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In addition to Triumphant Democracy ( 1886 ), and The Gospel of Wealth ( 1889 ), he also wrote An American Four-in-hand in Britain ( 1883 ), Round the World ( 1884 ), The Empire of Business ( 1902 ), The Secret of Business is the Management of Men ( 1903 ), James Watt ( 1905 ) in the Famous Scots Series, Problems of Today ( 1907 ), and his posthumously published autobiography Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie ( 1920 ).
In 2009, James and the surviving Shondells, Gray, Vale and Rosman, reunited to record music for a soundtrack of a proposed film based on James ' autobiography, Me, the Mob, and the Music, released in February 2010.
" Author and university alumnus Clive James quipped in his 1981 autobiography that the motto loosely translates as " Sydney University is really Oxford or Cambridge laterally displaced approximately 12, 000 miles ".
James Weldon Johnson, a prominent figure of the Harlem Renaissance, expresses an ambivalent opinion in his autobiography:
" James wrote or dictated at various stages a chronicle of his own life in Catalan, Llibre dels fets, the first autobiography by a Christian king.
Released in 1998, All I Need to Know about Filmmaking I Learned from the Toxic Avenger is an autobiography of sorts co-written with James Gunn.
For example, in his autobiography, Theodore Roosevelt described his uncle, James Dunwoody Bulloch, as " a veritable Colonel Newcome ".
In her autobiography, Rage to Survive, singer Etta James claimed that she viewed Cooke's body in the funeral home and that the injuries she observed were well beyond what could be explained by the official account of Franklin alone having fought with Cooke.
The creation of the group was inspired by the " brass-rock " ideas of The Buckinghams and its producer, James William Guercio, as well as the early 1960s Roulette-era Maynard Ferguson Orchestra ( according to Kooper's autobiography ).
A final autobiography, titled " The Great West That Was: ' Buffalo Bill's ' Life Story ," was serialized in Hearst's International Magazine from August 1916 to July 1917 and ghostwritten by James J. Montague.
In his autobiography Close Up ( 2004 ), British actor John Fraser claimed that Harvey was gay and that his long-term lover was his manager James Woolf, who " discovered " Harvey in the 1950s.
The Literary Remains of H. F. Clinton ( the first part of which contains an autobiography written in 1818 ) were edited by Clinton James Fynes Clinton in 1854.
Christie revealed in her 1977 autobiography that the basic idea of the novel was first given to her by her brother-in-law, James Watts of Abney Hall, who in a conversation one day suggested a novel in which the criminal would be a Dr. Watson character: i. e., the narrator of the story.
It is the only library in the world with the first two quartos of Hamlet ; it holds the manuscript of Benjamin Franklin's autobiography, the first seven drafts of Henry David Thoreau's Walden, John James Audubon's Birds of America, a collection of manuscripts and first editions of the works of Charles Bukowski, and many other great treasures.
Angelou's friend James Baldwin was instrumental in the publication of her first autobiography.
Bodley wrote his autobiography up to the year 1609, which, with the first draft of the statutes drawn up for the library, and his letters to the librarian, Thomas James, was published by Thomas Hearne, under the title of Reliquiae Bodleianae, or Authentic Remains of Sir Thomas Bodley, ( London, 1703, 8vo ).
Lazenby's autobiography, The Other Fella, is scheduled to be released in hardcover by Century in 2012, the year of James Bond's 50th feature film anniversary, and in paperback by Arrow in 2013.
Ruth Franklin writes that Nights " resuscitation " by Oprah Winfrey came at a difficult time for the genre of memoir, after a previous book-club author, James Frey, was found to have fabricated parts of his autobiography, A Million Little Pieces.
* I Could Never Be So Lucky Again, autobiography by James " Jimmy " Doolittle, ISBN 0-553-58464-2
In an excerpt from his autobiography, Sir James is quoted as saying: " The imprinting mathematical influence was Dr Waterson at Beath High School, a brilliant and rumbustious teacher, who more or less man-handled me into sitting the competitive entrance examination for St Andrews University.
In his 1993 autobiography, This Wheel's on Fire-Levon Helm and the Story of The Band, Helm describes watching Williamson's drummer, James " Peck " Curtis, intently during a live performance in the early 1950s and later imitating this R & B drumming style.
In his autobiography, Smith claimed that Alfred Henry Hook – a soldier who fought at Rorke's Drift – was an ancestor of his father, which led to the Smith family being invited as guests of honour to the Whitefield showing of Zulu, where the soldier was played by James Booth.
In 1994 he published his autobiography Major Major: Memories of an Older Brother, which was ghost-written by the journalist James Hughes-Onslow.
In his 1973 autobiography Busby described himself as being as football mad as any other boy in Bellshill citing in particular the impression made on him by Alex James and Hughie Gallacher.

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Maya Angelou called Baldwin her " friend and brother ", and credited him for " setting the stage " for her 1969 autobiography I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.
Also in 1968, inspired at a dinner party she attended with Baldwin, cartoonist Jules Feiffer, and his wife Judy, and challenged by Random House editor Robert Loomis, she wrote her first autobiography, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, published in 1969, which brought her international recognition and acclaim.
Angelou was challenged by her friend, author James Baldwin, and her editor, Robert Loomis, to write an autobiography that was also a piece of literature.

