Even his old literary home, Punch, where the When We Were Very Young verses had first appeared, was ultimately to reject him, as Christopher Milne details in his autobiography The Enchanted Places, although Methuen continued to publish whatever Milne wrote, including the long poem ' The Norman Church ' and an assembly of articles entitled Year In, Year Out ( which Milne likened to a benefit night for the author ).

Some sociologists and psychologists have noted that autobiography offers the author the ability to recreate history.

" In his review of Benaud's autobiography Anything But, Sri Lankan cricket writer Harold de Andrado wrote: " Richie Benaud possibly next to Sir Don Bradman has been one of the greatest cricketing personalities as player, researcher, writer, critic, author, organiser, adviser and student of the game.

He is also the author of two books: his autobiography Songman and a children's book, Tracker Tjginji.

Although the book is an autobiography, Goodyear chose to write it in the third person, so that " the inventor " and " he " referred to in the text are the author.

Good-Bye to All That, an autobiography by Robert Graves, first appeared in 1929, when the author was thirty-four.

Julian became well known throughout England as a spiritual authority: the English mystic ( and author of the first known autobiography written in England ) Margery Kempe mentions going to Norwich to speak with her.

* Eric Lomax, author of The Railway Man, an autobiography based on these events, which is being made into a film of the same name starring Colin Firth and Nicole Kidman.

In the final year of her life she became close with Anna Klumpke, the author of her " autobiography ".

The Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography has been presented since 1917 for a distinguished biography or autobiography by an American author.

In a note to author Dean Jennings, who assisted Warner on his 1964 autobiography, My First Hundred Years in Hollywood, Ann Warner wrote: " He is extremely sensitive, but there are few who know that because he covers it with a cloak.

His later novels, including the Book of Bebb series and Godric, received hearty praise ; in his 1980 review of Godric, Benjamin DeMott summed up a host of positive reviews, saying “ All on his own, Mr. Buechner has managed to reinvent projects of self-purification and of faith as piquant matter for contemporary fiction, producing in a single decade a quintet of books each of which is individual in concerns and knowledge, and notable for literary finish .” In 1982, author Reynolds Price greeted Buechner ’ s The Sacred Journey as “ a rich new vein for Buechner – a kind of detective autobiography ” and “ he result is a short but fascinating and, in its own terms, beautifully successful experiment .”

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

* George Fowler, b. 1930, author of the autobiography " Dance of a fallen monk " and other books, was born and grew up near Conrad and went to high school there.

He was also the author of rhetorical exercises on philosophical themes ; of a Quadrivium ( arithmetic, music, geometry, astronomy ), valuable for the history of music and astronomy in the Middle Ages ; a general sketch of Aristotelian philosophy ; a paraphrase of the speeches and letters of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite ; poems, including an autobiography ; and a description of the square of the Augustaeum, and the column erected by Justinian in the church of Hagia Sophia to commemorate his victories over the Persians.

Jarman was the author of several books including his autobiography Dancing Ledge, a collection of poetry A Finger in the Fishes Mouth, two volumes of diaries Modern Nature and Smiling In Slow Motion and two treatises on his work in film and art The Last of England ( also published as Kicking the Pricks ) and Chroma.

Appearing on television discussion After Dark ( TV series ) | After Dark in 1988In 2001, already the author of several books on the affair, Keeler worked with journalist Douglas Thompson to write her autobiography titled The Truth at Last: My Story.

In his own memoir Palimpsest, the author Gore Vidal gave a personal definition: " a memoir is how one remembers one's own life, while an autobiography is history, requiring research, dates, facts double-checked.

The above tales were related by Kay in his 1994 autobiography Magic Carpet Ride ( co-written with Canadian author John Einarson ).

His autobiography, What's Welsh for Zen ?, was published in 1999 by Bloomsbury, a collaboration with Victor Bockris, author of a controversial biography of Lou Reed.

Joe Barbera wrote in his autobiography, My Life in ' Toons, that the original name for the series was to be " The Banana Bunch ", but Hanna-Barbera was forced to change it after the author of a children's book by that name refused permission to use the title.

John Bunyan, author of Pilgrim's Progress, claimed in his autobiography, Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners, to have encountered Ranters prior to his Baptist conversion.

