Yet he is right when he claims in his autobiography that he drew the real features of the man, his tender and selfless motives and his rugged fearless strength.

Kurosawa has commented on the lasting sense of loss he felt at his brother's death and the chapter of his autobiography that describes it — written nearly half a century after the event — is titled, " A Story I Don't Want to Tell.

According to the Dictionary of American Hymnology, " Amazing Grace " is John Newton's spiritual autobiography in verse.

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 ).

An autobiography ( from the Greek, αὐτός-autos self + βίος-bios life + γράφειν-graphein to write ) is an account of the life of a person, written by its subject.

Closely associated with autobiography ( and sometimes difficult to precisely distinguish from it ) is the form of memoir.

John Henry Newman's autobiography ( first published in 1864 ) is entitled Apologia Pro Vita Sua in reference to this tradition.

Another autobiography of the period is De vita propria, by the Italian physician and astrologer Gerolamo Cardano ( 1574 ).

The earliest known autobiography in English is the early 15th-century Booke of Margery Kempe, describing among other things her pilgrimage to the Holy Land and visit to Rome.

A memoir is slightly different in character from an autobiography.

One early example is that of Leonor López de Córdoba ( 1362 – 1420 ) who wrote what is supposed to be the first autobiography in Spanish.

The term " fictional autobiography " has been coined to define novels about a fictional character written as though the character were writing their own biography, of which Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders, is an early example.

Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye is a well-known modern example of fictional autobiography.

Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre is yet another example of fictional autobiography, as noted on the front page of the original version.

*" The course of life is unpredictable ... no one can write his autobiography in advance.

Lerner wrote in his autobiography ( as quoted by The New York Times ): " All I can say is that if I had no flair for marriage, I also had no flair for bachelorhood.

Caligula's sister, Agrippina the Younger, wrote an autobiography that certainly included a detailed explanation of Caligula's reign, but it too is lost.

In his autobiography, Freedom In Exile, he states that if Tibet is not free, he " will reincarnate elsewhere.

His films include To Hell and Back, the autobiography of Audie Murphy, who is considered the most decorated soldier in the military history of the United States ; John Wayne's war film The Green Berets ( 1968 ), and opposite Gregory Peck in the space story Marooned about three stranded astronauts.

This is how Wright described, in his autobiography, the influence of these exercises on his approach to design: " For several years I sat at the little Kindergarten table-top.

Douglass ' best-known work is his first autobiography Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, published in 1845.

* Robert Graves ' novel I, Claudius is written as a recently-discovered autobiography penned by the late Emperor.

With the help of a New York writer, he is working on an autobiography.

Helen reflects upon this coincidence in her first autobiography, stating " that there is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.

Frederik Pohl, in his autobiography The Way the Future Was, said that the origins of the Futurians started with the Science Fiction League founded by Hugo Gernsback in 1934, the New York City local chapter of which was called the " Brooklyn Science Fiction League " or BSFL, and headed by G. G. Clark.

An autobiography published in called Catch You Later was co-authored with William Brashler.

He among others fully institutionlized the teaching of Mishnah and Talmud to girls, from an autobiography on him by Rabbi Mayor Twersky called " A Glimpse of the Rav " in R. Menachem Genack ed., Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik: Man of Halacha, Man of Faith, page 113:

In her autobiography she revealed that in 1978 she called her mother, crying, unhappy with the way her life and career were going, to which her mother replied " Cybill, come home.

In 1939 he moved to the United States to Howard University (" Negro Oxford ", as he called it in his autobiography ), where he was rapidly promoted twice, attaining full professorial rank.

In 1987, Baez's second autobiography called And a Voice to Sing With was published and became a New York Times bestseller.

He has written poems and published an autobiography called My Two Worlds.

On 12 November 2007, He took part in the limited edition autobiography CD series called 60 minutes with Peter Bonetti when he was interviewed by David Knight.

Williams was a vital element of the group, called by Davis in his autobiography "... the center that the group's sound revolved around.

from the divorce of his own parents ; Gary Arnold of The Washington Post called the film " essentially a spiritual autobiography, a portrait of the filmmaker as a typical suburban kid set apart by an uncommonly fervent, mystical imagination ".

He heavily revised his major novels and many of his stories for a selected edition of his fiction, whose twenty-three volumes formed an artistic autobiography which he called " The New York Edition " to emphasise his continuing ties to the city of his birth.

Kuhn later wrote in his autobiography, Hardball: The Education of a Baseball Commissioner, that he was shocked at what he called a " foolish gamble " by the Senators, and predicted that the trade would turn out to be a Tiger heist.

Composer Percy Grainger called Isadora's autobiography a " life-enriching masterpiece.

In 2007, Faithfull released a second volume of autobiography called Memories, Dreams and Reflections.

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.

According to Baer's 2005 autobiography, Sarnoff called a vice president at NBC at 6 A. M. and ordered him to find Baer " a job by 9 o ' clock " that same morning.

Benn's autobiography, published in 2001, is called Dark Destroyer.

For years, he was resistant to producing an autobiography, claiming that much of his life and career had already been well covered by Frank Muir's A Kentish Lad and that a book called The Bits Frank Left Out would be too brief.

There are two published versions of The Lover: one written in the form of an autobiography, without any superimposed temporal structures, as the young girl narrates in first-person ; the other, called The North China Lover and released in conjunction with the film version of the work, is in film script form, in the third person, with written dialogue and without internal monologue.

Byrne mentioned in interviews and his 1995 autobiography, Pictures In My Head that he hates being called " brooding ".

In some cases, a ghostwriter may be called in just to clean up, edit, and polish a rough draft of an autobiography or a " how-to " book.

McKean designed and illustrated John Cale's autobiography What's Welsh for Zen, a further biography called Sedition and Alchemy, a box set of cd's called Circus Live, and used John's Welsh-by-way-of-New York voice as the narrator for his short film N.

Charles Hill has called the Seven Pillars " a novel traveling under the cover of autobiography ," capturing Lawrence's highly personal version of the historical events described in the book.

Andersen wrote three books, a 2000 autobiography called A Man's Reach, a collection of newspaper articles titled Views from the Publisher's Desk and a collection of speeches and reflections, I Trust to be Believed.