Stanisław Ulam, another mathematician of the Lwów School of Mathematics, in his autobiography, quotes Banach as saying:

He called the book “ automathography ” rather than “ autobiography ”, because its focus is almost entirely on his life as a mathematician, not his personal life.

Sidis is also discussed in Ex-Prodigy, an autobiography by mathematician Norbert Wiener ( 1894 – 1964 ), who was a prodigy himself and a contemporary of Sidis at Harvard.

In his autobiography Atre has devoted one full chapter to Cambridge educated mathematician Wrangler R. P. Paranjpe whose personality made a tremendous impact on him when he was studying for his BA degree at Ferguson College in Pune where R. P.

Dodds, in his autobiography The Baby Dodds Story, tells the story of making his first drum:

* Thomas Merton, in his autobiography Seven Story Mountain, tells of living in Ealing for a time with his Aunt and Uncle.

In Chuck Berry's autobiography, Berry tells of how he declared there would be no drinking in the car, while on the road.

In his autobiography, How You Play the Game, Colangelo tells of working after graduating college at the House of Charles, a tuxedo rental shop in Chicago Heights.

As he tells the story in his autobiography, although various spiritual leaders had urged him at various points in his life to strike out on his own path, it was not until near the end of his years that he felt fully confident to assume the mantle of the teacher.

In her 1938 fictionalized autobiography " We Lived as Children ," San Francisco native Kathryn Hulme captured this difference, as her persona tells of watching San Francisco burn after the tragic 1906 earthquake.

His 1996 autobiography, Half Luck and Half Brains, tells the story of Holiday Inn.

While living there she more or less takes charge of Karabekian's life and tells him to start writing an autobiography, which he does.

Enid Bagnold, in her autobiography, tells of unwittingly smuggling silver across the English Channel for him after the war.

In The Woman Within ( 1954 ), an autobiography written for posthumous publication, Glasgow tells of a long, secret affair with a married man she had met in New York, whom she called " Gerald B.

In his autobiography, called Dual Allegiance, Dunkelman tells the story of how, between July 8 and 18, 1948 during Operation Dekel, he led the 7th Brigade and its supporting units as it moved to capture the town of Nazareth.

Julie Newmar, Vida Boheme ( Patrick Swayze ) gives a copy of Vreeland's autobiography to a thrift-store clerk and tells him to " commit sections to memory.

The Manuscript is Everhard's autobiography as she tells of: her privileged childhood as the daughter of an accomplished scientist ; her marriage to the socialist revolutionary Ernest Everhard ; the fall of the US republic ; and her years in the underground resistance from the First Revolt through the years leading to the Second Revolt.

Nat Love's autobiography tells of many adventures fighting against cattle rustlers and inclement weather.

* Mao's Last Dancer ( film ) ( 2009 )-Based on the autobiography of Chinese dancer Li Cunxin, this movie tells the story of his selection from an impoverished rural village to train at Madame Mao's Beijing Dance Academy.

Her autobiography tells not only about raising Nancy, whom she had at twenty and also describes Nancy as disturbed from a young age, but also her life following Nancy's murder in regard to her and her family's treatment by the judicial system and the press.

In 2008, Andy Taylor published an autobiography, Wild Boy: My Life in Duran Duran, in which he tells his life's story from youth in an extended family to his life with wife Tracey.

Other than what he tells us in his autobiography, namely that he worked as a portrait-painter, glass-painter and land-surveyor, we have little record of how he lived during the first years of his married life.

He often commented on the literary life: the first edition of his autobiography came out with the title A Mug's Game, a quotation from T. S. Eliot, whom Hamburger greatly admired, and to whose sixtieth-birthday biblio-symposium he contributed an eponymous poem of four stanzas which tells its own story.

The film Brian's Song, loosely based on Gale Sayers ' autobiography, tells the story of the friendship between Brian Piccolo and Gale Sayers and their time during football with the Chicago Bears up until Brian Piccolo's death.

Written as a fictional autobiography, this novel tells the story of middle-aged protagonist Thomas MacMillan, who, in his struggle to understand himself and his origins, reflects on the relative isolation of his early life with his unconventional Trinidadian grandmother.

Etheridge tells both in her autobiography and during the interview on the bonus DVD of her greatest hits album that Come to My Window is of all songs she has written the one that surprises her the most and that she almost did not put it on the album.

Kriyānanda tells these stories in his autobiography, The New Path.

As a coming-of-age autobiography, the book tells the story of Thompson's childhood in an Evangelical Christian family, his first love, and his early adulthood.

The artist Jerome Myers speaks of him in his autobiography " Artist In Manhattan " ( Chapter XXVII: Among My Contemporaries ) ( 1940 ) " Alfred Maurer, whom I knew casually, had a pleasant personality.

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.

* Sterling Nelson Brown's autobiography, My Own Life Story

* Wanderer, an autobiography by Sterling Hayden

* Archives include Letters to Babbage, Letters in the Wellcome Library, including a 9 page autobiography in French, etc.

* Excerpts from Mulligan's oral autobiography at the Library of Congress

But he is best known for his Lives of the Norths, published after his death, together with his own autobiography ( edition in Bohn's Standard Library, 1890, by Augustus Jessopp ), a n authority for the period.

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.

* Howard Dietz papers ( research materials assembled in preparation for his autobiography ) in the Music Division of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.

* Harvey E. Van Kannel and Joanne Fox Marshall, T. Van Kannel, the inventor: his autobiography and journal, 1988, Library of Congress control number 88091258

This, the most accurate edition of all so far published, served as a basis for Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography: A Norton Critical Edition and for the text of this autobiography printed in the Library of America's edition of Franklin's Writings.

* Library of Congress video of Gregorian discussing autobiography

Initially unable to find a job in journalism, Thompson worked a number of small clerical jobs while continuing to write small personal writing projects and, thanks in part to a fellowship from Newberry Library, an autobiography.

In 1961 he published his autobiography, "" An Oklahoma Lawyer " which remains in the Library Of Congress catalogue in Washington, DC.

Members of the Library Company soon opened their own book presses to make donations: A Collection of Several Pieces, by John Locke ; Logic: or, the Art of Thinking, by the Port Royalists Antoine Arnauld and Pierre Nicole, which Franklin in his autobiography said he had read at the age of 16 ; Plutarch's Moralia translated by Philemon Holland ; Lewis Roberts ' Merchants Mappe of Commerce, and others.