As an author, Frooks wrote many fiction and nonfiction books, including The Olympic Torch, The American Heart and Lady Lawyer, her autobiography.

PEN / Ackerley Prize ( or, J. R. Ackerley Prize for Autobiography ) is awarded annually by English PEN for a literary autobiography of excellence, written by an author of British nationality and published during the preceding year.

He contributed to the biography of Malcolm Arnold and is the author of flute, his autobiography.

Denver would later tell Arthur Tobier, when the latter transcribed his autobiography, "... I'd bend my principles to support something he wanted of me.

Australian cricketer and cartoonist Arthur Mailey had taken all 10 wickets for 66 runs in a first class match during the 1921 tour of England, and hence titled his 1958 autobiography 10 for 66 And All That.

He edited volumes of the letters of the playwright Oscar Wilde, the writer and caricaturist Max Beerbohm, and the writer George Moore, as well as the diaries of the poet Siegfried Sassoon and the autobiography of Arthur Ransome.

Born Arthur Jacob Arshawsky in New York City, Shaw grew up in New Haven, Connecticut, where, according to his autobiography his natural introversion was deepened by local antisemitism.

Arrow in the Blue is an autobiography covering the first 26 years of Arthur Koestler's life ( 1905 – 1931 ).

Arthur Chapman became a Catholic and so would not give Fanny the divorce she later requested, as it was against the teachings of the Catholic Church, he merited only a single line in Fanny ’ s autobiography.

This was based on a lyrical description of Twmbarlwm's " mystic tumulus " in Monmouthshire that Thomas imitated from Arthur Machen's autobiography Far Off Things ( 1922 )

His mother, Patricia Evangeline Anne ( née Arbuthnot ), was the granddaughter of British colonial administrator Henry Arthur Blake and British politician George Arbuthnot ; she had written an autobiography, Figure of Eight.

Claud Cockburn married three times: to Hope Hale Davis, with whom he fathered Claudia Cockburn Flanders ( wife of Michael Flanders ); to Jean Ross ( part model for Christopher Isherwood's Sally Bowles of Cabaret fame ), with whom he fathered Sarah Caudwell Cockburn, author of detective stories ; and in 1940 to Patricia Byron ( née Patricia Evangeline Anne Arbuthnot ( 17 March 1914-6 October 1989 ), married firstly on 10 October 1933 to Arthur Cecil Byron, son of Cecil Byron, by whom she had a son Darrell Byron, who died in Ireland aged two, divorcing in 1940, daughter of Major John Bernard Arbuthnot and Olive Blake ), who wrote the book The Years of the Week and also wrote an autobiography, Figure of Eight, with whom he fathered Alexander, Andrew ( husband of Leslie Cockburn ), and Patrick, all three of whom are also journalists.

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 ".

* Arthur Askey ( autobiography ).

Mineko Iwasaki, a geisha that Arthur Golden met while writing Memoirs of a Geisha described mizuage in her autobiography as being an initiation party, symbolized on the geisha-to-be by a change in hairstyle rather than the loss of virginity.

Roth has stated that the idea for the novel came to him while reading Arthur Schlesinger, Jr .' s autobiography, in which Schlesinger makes a comment that some of the more radical Republican senators of the day wanted Lindbergh to run against Roosevelt.

His Chopin recordings reveal him as the most compelling, authentic Chopin interpreter of all time although his reputation was substantially damaged by his refusal to give concerts in the USA and by the unsupported negative opinions of Arthur Rubinstein in his autobiography " My Many Years " Pub.

In a publicity quote printed in Hardee's autobiography I Stole Freddie Mercury's Birthday Cake, Arthur Smith wrote that Hardee had " led his life as though for the perfect autobiography and now he has paid himself the compliment of writing it.

We learn that Arthur had killed the last Allitnil, the anti-clone, and Marvin tied up Poodoo and Varntvar, leaving them forced to listen to a cassette tape of Marvin's autobiography.

According to earlier interviews and Dylan's autobiography, Chronicles, it was written virtually on demand when Arthur Baker suggested something simpler for the album's final track.

In 1998 she published her autobiography Fifty-Five Years in Five Acts: My Life in Opera, written with Donald Arthur ( German title is Hab ' mir's gelobt ).

** Arthur Koestler / Arrow in the Blue, the title of an autobiography by Arthur Koestler