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Abdelkrim Ghallab

Interview with Abdelkarim Ghallab, Remembering for Tomorrow (publication of the European Cultural Foundation and Escuela de Traductores de Toledo, Annette van Beugen and Gonzalo Fernández Parrilla) about his autobiographical books The Seven Doors (Sab'at abwab), The Book of Formation, An Unjust Old Age (al-Shaykhukha alzalima) and Cairo Reveals its Secrets (al-Qahira tabuhu an asrariha).

Abgehauen

Abgehauen is a 1998 German television documentary directed by Frank Beyer and based on the autobiographical book of the same name by Manfred Krug.

Alina Simone

She is best known for her original songwriting, her album of cover songs by Russian punk poet Yanka Dyagileva, and her collection of autobiographical essays You Must Go And Win.

Aruba: The Tragic Untold Story of Natalee Holloway and Corruption in Paradise

Aruba: The Tragic Untold Story of Natalee Holloway and Corruption in Paradise is an autobiographical true crime book by Dave Holloway about his experiences searching for his missing daughter Natalee Holloway, co-written with R. Stephanie Good and Larry Garrison.

Betty MacDonald

MacDonald also published three other semi-autobiographical books: Anybody Can Do Anything, recounting her life in the Depression trying to find work; The Plague and I, describing her nine-month stay at the Firlands tuberculosis sanitarium; and Onions in the Stew, about her life on Vashon Island with her second husband and daughters during the war years.

Bloody Point Range Lights

Two small brick buildings with the sign for the Silver Dew Winery were described by Pat Conroy in his autobiographical book the Water is Wide.

Blue Highways

Blue Highways is an autobiographical book by William Least Heat-Moon, born William Trogdon.

Bryan Bruce

#The Sir Howard Morrison Story: A 50 minute autobiographical documentary about the life of entertainer Sir Howard Morrison for TVNZ.

Carl Kurlander

Kurlander is best known for his extensive work on American teen sitcoms and has served as producer with Peter Engel on a number of programmes including Saved by the Bell: The New Class, Hang Time, USA High and Malibu, CA and as a screenwriter who co-wrote the semi-autobiographical hit St. Elmo's Fire.

Carolyn Suzanne Sapp

After her reign, Sapp starred as herself in the autobiographical television movie Miss America: Behind the Crown, which depicted the physically abusive relationship between her and pro football player Nuu Faaola, who she dated before her Miss Hawaii tenure.

Chris Staros

Yearbook Stories: 1976-1978 (published in 2007) features two autobiographical tales from Staros's formative years: "The Willful Death of a Stereotype," illustrated by Bo Hampton, and "The Worst Gig I Ever Had," illustrated by Rich Tommaso.

Club Kids

The 1998 documentary film Party Monster: The Shockumentary and the 2003 feature film Party Monster – both directed by Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato – were based upon the memoir Disco Bloodbath by Club Kid James St. James, an autobiographical recount of his life.

Cosmic Trigger III: My Life After Death

Cosmic Trigger III: My Life After Death is the third book in the Cosmic Trigger series, a three-volume autobiographical and philosophical work by Robert Anton Wilson.

Craiglockhart Hydropathic

He later wrote about his experiences at the hospital in his semi-autobiographical novel, 'Sherston's Progress'.

Cromford

In late 2006, Anand Tucker used certain parts of Cromford, including its historic bookshop, for his film And When Did You Last See Your Father?, based on the autobiographical memoir by poet Blake Morrison.

Danish literature

Jane Aamund (born 1936) whose popularity stems above all from her erotically presented autobiographical works which became best sellers in the 1990s.

Finishing the Picture

Finishing the Picture is a thinly-veiled autobiographical examination of the time Miller and his then-wife Marilyn Monroe spent shooting The Misfits (1961).

Frigyes Karinthy

He describes this experience in his autobiographical novel, Journey Round my Skull, (Utazás a koponyám körül), originally published in 1939; a reissue appeared as a NYRB Classic in 2008 with an introduction by neurologist Oliver Sacks.

Goodbye Alice in Wonderland

The album marks a return to her musical roots after 0304, and trying to write an autobiographical album like she did with Pieces of You.

