Lowell Thomas, Good Evening, Everybody, 1976
• Terry Thomas, Filling the Gap, 1959
• Leo Tolstoy, Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth, 1852–1856
• Pinky Tomlin, The Object of My Affection, 1981
• Mark Twain, Mark Twain's Autobiography, 1917
• Vanilla Ice, Ice By Ice, 1991
• Dick Van Patten, Eighty Is Not Enough, 2009
• Jesse Ventura, I Ain't Got Time To Bleed, 1998
• Giambattista Vico, The Autobiography of Giambattista Vico, 1735–1741
• Voltaire, Mémoires pour servir à la vie de M. de Voltaire, écrits par lui-même, 1759, published 1784
• Gregory Walcott, Hollywood Adventures: My Story, 2003
• Eli Wallach, The Good, the Bad, and Me, 2005
• Julie Walters, That's Another Story 2008
• Burt Ward, Boy Wonder: My Life In Tights, 1995
• Booker T. Washington, Up From Slavery, 1901
• Damon Wayans, Bootleg
• Earl Weaver, Winning (1972); It's What You Learn After You Know It All That Counts (1983); Weaver on Strategy (2002)
• H. G. Wells, An Experiment in Autobiography, 1934
• Adam West, Back To the Batcave, 1994
• Wil Wheaton, Just a Geek & Dancing Barefoot, both 2004
• Lisa Whelchel, The Facts of My Life, 2001
• Betty White, BW: In Person; Here We Go Again, 1995
• Grace Lee Whitney, The Longest Trek: My Tour of the Galaxy, 1998
• Barry Williams, Growing Up Brady OR I Was a Teenage Greg, 1992
• Carnie Wilson, Gut Feelings; I'm Still Hungry, 2003
• Jacqueline Wilson, Jacky Daydream & My Secret Diary
• Wolfman Jack, Have Mercy!, 1995
• Ed Wood, Jr., Hollywood Rat Race, 1998 (released posthumously)
• Frank Lloyd Wright, Autobiography, 1943
• Richard Wright, Black Boy, 1945
• Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, 1965
• William Butler Yeats, Autobiography, 1936
• Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi
• Michael York, Accidentally on Purpose, 1991; How a Shakespearean Prepares, 2000; Dispatches From Armageddon, 2001; Are My Blinkers Showing? Film-making & Other Adventures In the New Russia, 2005
• Frank Zappa, The Real FZ Book, 1988
• Franco Zeffirelli, Zeffirelli: an Autobiography, 1986