Why did I choose to fill these pages in this particular issue with this mixture of rather tenuous reflections and autobiography??

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.

He published his autobiography, I Built Cars ( Ich Baute Autos ) in 1937.

Lerner's autobiography The Street Where I Live ( 1978 ), was an account of three of his and Loewe's successful collaborations, My Fair Lady, Gigi, and Camelot along with personal information.

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.

The best known fictional representation of the Emperor Claudius were the books I, Claudius and Claudius the God ( published in 1934 and 1935 ) by Robert Graves, both written in the first-person to give the reader the impression that they are Claudius ' autobiography.

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.

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

" There was always music in our house ," Gaynor wrote in her autobiography, I Will Survive.

" All through my young life I wanted to sing, although nobody in my family knew it ," Gaynor wrote in her autobiography.

Furthermore, I felt then, as I do now, that fiction and autobiography are very different modes.

Hulk Hogan wrote in his autobiography that Mr. T saved the main event of WrestleMania I between them and " Rowdy " Roddy Piper and " Mr. Wonderful " Paul Orndorff because when he arrived, security would not let his entourage into the building.

Unlike many of his contemporaries, he did not record in the early blues era, but his life is well documented thanks to his autobiography, I Say Me for a Parable: The Oral Autobiography of Mance Lipscomb, Texas Bluesman, narrated to Glen Alyn, which was published posthumously, and also a short 1971 documentary by Les Blank, A Well Spent Life.

Benaud erroneously recalled in an autobiography that this was his maiden wicket — it was his fourth — and described the ball as " the worst I ever bowled ".

On the subject of pitchers, in Ted's autobiography written with John Underwood, Ted opines regarding Bob Lemon ( a sinker-ball specialist ) pitching for Cleveland Indians around 1951: " I have to rate Lemon as one of the very best pitchers I ever faced.

In 2010 Anderson released her autobiography entitled The Way I See It-A Look Back at My Life on Little House.

In his third autobiography, Douglass wrote: " On one occasion I had eleven fugitives at the same time under my roof, and it was necessary for them to remain with me until I could collect sufficient money to get them on to Canada.

Jennings later expressed in his autobiography " I didn't like Waylon.

He wrote in his autobiography that it was Here, in this courageous New Englander's refusal to pay his taxes and his choice of jail rather than support a war that would spread slavery's territory into Mexico, I made my first contact with the theory of nonviolent resistance.

In 2000, Shepherd's bestselling autobiography was published, titled Cybill Disobedience: How I Survived Beauty Pageants, Elvis, Sex, Bruce Willis, Lies, Marriage, Motherhood, Hollywood, and the Irrepressible Urge to Say What I Think, written in collaboration with Aimee Lee Ball.

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.

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.

Kästner wrote about his childhood in his 1957 autobiography When I Was a Little Boy.

The existence of the GRU was not publicized during the Soviet era, although documents concerning it became available in the West in the late 1920s and it was mentioned in the 1931 memoirs of the first OGPU defector, Georges Agabekov, and described in detail in the 1939 autobiography ( I Was Stalin's Agent ) of Walter Krivitsky, the most senior Red Army intelligence officer ever to defect.

* Murder Was My Business by John Du Rose ( Mayflower Books, St Albans 1973 ) is the autobiography of the policeman who investigated the nude murders, and includes chapters on many of his famous cases.

Ure is a recovering alcoholic ; something he openly admits and discusses in his autobiography If I Was.

During the last five years of his life he wrote an autobiography, Was ich erlebte, and after his death his Nachgelassene Schriften ( 1846 ) was published.

In his partly ghostwritten autobiography, Where the Money Was: The Memoirs of a Bank Robber ( Viking Press, New York, 1976 ), Sutton dismissed this story, saying:

Alfred Neubauer, a famous motor racing team manager, refers to Hanussen in his autobiography ,' Speed Was My Life ' ( first published in English in 1960 ).

He retired to Douglas, Isle of Man in the 1950s, and wrote an autobiography There Was a Time ( 1967 ) which became a play Hanky Park ( 1968 ).

* And There Was Light: autobiography of Jacques Lusseyran, blind hero of the French Resistance.

He later moved to Mallorca, while working on Because I Was Flesh, an autobiography which was published in 1964.

* 1964 Because I Was Flesh, autobiography

) Prof. Lemieux published an autobiography, entitled " Explorations with Sugars: How Sweet It Was ," in 1990.

( According to Clayton Moore's autobiography, I Was That Masked Man, Moore never knew why he was replaced with John Hart.

His life story is told in the 1990 film Europa Europa loosely based on his autobiography Ich war Hitlerjunge Salomon ( I Was Hitler Youth Salomon ).

* Ture Nerman's three volume autobiography is called Allt var ungt ( Everything Was Young ), Allt var rött ( Everything Was Red ) and Trots allt!

He also self-published an autobiography titled When Wrestling Was Real.

In 2011 Henry published an autobiography, " What Was I Thinking ".

According to Pohl, in his autobiography The Way the Future Was, the Futurians held their own counter-convention which was attended by several who went to the regular convention.

American Vietnam veteran and Medal of Honor recipient Senator Bob Kerrey, who lost half his leg in the war, sang the song to his supporters after being elected to the United States Senate in 1988, and borrowed the first line for the title of his autobiography, When I Was A Young Man: A Memoir.