Virgilia Peterson, a critic by trade, has turned her critical eye pitilessly and honestly on herself in an autobiography more of the mind and heart than of specific events.

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.

While an autobiography typically focuses on the " life and times " of the writer, a memoir has a narrower, more intimate focus on his or her own memories, feelings and emotions.

The term " fictional autobiography " has been coined to define novels about a fictional character written as though the character were writing their own biography, of which Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders, is an early example.

" Burt Ward, who portrayed Robin in the 1960s television show, has also remarked upon this interpretation in his autobiography Boy Wonder: My Life in Tights ; he writes that the relationship could be interpreted as a sexual one, with the show's double entendres and lavish camp also possibly offering ambiguous interpretation.

In addition to acting and occasionally directing, Campbell has become a writer, starting with an autobiography, If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor published on August 24, 2002.

Since her death in 1968 and the publication of her daughter Imogen's autobiography, A Childhood at Green Hedges, Blyton has emerged as an emotionally immature, unstable and often malicious figure.

Chess historian Edward Winter has questioned this, stating that the earliest known sources that support this story are an article by Robert Lewis Taylor in the June 15, 1940, issue of The New Yorker and Marshall's autobiography My 50 Years of Chess ( 1942 ).

Helen reflects upon this coincidence in her first autobiography, stating " that there is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.

Rousseau's autobiographical writings — his Confessions, which initiated the modern autobiography, and his Reveries of a Solitary Walker — exemplified the late 18th-century movement known as the Age of Sensibility, featuring an increasing focus on subjectivity and introspection that has characterized the modern age.

My Father Knew Charles Ives ( 2003 ): Adams writes, " My Father Knew Charles Ives is musical autobiography, an homage and encomium to a composer whose influence on me has been huge.

* Arctic Passage at PBS ' Nova site has photographs, maps, excerpts from Amundsen's autobiography and an interview with Roland Huntford.

" 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.

In his autobiography, Darwin wrote that " The old argument of design in nature, as given by Paley, which formerly seemed to me so conclusive, fails, now that the law of natural selection has been discovered ".

An autobiography has been published, " My Life as a Miracle " ( ISBN 0-908812-73-6 )

Tharp has written three books: an early autobiography, Push Comes to Shove ( 1992 ; Bantam Books ); The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life ( 2003, Simon & Schuster ), translated into Spanish, Chinese, Russian, Korean, Thai and Japanese ; “ The Collaborative Habit ” ( 2009, Simon & Schuster ), also translated into Thai, Chinese and Korean.

The media have sensationalized him with the sobriquet, " the Devil's advocate ", and he himself has contributed to his " notorious " public persona by such acts as titling his autobiography The Brilliant Bastard and giving provocative replies in interviews.

In her autobiography, Shepherd addressed rumors that she was jealous of her co-stars Bruce Willis and Christine Baranski for winning Emmy awards while she has not: " The grain of truth is this: Who doesn't want to win an Emmy?

He tried to explain his anguish after the murder of his wife and unborn son in his 1984 autobiography Roman by Polanski, saying " Since Sharon's death, and despite appearances to the contrary, my enjoyment of life has been incomplete.

In addition, Beckham has released two best-selling books ; one her autobiography, the other a fashion guide.

Of particular note is 5 September 1853 ; Wagner claimed in his autobiography Mein Leben that on this date the musical idea came to him while he was half asleep in a hotel in La Spezia in Italy, but this has been disputed by Deathridge and others.

He has written poems and published an autobiography called My Two Worlds.

Fitzroy Maclean's autobiography Eastern Approaches has a chapter devoted to this trial, which he witnessed while working in Moscow for the British Foreign Office.

Nimoy has written two volumes of autobiography.

In 1997 Hill published her autobiography, Speaking Truth to Power, in which she chronicled her role in the Clarence Thomas confirmation controversy and wrote that creating a better society had been a motivating force in her life.

Dr. Chaim Weizmann wrote in his autobiography Trial and Error that Palestine had been excluded from the areas that should have been Arab and independent.

He stated in his 1974 autobiography, " We were so poor and everybody around us was so poor that it was the forties before anyone even knew there had been a depression.

The greasepaint mustache and eyebrows originated spontaneously prior to a vaudeville performance in the early 1920s when he did not have time to apply the pasted-on mustache he had been using ( or, according to his autobiography, simply did not enjoy the removal of the mustache every night because of the effects of tearing an adhesive bandage off the same patch of skin every night ).

Yet, writer Gore Vidal, in his autobiography Point to Point Navigation, recounted that Gable demanded that Cukor be fired off Wind because, according to Cukor, the young Gable had been a male hustler and Cukor had been one of his johns.

Keith suggests in his autobiography " Life " that Mick Jagger may have been the real driver for Parson ' departure given that Keith spent so much time playing music with Gram.

