List of autobiographies
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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
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