** Clifford Irving admits to a New York court that he had fabricated Howard Hughes ' " autobiography ".

Yet, in what may shock the sporting establishment, he admits to sleeping with both women and men before accepting his sexuality as a gay man in his autobiography Come What May: The Autobiography ( ISBN 978-0141044514 ).

Other literary friends included, Ford Madox Ford, John Galsworthy, W. H. Hudson, George Bernard Shaw ( who openly admits his debt to Graham for " Captain Brassbound's Conversion " as well as a key line in " Arms and the Man ") and G. K. Chesterton, who proclaimed him " The Prince of Preface Writers " and famously declared in his autobiography that while Cunninghame Graham would never be allowed to be Prime Minister, he instead " achieved the adventure of being Cunninghame Graham ", which Shaw described as " an achievement so fantastic that it would never be believed in a romance.

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

He also insists that Yun in no way represents the house-churches in China, although Lamb admits he has never met Yun nor read Yun's autobiography

Palfrey's autobiography contains a melodramatic account of two perilous days spent among the planters of Attakapas, `` many of whom were coarse & passionate people, much excited by what they heard of my plans ''.

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.

( Jones frequently claimed, including in the aforementioned autobiography, that this happened because Warner finally learned they weren't making Mickey Mouse cartoons ).

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.

In his autobiography, " My Life ", Burt Reynolds recalls Lemmon as the quintessential gentleman who never spoke ill of anybody, even if they deserved it.

Diggle claimed in his autobiography that he and Shelley had only granted the BBC use of their name under the impression that it would be a one-off, probably unsuccessful pilot, and that they are now mildly disgruntled that the name is more readily associated in Britain with the TV series than with their band.

In his autobiography, he discussed the years of problems they had experienced because of Leigh's illness: " Throughout her possession by that uncannily evil monster, manic depression, with its deadly ever-tightening spirals, she retained her own individual canniness – an ability to disguise her true mental condition from almost all except me, for whom she could hardly be expected to take the trouble.

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 her 2005 autobiography, she writes that she was manipulated into sitting on the battery ; she had been horrified at the implications of the pictures and regretted they were taken.

Evidence of LeMay's thinking is that, in his 1965 autobiography ( co-written with MacKinlay Kantor ) LeMay is quoted as saying his response to North Vietnam would be to demand that " they ’ ve got to draw in their horns and stop their aggression, or we ’ re going to bomb them back into the Stone Age.

In his 1995 autobiography Take It Like a Man, Boy George discusses how he had felt an affinity towards Crisp during his childhood, as they faced similar problems as young homosexual people living in homophobic surroundings.

Former Youngstown resident Jack Warner noted in his autobiography that the Warner brothers took their first step into the movie business when they screened a used copy of The Great Train Robbery at Idora Park and other local venues.

Although details are sketchy — they appear to have been excised from a franker first draft of the autobiography by the Trappist censors — most of Merton's biographers agree that he fathered a child with one of the women he encountered at Cambridge and there was some kind of legal action pending that was settled discreetly by Bennett.

In the summer of 2011, Simon & Schuster announced they would publish Ronstadt's autobiography.

Kiedis later stated in his autobiography, Scar Tissue that Jimi Hendrix's sister had asked the Chili Peppers to play " Fire " in honor of Jimi and his performance at the original Woodstock festival, and that they were not playing it to encourage the crowd.

In his autobiography, he described his boyhood pursuits, which included fighting, either by re-enacting romantic battles from the Wars of Scottish Independence or just scrapping on the playground, and hunting for birds ' nests ( ostensibly to one-up his fellows as they compared notes on who knew where the most were located ).

Colley Cibber wrote in his autobiography that the owners of the United Company, " who had made a monopoly of the stage, and consequently presumed they might impose what conditions they pleased upon their people, did not consider that they were all this while endeavouring to enslave a set of actors whom the public … were inclined to support.

Powell and Moore have been married since 1988, when they met while Moore was researching for his own autobiography, Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star, But Don't Have Sex or Take the Car.

Both husband and wife were known for their good senses of humor, he particularly for his love of subtle jokes and language puns: they published a family history entitled, Life with Chaos: the autobiography of a Chinese family.

In his autobiography, he said that he and his wife were feeling homesick in Grimsby and, when an opportunity came to manage Workington, he was attracted to the challenge partly because they would be closer to Scotland.

Communard Rainer Langhans mentions in his autobiography that he and Uschi Obermaier met Green in Munich, where they invited him to their Highfisch-Kommune.

He came to regard his animation experiments in particular as being rather juvenile ( they receive no mention in his unpublished autobiography ).