He moved to Rome, received a lifetime annuity from Pope Gregory XIII ( after first having been rejected by Pope Pius V ) and finished his autobiography.

" In his posthumously published autobiography, Peel revealed that he had been raped by an older pupil while at Shrewsbury.

He also enjoyed painting, and claimed in his autobiography that he might have been happier as a painter than a movie star, if somewhat poorer.

In her autobiography Thank Heaven she states that she became an American citizen — evidently based on her mother having been born in the United States — in time to vote for Barack Obama for president.

In his autobiography, Plummer said that Chapman was to have been a technical adviser on the film but the French authorities would not allow him in the country because he was still wanted over an alleged plot to kidnap the Sultan of Morocco.

Wagner claimed in his 1870 autobiography Mein Leben that he had been inspired to write The Flying Dutchman following a stormy sea crossing he made from Riga to London in July and August 1839.

Bank robber Harvey Bailey would later complain in his 1973 autobiography that he and Fred Burke had been drinking beer in Calumet City at the time of the massacre, and the resulting heat forced them to abandon their bank robbing ventures.

Frank Bartholomew, the last UP president to ascend to the agency's top job directly from its news, rather than sales, ranks, took over in 1955, and according to his cited autobiography, was obsessed with merging UP with the International News Service, a news agency that had been founded by William Randolph Hearst in 1909 following Scripps ' lead.

Dunaway would later express regret for her portrayal of Crawford in her autobiography, Looking for Gatsby, believing that her career had been damaged by the portrayal and at the hands of Crawford's friends.

Years later, Bonanno wrote in his autobiography that he didn't know about the plan to kill Maranzano, but this is highly unlikely ; Luciano would have almost certainly had him killed as well had he still been loyal to Maranzano.

Her autobiography, titled La Détresse et l ' enchantement, was published posthumously in 1984 ; translated into English as Enchantment and Sorrow.

* Doppelleben ( 1950 ); autobiography translated as Double Life ( edited, translated, and with a preface by Simona Draghici, Plutarch Press, 2002, ISBN 0-943045-19-3 ).

He also translated the autobiography of Marie Curie into Hindi.

The closest one has to an autobiography of Kahnweiler is the series of interviews Mes galeries et mes peintres first aired on French television then published and translated as a book.

His autobiography, found in his Commentarius de rebus ad eum pertinentibus ( Paris, 1718 ), has been translated into French and into English.

Virtually all her verse is veiled autobiography written in the French language ; most of it has never been translated into English.

His autobiography, Stürmisches Leben was published in 1956 and translated into English as He1000 in its British edition and Stormy Life: Memoirs of a Pioneer of the Air Age in its US edition.

He also translated Gandhi's autobiography, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, into English.

His autobiography has been translated and published as The Wind Spirit ( Beacon Press, 1988 ).

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, in his autobiography Confessions ( published posthumously in 1782, but completed in 1769 ), relates that " a great princess " is said to have advised, with regard to peasants who had no bread, " Qu ' ils mangent de la brioche ", commonly inaccurately translated as " Let them eat cake ".

In 1874 John Bigelow translated it to English ( from a French version ) and claimed that Benjamin Franklin wrote it, including it in his autobiography, The Life of Benjamin Franklin, published that year.

He originally planned to be a journalist, and translated an autobiography of Jawaharlal Nehru into Sinhala.

The original manuscript of the Gorky version was first translated and published in English in 1967, by Nina Froud and James Hanley, as Chaliapin: An autobiography as told to Maxim Gorky ( Stein and Day, New York ), and included an appendix of original correspondence including a section relating to Gorky.

Shortly thereafter, her autobiography Makeba: My Story was published and subsequently translated from English into other languages including German, French, Dutch, Italian and Spanish.

His Bengali-language autobiography, Jiboner Jalsaghorey, has been published by the renowned Ananda Publisher in the year 2005 which has been translated in English as Memories Come Alive, in Hindi as Yaden Jee Uthi and in Marathi as Jiboner Jalsaghorey.

Following his release from prison, Marks published a best-selling autobiography, Mr Nice ( Secker and Warburg, 1996 ), which has been translated into several languages.

In 1984 he published what he described as an intentionally traditional autobiography, entitled ' Le miroir qui revient ', translated into English as ' Ghosts in the Mirror ' by Jo Levy ( 1988 ).

I Am My Own Wife ( or I Am My Own Woman ) is also the English title of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf's autobiography, first issued in 1992, translated in 1995.

Cahan also wrote a 5-volume Yiddish-language autobiography, Bleter fun mayn Leben, the first three volumes of which were translated into English as The Education of Abraham Cahan.

Two works of autobiography have also been translated: Destiny's Journey ( trans.

* Two short excerpts from his autobiography ( Riga 1934-1935 ), translated from its Yiddish version ( 1962 – 1963 ), in Dawidowicz, editor, The Golden Tradition.