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 ''.

Despite his lack of formal education, he wrote many books, including his autobiography, Groucho and Me ( 1959 ) and Memoirs of a Mangy Lover ( 1963 ).

The Detroit press was not so kind regarding the Yom Kippur decision, nor were many fans, but Greenberg in his autobiography recalled that he received a standing ovation from congregants at the Shaarey Zedek synagogue when he arrived.

* According to Alberti himself, in a short autobiography written c. 1438 in Latin and in the third person, ( many but not all scholars consider this work to be an autobiography ) he was capable of " standing with his feet together, and springing over a man's head.

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.

In April 2007, he published his autobiography All Those Moments: Stories of Heroes, Villains, Replicants, and Blade Runners ( co-written with Patrick Quinlan ), where he discusses many of his movie roles.

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

Zhao Ziyang later wrote in his autobiography that, although Deng had stated many of these sentiments in a private conversation with Li Peng shortly before the editorial was written, Li had these comments disseminated to Party members and published as the editorial without Deng's knowledge or consent.

A devout, lifelong Roman Catholic, Welk was a daily communicant, which is corroborated in numerous biographies, by his autobiography and by his family and his many staff, friends and associates throughout the years

In his autobiography, Stevens was at pains to point out the outstanding loyalty and shared dedication to justice that he experienced from many RUC officers.

Composer Frank Zappa said in his autobiography The Real Frank Zappa Book that he agreed with many of the beliefs of the church, but refrained from joining as a full member.

" In her autobiography, Life Is A Banquet, Russell wrote that she thought her role did not have as many good lines as Grant's, so she hired her own writer to " punch up " her dialogue.

Corbett stated in his autobiography that the two had gravitated towards each other because of their similar backgrounds ; neither had attended university, while many of the other Frost Report cast and writers had.

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.

Spurgeon was a prolific author of many types of works including sermons, an autobiography, commentaries, books on prayer, devotionals, magazines, poetry, hymns and more.

Among his many works is his autobiography Vita Joannis de Curiis Dantisci (" The Life of Johannes of the Danzig Church ").

In the two volumes of his autobiography there is no mention of eugenics in the index, nor is Galton mentioned ; and the subject has also been omitted from many of the obituaries and biographies.

The second volume, Meetings with Remarkable Men, is written in an accessible manner, and purports to be an autobiography of his early years, but also contains many allegorical statements.

In 1853, he started a pictorial weekly newspaper Illustrated News and a year later completed his autobiography, which through many revisions, sold more than one million copies.

She spent short periods in apartments rented on her behalf by a decreasing number of friends and supporters, many of whom attempted to assist her in writing an autobiography.

The magnificent gold " button ", or morse ( a clasp for a cape ), made by Cellini for the cape of Clement VII, the competition for which is so graphically described in his autobiography, appears to have been sacrificed by Pope Pius VI, with many other priceless specimens of the goldsmith's art, in furnishing the 30, 000, 000 francs demanded by Napoleon I at the conclusion of the campaign against the Papal States in 1797.

Life lost credibility with many readers when it supported Clifford Irving, whose fraudulent autobiography of Howard Hughes was revealed as a hoax in January 1972.

Though her financial support enabled Antheil to maintain a degree of independence in his work, many feel he should have done more in his autobiography to recognize the length and extent of her contribution to his career.

" These criteria for autobiography generally persisted until recent times, and most serious autobiographies of the next three hundred years conformed to them.

The sequence implicitly labeled Baez a limousine liberal, a charge she took to heart, as detailed years later in her 1987 autobiography, And A Voice To Sing With: A Memoir.

According to his autobiography, the incident occurred " some years ago ".

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.

* Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe was supposedly the autobiography of the title character, an English castaway who spent 28 years on a remote island.

However, some 22 years later, in the 1740 autobiography, he offered a different explanation, claiming that he was motivated by his desire for university education.

Ten years later and having reached 100 years of age, Margaret Murray published her final work, an autobiography entitled My First Hundred Years ( 1963 ).

It was originally written in Latin and was completed in 1371 or 1372-the first such autobiography in a thousand years ( since Saint Augustine ).

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 addition to Moral and Political Philosophy and the Evidences Charles Darwin read Natural Theology during his student years and later stated in his autobiography that he was initially convinced by the argument.

In his 1982 autobiography Mon Dernier soupir ( My Last Sigh, 1983 ), Buñuel wrote that, over the years, he had rejected Dalí's attempts at reconciliation.

Gardner stated in her autobiography Ava: My Story, that she was never in love with Howard Hughes, but he was in and out of her life for about twenty years.

Epistolary, confessional, and didactic in form, the book is a fictional autobiography of the title character ( whose birth name is Robinson Kreutznaer )— a castaway who spends 28 years on a remote tropical island near Trinidad, encountering cannibals, captives, and mutineers before being rescued.

During this period he wrote The Treasure House of Images, edited early sections of Crowley's magical autobiography The Temple of Solomon the King and produced highly-regarded paintings dealing with A. A. teachings: these paintings have been used in recent years as the covers of the journal's revival, The Equinox, Volume IV .

Writing in his autobiography four years after Harte's death, however, Mark Twain characterized him and his writing as insincere.

Laura Beatrice Berton's autobiography of life in the Yukon entitled I Married the Klondike was published in her later years and gave her, what her son Pierre describes as ' a modicum of fame, which she thoroughly enjoyed.

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 his autobiography, Crockett told that his early years were filled with adventure, hardship, and travel.

In his last years, Buchan, amongst other works, wrote an autobiography, Memory Hold-the-Door, as well as works on the history and his views of Canada.

Zinn's years at Spelman are recounted in his autobiography You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times.

Radner wrote in her autobiography It's Always Something toward the end of her life, " I coped with stress by having every possible eating disorder from the time I was nine years old.

In 2000, she published her autobiography, My Life as a 10-Year-Old Boy, and four years later adapted it into a one-woman play.

In her autobiography, Retrospection and Introspection, Eddy writes " I then withdrew from society about three years ,-- to ponder my mission, to search the Scriptures, to find the Science of Mind that should take the things of God and show them to the creature, and reveal the great curative Principle, -- Deity.