Discussing the writing of Destruction in his autobiography, Hilberg wrote: " No literature could serve me as an example.

Simpson was born in London and reveals in his autobiography that his father was an anarchist.

In his autobiography Seldom Disappointed ( 2002 ), Hillerman reveals that he named Leaphorn after the ancient Minoan practice of bull-jumping, as he was reading a book on Minoan culture while writing his first novel.

Bob Monkhouse was a guest star on the tenth episode, and his autobiography reveals he did so fully intending to demonstrate to the producers that he should replace Rae as host.

The grimoire is framed as a sort of epistolary novel or autobiography in which Abraham of Worms describes his journey from Germany to Egypt and reveals Abramelin's magical and Kabbalistic secrets to his son Lamech.

In his autobiography, Horwood ( nicknamed Craig Revel Horrid ) reveals that at the age of 17 he made money by appearing as a drag queen in bars and clubs and that his relationship with an unnamed celebrity was akin to prostitution.

A DVD extra on Heartbreak And Triumph, and in Michaels's autobiography of the same, titled The Rockers " Fight " reveals that they got into a legit fight on an in May 1991 that was instigated by Roddy Piper.

General Krishnaswamy Sundarji's autobiography reveals that Boyd knew each student personally.

In his autobiography Dunwoody reveals that he experienced a messy divorce with his former wife Carol.

As told in his autobiography, Douglass succeeded in learning to read from white children in the neighborhood and by observing the writings of men with whom he worked.

She is a Welsh-speaker: in the first volume of her autobiography ( Private Faces ) she notes that she spoke only Welsh for much of her childhood, learning English by listening to the radio.

The young Goethe told his sister in 1766 that he was learning English from Young and Milton, and in his autobiography he confessed that the Young's influence had created the atmosphere in which there was such a universal response to his seminal work The Sorrows of Young Werther.

In her autobiography, Dorian claimed that she was born in 1920 and graduated from High School at age 15 in 1935, because she took many classes because she loved learning and the school was overcrowded.

In 2005, Gardner published his autobiography ( co-written by Bob Schaller ), Never Stop Pushing: My Life from a Wyoming Farm to the Olympic Medals Stand, in which he describes his Greco-Roman wrestling career, his academic struggles ( as someone who suffers from a learning disability ) and an account of his near-death experience when getting stranded after a snowmobile accident.

The comic actor Charlie Chaplin, who spent some time with his mother in Lambeth workhouse, records in his autobiography that when he and his half-brother returned to the workhouse after having been sent to a school in Hanwell, he was met at the gate by his mother Hannah, dressed in her own clothes.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, in his autobiography Confessions ( published posthumously in 1782, but completed in 1769 ), relates that " a great princess " is said to have advised, with regard to peasants who had no bread, " Qu ' ils mangent de la brioche ", commonly inaccurately translated as " Let them eat cake ".

According to Sheldon in his autobiography The Other Side Of Me, he offered to pay the extra $ 400 an episode needed for color filming at the beginning of the series, but Screen Gems executive Jerry Hyams advised him, " Sidney, don't throw your money away ".

However, his autobiography indicates he struggled to fly smoothly and did not solo, having been advised by his instructor Homer Stockert that he didn't " have the touch to be a pilot ".

From the time of Nkrumah's return to the Gold Coast in 1947 to lead the independence movement there, Padmore advised him in long detailed letters, wrote dozens of articles for Nkrumah's newspaper, the Accra Evening News, wrote a history of The Gold Coast Revolution ( 1953 ), and, with Dorothy Pizer, encouraged Nkrumah to write his own autobiography, which he did, publishing it in 1957, the year the Gold Coast became independent Ghana.

" 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 ".

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.

Shy by his own admission, Kelley was the only cast member of the original Star Trek series program never to have written or published an autobiography ; however, the authorized biography From Sawdust to Stardust ( 2005 ) was written posthumously by Terry Lee Rioux of Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas.

Bain's autobiography, published in 1904, contains a full list of his works, and also the history of the last thirteen years of his life by Professor W. L. Davidson of the University of Aberdeen, who further contributed to Mind ( April 1904 ) a review of Bain's services to philosophy.

He attended University College School, the former Allan Glen's School in Glasgow ( a time he described in his autobiography as unhappy, although others have disputed his account ) and later studied at the Chelsea College of Art and Design.

In his autobiography Edition of One, Power details the development of the company, including how University Microfilms assisted the OSS during World War II.

Ferris was born to John Ferris Jr. and Estella ( Reed ) Ferris in a log cabin near Spencer, New York and attended the academies of Spencer, Candor, and Owego ( see autobiography posted on Ferris State University Webpage.

LaRouche wrote in his 1987 autobiography that violent altercations had begun in 1969 between his NCLC members and several New Left groups when Mark Rudd's faction began assaulting LaRouche's faction at Columbia University.

* In 2004, the University of Arkansas Press re-published Thaden's autobiography, High, Wide, and Frightened.

According to his autobiography, he applied to do a law degree at Durham University, but was turned down even though he was good enough

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 1990 his autobiography, titled Moments in the Life of a Scientist, was published by Cambridge University Press.

Smock also states in his autobiography that he attended Graduate School at Indiana State University attaining a Master's Degree in History and writing a Thesis on " the personal effects of smoking seven straight joints of marijuana " while he was a Research Assistant in Psychology for the Institute of Research into Human Behavior at the school.

The story was first adapted for the Abrams Planetarium at Michigan State University in 1966 featuring the voice of Leonard Nimoy, as Asimov wrote in his autobiography In Joy Still Felt.

* Where the Evidence Leads, autobiography by Dick Thornburgh, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007, ISBN 978-0-8229-6112-3

* Faculty autobiography from University of Chicago

Durocher's forthright autobiography was recently re-published by the University of Chicago Press ( ISBN 9780226173887 ).

With author David Steele, Smith wrote his autobiography, entitled Silent Gesture, published in February 2007 by Temple University Press.

C. J. McLin, Jr .' s autobiography is titled Dad, I Served: The Autobiography of C. J. McLin Jr. Wright State University Press, 1998.

In 1939 his family, friends and political colleagues celebrated his 50th wedding anniversary to Lou McKenzie, and in 1941 he published his autobiography entitled Fifty Years of Public Life ( Duke University Press ).

Istanbul Boy: The Autobiography of Aziz Nesin ( Turkish title: Böyle Gelmiş Böyle Gitmez ) is a multi-volume autobiography by Turkish writer Aziz Nesin published by University of Texas Press and Southmoor Studios, in English language translation by Joseph S. Jacobson.

Batten's autobiography, My Life, was published by George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd. in 1938 and is now available in full online at the New Zealand Electronic Text Center, part of the Victoria University of Wellington Library.

In his autobiography, he gave his reasons as ( 1 ) continuing warnings from doctors that he was endangering his health, ( 2 ) concern that striving for individual athletic glory was incompatible with the spirit of his religion, and ( 3 ) demands on his time from the University extension courses that he was taking at Harvard and Boston University.

Manning's autobiography, Frankie Manning: Ambassador of Lindy Hop, written with co-author Cynthia R. Millman, was published by Temple University Press in May 2007.