Chandler published his autobiography, Heroes, Plain Folks, and Skunks, in 1989.

According to the Detroit Post, an extant newspaper, and publisher of an autobiography of Chandler, " Mr. Chandler, was from his boyhood, was radical in his opposition to human bondage, and for a time hoped that the Whig Party of the North could be used to effectually resist the conspiracy of the slave power against the territories.

In her autobiography Hold the Roses ( 2002 ), Rose Marie wrote that “ Jeff Chandler was a great guy, but he was no singer.

He was romantically linked with Esther Williams, who claimed in her 1999 autobiography Chandler was a cross dresser and she broke off the relationship.

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!

The autobiography would be based on much of his journal, which he said he kept while in rehab.

Benjamin Franklin wrote in his autobiography, " Some books against Deism fell into my hands ; they were said to be the substance of sermons preached at Boyle's lectures.

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.

Pohl, in his autobiography, The Way the Future Was, said Wollheim voted for Republican Presidential Candidate Alfred Landon in 1936.

According to John Major's autobiography, the first thing Redwood's successor William Hague said, on being appointed, was that he had better find someone to teach him the words.

Upon accepting the book for publication Santillana said, " It is my understanding that, fictional as the material may sound, it is straight autobiography.

After Clinton's autobiography My Life appeared in 2004, Lewinsky said in an interview with the British tabloid Daily Mail:

Humphries said in his autobiography, My Life As Me, that he found Cook's lack of interest in art and literature off-putting.

In his autobiography, Just One More Thing ( 2006 ), Falk said that his selection for the film from thousands of other Off-Broadway actors was a " miracle " that " made my career " and that without it, he would not have gotten the other significant movie roles that he later played.

In her autobiography, My Story she said:

" Watson, Jr., later gave a slightly different version of the story in his autobiography, where he said the initial market sampling indicated 11 firm takers and 10 more prospective orders.

In his autobiography, Plummer said that Chapman was to have been a technical adviser on the film but the French authorities would not allow him in the country because he was still wanted over an alleged plot to kidnap the Sultan of Morocco.

In Moe's autobiography, he said they each got $ 600 per week on a one-year contract with a renewable option ; in the Ted Okuda – Edward Watz book The Columbia Comedy Shorts, the Stooges are said to have received $ 1, 000 among them for their first Columbia effort, Woman Haters, and then signed a term contract for $ 7, 500 per film ( equal to $ today ), to be divided among the trio.

" In his autobiography, Music is my Mistress ( 1973 ), Ellington said he missed more lessons than he attended, feeling at the time that playing the piano was not his talent.

Burton showed a talent for English and Welsh literature at grammar school, and demonstrated an excellent memory, though his consuming interest was sports – rugby ( in fact famous Welsh centre Bleddyn Williams said in his autobiography that Burton could have gone far as a player ), cricket, and table tennis He later said, " I would rather have played for Wales at Cardiff Arms Park than Hamlet at the Old Vic.

In his autobiography, published in 1909, he said,

It was thus he formed, as his autobiography records: “ the deep impression of there being a man in Vienna who actually listened with attention to every word his patients said to him ... a revolutionary difference from the attitude of previous physicians ...” ( Jones 1959 p159 ).

Master of magic Robert-Houdin was born Jean Eugène Robert in Blois, France, on 6 December 1805 — a day after his autobiography said he was.

In an autobiography, Mantle said he married Merlyn not out of love, but because he was told to by his domineering father.

In his first autobiography Tenzing said that he believed the Yeti was a large ape, and although he had never seen it himself his father had seen one twice, but in his second autobiography he said he had become much more skeptical about its existence.

She was the wife of Sir Michael Redgrave and mother of Vanessa, Lynn and Corin, and published her autobiography, Life Among the Redgraves, in 1988.

In his autobiography, Cardano claimed that his mother had attempted to abort him.

In her autobiography Thank Heaven she states that she became an American citizen — evidently based on her mother having been born in the United States — in time to vote for Barack Obama for president.

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.

Wallace's autobiography contains many stories from his boyhood in Covington, including the account of the death of his mother in 1834.

In 1980, after the international success the biography Sophia Loren: Living and Loving, Her Own Story by A. Hotchner, Loren portrayed herself and her mother in a made-for-television biopic adaptation of her autobiography entitled Sophia Loren: Her Own Story.

Years later, Leah Rosenberg, Richler's mother, published an autobiography, The Errand Runner: Memoirs of a Rabbi's Daughter ( 1981 ), which discusses Mordecai's birth and upbringing, and the sometime difficult relationship between them.

It is an autobiography of his early years presented in the form of a novel, with false names being given to the central characters, including Sassoon himself, who appears as " George Sherston ," and his mother (" Aunt Evelyn ").

In her autobiography, The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Gilman wrote that her mother showed affection only when she thought her young daughter was asleep.

( In Harpo's autobiography, he says that mother Minnie Marx sent him the harp.

" She has visited the White House six times since 1976, under both Republican and Democratic presidents, and in her autobiography, she said her father was a Republican and her mother was a Democrat.

However, film director Franco Zeffirelli, who claims to have known her well, states in his autobiography that Magnani was born in Alexandria, Egypt to an Italian Jewish mother and Egyptian father, and that " only later did she become Roman, when her grandmother brought her from Egypt and raised her in one of the Roman slum districts.

According to Antheil's autobiography The Bad Boy of Music ( 1945 ), he was " so crazy about music ", that his mother sent him to the countryside where no pianos were available.

Bennett makes little reference to his childhood in his autobiography, ' Witness ', but elsewhere he credits his mother with instilling in him the virtues of hard work and tolerance.

He always remembered the words of his mother and cited her in his autobiography, From Immigrant to Inventor ( 1925 ):

Her autobiography contains a photograph of her mother but has no photos of her father or son.

Trist was born in September 1909 ( according to his autobiography ), of a Cornish father and a Scottish mother.

In his autobiography, Ellis characterized his mother as a self-absorbed woman with a bipolar disorder.

Muir was born in Deerness, where his mother was also born, at Haco, remembered in his autobiography as " Haco ".

He began being called " Billy " after his grandmother ( Joan's mother ) started calling him " Bello " ( Italian masculine for " beautiful "; Martin said in his autobiography Number One that she would also call him " Bellitz ", a dialectical version of the same word ).

Her autobiography, Such Sweet Compulsion, published in 1938, was written in alternating chapters purporting to be her own words and those of her mother, with Mrs Farrar rather floridly recounting her daughter's many accomplishments.

His mother, Patricia Evangeline Anne ( née Arbuthnot ), was the granddaughter of British colonial administrator Henry Arthur Blake and British politician George Arbuthnot ; she had written an autobiography, Figure of Eight.

According to his autobiography, his mother beat him constantly as a child.