As documented in her 1994 autobiography, initially, much of Wagoner's audience was unhappy, that Norma Jean, the performer whom Parton had replaced, had left the show, and was reluctant to accept Parton ( sometimes chanting loudly for Norma Jean from the audience ).

According to his autobiography Bessemer was working with an ordinary reverbatory furnace but during a test, some pieces of pig iron were jostled off the side of the ladle, and were left above the ladle in the furnace's heat.

She left incomplete the manuscript of a last work, her autobiography, whose contents narrate her early life until Arthur's birth.

In her own autobiography, Lanchester acknowledged having had two abortions in her youth ( one of the pregnancies purportedly by Laughton ) although she didn't mention whether this had indeed left her incapable of becoming pregnant again.

In his criticism of fiction, the theatre, and painting he developed ideas concerning the unity of the arts ; he wrote two full-length biographies, two volumes of memoirs of his childhood and a long fragment of autobiography ; 22 novels, including two left unfinished at his death, 112 tales of varying lengths, fifteen plays, and dozens of travel and topical essays.

In his autobiography, Shooting for Glory, Henderson stated that the fame left him less satisfied than he had ever been.

In his autobiography, I Was a Teenage Sex Pistol, Matlock stated that he left the band of his own volition as he was " sick of all the bullshit ".

Lanchester admitted in her autobiography that she had had two abortions in her youth ( one of whom was sired by Laughton ), but it is not clear if these left her incapable of becoming pregnant again.

In her 2002 autobiography, Still Woman Enough, and in an interview with CBS News the same year, Lynn recounts how her husband cheated on her regularly and once left her while she was giving birth.

Voss left a short autobiography, Abriß meines Lebens ( 1818 ).

On his death, he left an autobiography in manuscript, which was edited ( 1898 ) by Miss M. Betham-Edwards, and is the main authority for his life.

In his autobiography, Shankly wrote that Preston " more than held our own in the 1934 – 35 season " and the club was not relegated again until the end of the 1948 – 49 season in which he left them.

He left a number of unpublished works, including his autobiography, two novels, four short novels, two plays and poetry.

Despite still producing some of the most original works in Spanish of the twentieth century — the existential-surrealist novel El hombre perdido Lost Man ( 1947 ) and his extraordinary neo-baroque autobiography Automoribundia ( Automoribund ) — his life in exile was one of pathetic isolation and increasing poverty, neither of which were helped by the knowledge that he had left behind ( and in 1947 donated to the Spanish State ) the celebrated painting of the Pombo Tertulia by Gutiérrez-Solana ( now given pride of place in Madrid ’ s Reina Sofia Museum ) and the equally famous cubist portrait of him painted in 1915 by Diego Rivera ( which was lost without trace during the civil war but has apparently resurfaced to become the ‘ property ’ of a Mexican millionaire ).

He has left us an autobiography, to be found in Assemani, Biblioth.

Mohandas Gandhi wrote in his autobiography The Story of My Experiments with Truth ( Part II, Chapter 15 ) that this book " overwhelmed " him and " left an abiding impression.

In 1932, he left Trinidad for the small town of Nelson in Lancashire, England, at the invitation of his friend, West Indian cricketer Learie Constantine, who needed his help writing his autobiography Cricket and I ( published in 1933 ).

In his autobiography Arthur Rubinstein criticized Hofmann as someone who took interest in only the mechanics of music and not in its heart or spirituality, and commented that at the end of Hofmann's career " he was left with nothing after his technique left him ".

Around 1955 she also wrote a partial autobiography, China Eggs, which covered her life up to about the time she left San Faustino, but she never tried to publish it.

The first part, for which all rights are reserved, begins with a fictionalized autobiography, continuing where the similar section of PiHKAL left off ; it then continues with a collection of essays on topics ranging from psychotherapy and the Jungian mind to the prevalence of DMT in nature, ayahuasca and the War on Drugs.

* Sully left a collection of memoirs written in the second person very valuable for the history of the time and as an autobiography, in spite of the fact that they contain many fictions, such as a mission undertaken by Sully to Queen Elizabeth I of England in 1601.

Fleming left home at age fifteen in 1947, and moved to Washington D. C. where Red Snyder discovered her either working in a doughnut shop ( according to her autobiography ) or as a hat check girl ( according to other sources ).

At the beginning of the 1985 season, Bowa lost the Cubs ' starting shortstop job to Shawon Dunston, which left the 39-year-old Bowa discontented with the Cubs ' organization ; after becoming the San Diego Padres ' manager in 1987, Bowa vented his frustrations with the Cubs in an autobiography, titled " Bleep!