Top Items About Autobiography

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AnecdotesGood Story (long)

Little love was lost between the rival composers Hector Berlioz and Maria Cherubini. In his memoirs, Berlioz...

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AnecdotesQuote, Misquote

In 1990, Philadelphia 76ers star Charles Barkley was quoted as saying that teammate Armon Gilliam was not a consistent...

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AnecdotesParker`s Plight

When George Oppenheimer and Ruth Gordon both produced plays featuring characters based on Dorothy Parker`s life,...

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AnecdotesAnti-Depressant?

Following knee surgery in 1987, Philip Roth fell into a severe depression. Amazingly, Roth devised a novel therapy:...

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AnecdotesPolitical Memoirs

"With all else in politics," John Kenneth Galbraith once remarked, "there is the thought that one is helping change...

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AnecdotesDiana Ross Autobiography

Jackie Onassis was once touted to oversee the publication of Diana Ross`s autobiography. Onassis declined when Ross...

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AnecdotesFriedman`s Penis

When A Mind of Its Own: A Cultural History of the Penis was first published, David M. Friedman was often asked...

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AnecdotesStanley`s Autobiography

According to the "Autobiography" of the famous explorer Sir Henry Morton Stanley, the teenaged immigrant was taken...

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AnecdotesGustave Bovary?

Gustave Flaubert`s Emma Bovary scandalized the literary establishment with its brutal examination of a woman`s attempts...

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