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* George Fowler, b. 1930, author of the autobiography " Dance of a fallen monk " and other books, was born and grew up near Conrad and went to high school there.
The first volume of writer Charles Tyrie's autobiography is titled The Langley Boy ; Tyrie grew up in Langley in the 1940s and 1950s.
Born Arthur Jacob Arshawsky in New York City, Shaw grew up in New Haven, Connecticut, where, according to his autobiography his natural introversion was deepened by local antisemitism.
Stegner was born in Lake Mills, Iowa, and grew up in Great Falls, Montana, Salt Lake City, Utah, and southern Saskatchewan, which he wrote about in his autobiography Wolf Willow.
According to Puyi's autobiography, a ginkgo tree grew on the tomb of Yixuan, and became very tall and imposing.
* Kaffir Boy is the title of Mark Mathabane's autobiography, who grew up in the township of Alexandra, travelled to the United States on a tennis scholarship, and became a successful author in his adoptive homeland.

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His reception remained warmer in America than Britain, and he continued to publish novels and short stories, but by the late 1930s the audience for Milne's grown-up writing had largely vanished: he observed bitterly in his autobiography that a critic had said that the hero of his latest play (" God help it ") was simply " Christopher Robin grown up ... what an obsession with me children are become!
In 2000, Charles wrote his first autobiography about his experiences growing up in Liverpool, titled No Irish, No Niggers.
* 1960: A Book ( autobiography up to 1960 )
In his autobiography, A Life, he sums up the influence of filmmaking on his life:
His autobiography, Swan Song, was published in 2003 and covers the period up until his retirement from football.
After Stowe's death her son and grandson claimed she and Henson had met before Uncle Tom's Cabin was written, but the chronology does not hold up to scrutiny and she probably drew material only from his published autobiography.
" In her autobiography, Life Is A Banquet, Russell wrote that she thought her role did not have as many good lines as Grant's, so she hired her own writer to " punch up " her dialogue.
He comes up with the ideas that Tender is credited for, such as his autobiography, the " Book of Very Common Prayer ", and the Tender Branson Sensitive Materials Sanitary Landfill.
His later novels, including the Book of Bebb series and Godric, received hearty praise ; in his 1980 review of Godric, Benjamin DeMott summed up a host of positive reviews, saying “ All on his own, Mr. Buechner has managed to reinvent projects of self-purification and of faith as piquant matter for contemporary fiction, producing in a single decade a quintet of books each of which is individual in concerns and knowledge, and notable for literary finish .” In 1982, author Reynolds Price greeted Buechner ’ s The Sacred Journey as “ a rich new vein for Buechner – a kind of detective autobiographyand “ he result is a short but fascinating and, in its own terms, beautifully successful experiment .”
In his final months, Long followed up his earlier autobiography, " Every Man a King ", with a second book entitled My First Days in the White House, laying out his plans for the presidency after the election of 1936.
First unconsciously, then more and more aware came up to me that I worked on the field of the autobiography.
Robinson stated in his autobiography that one of the main considerations for his move up to middleweight was the increasing difficulty he was having in making the welterweight weight limit.
Although he had been inactive for two and a half years, his work as a dancer kept him in peak physical condition: in his autobiography, Robinson states that in the weeks leading up to his debut for a dancing engagement in France, he ran five miles every morning, and then danced for five hours each night.
As Louis explained it in his autobiography, Roxborough convinced Louis that white managers would have no real interest in seeing a black boxer work his way up to title contention:
Memorable moments of this series include Alan dry-vomiting his way through a speech about fireplaces after impaling his foot on a spiked fence ; mistakenly getting involved with swingers ; attacking a six-foot stuffed Beefeater bear ; his summing up the entire opening of The Spy Who Loved Me in less than a minute during a failed attempt at a 24-hour Bondathon ; Lynn's baptism at her Baptist church and, of course, the sad pulping of his autobiography which, despite taking up four weeks of his life to write, simply wasn't selling well ( partly because every anecdote ended with the phrase " Needless to say, I had the last laugh ".
Shortly after, as related in his autobiography, Armstrong would take up a similar study on the topic of evolution of the species after a conflict with his sister-in-law.
Buffett is currently writing a follow-up to his autobiography A Pirate Looks at Fifty, which he says may take up to ten years to write and complete.
In his autobiography, Blanc said he had a difficult time coming up with the voice.
The girl, aged eight, and her brother, aged twelve, were sent to be brought up under the assistants of Premier Zhou Enlai as his wards ; the girl, Sirin Phathanothai later wrote The Dragon's Pearl an autobiography telling her experiences growing up in the 1950s and 1960s among the leaders of China.
In his autobiography, What's it All About, Caine states that he “ still wakes up sweating in the night as he sees Terence agreeing to accept my advice to take the role in Alfie ”.

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