Hyperthymesia

On December 19, 2010, actress Marilu Henner was featured on the US television program 60 Minutes for her superior autobiographical memory ability.

I Never Liked You

The autobiographical book deals with Brown's introversion and difficulty talking to others, especially members of the opposite sex.

Jawbreaker: The attack on bin Laden and al-Qaeda

Jawbreaker: The Attack on Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda: A Personal Account by the CIA's Key Field Commander (2005) is an autobiographical book by CIA agent Gary Berntsen describing the time he spent in Afghanistan at the beginning of the American campaign against the Taliban, al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden after the September 11, 2001 attacks.

Joe Matt

In his autobiographical comic Peepshow, Joe Matt examines his inadequate social skills, his addiction to pornography, his cantankerous relationship with his then-girlfriend Trish, and the lingering effects of his Catholic upbringing.

Johannes Jeep

In Ulysses (Episode 16, "Eumaeus", 663:14-22), Joyce's autobiographical character, Stephen Dedalus, performs Jeep's spirited song "Von der Sirenen Listigkeit" ("Of the Siren's Cunning") for Leopold Bloom, and the two men bond over its misogyny.

John Herivel

Herivel wrote books and articles on Isaac Newton, Joseph Fourier, Christiaan Huygens, and an autobiographical account of his work at Bletchley Park, Herivelismus.

Jonathan Raban

Frequently, Raban’s autobiographical accounts of journeys taken mirror transformations in his own life or the world at large: Old Glory takes place during the buildup to Ronald Reagan’s victory in the 1980 presidential election, Coasting as the Falklands War begins, and Passage to Juneau as the failure of the author’s marriage becomes apparent.

Kjære Margit

: Et festskrift til Nordens folkelesningsdronning; Margit Sandemo 70 år (in English Dear Margit!:The Anniversary Book to the Queen of Readers of the Nordic Countries; Margit Sandemo 70 Years) is a Norwegian autobiographical book by Norwegian-Swedish fantasy writer Margit Sandemo.

Lifelog

They went on to create an autobiographical film about it called Four Eyed Monsters.

Litomyšl

Litomyšl is the birthplace of Bedřich Smetana (1824–1884), composer, August Jilek (1819–1898), physician and oceanographer, Arne Novák, critic and historian of literature, Hubert Gordon Schauer, literary critic, and Karel Píč (1920-1995), Esperanto writer, author of the innovative autobiographical novel "La Litomiŝla Tombejo" (The Litomyšl Cemetery).

Malazan Book of the Fallen

Erikson uses a handful of words from that chapter as an epigraph for a quasi-autobiographical essay in The New York Review of Science Fiction.

Man in the Holocene

It contains some autobiographical elements: Frisch at the time of the writing is about the same age as the protagonist, Mr. Geiser, and Frisch also had a house in the Tessin valley where the story is set.

Margaret Lantis

With 18 autobiographical accounts and biological sketches from Nunivak Island in east Bering Sea, the book reveals the strains and complaints felt by the small community of approximately 200 Inuit people.

Marzia Tedeschi

The Movie is based on the autobiographical Novel "El Khoubz el Hafi" of the Moroccan writer Mohamed Choukri.

Metacafe

Metacafe has also teamed up with notable TV producers like Steven Bochco (Hill Street Blues, L.A. Law) with a series called Cafe Confidential, a 44 webisode series consisting of teens and twenty-somethings sharing semi-autobiographical stories.

Michael Ayrton

Beginning in 1961, Michael Ayrton wrote and created many works associated with the myths of the Minotaur and Daedalus, the legendary inventor and maze builder, including bronze sculpture and the pseudo-autobiographical novel "The Maze Maker" (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1967).

My Memories of Old Beijing

My Memories of Old Beijing (Chengnan Jiushi, 城南舊事) is an autobiographical novel by Lin Haiyin, first published in 1960.

Nick Waplington

His other photographic books include You Love Life, (Trolley Books, 2005) in which the photographer uses pictures taken over a 20 year period to construct an autobiographical narrative.

No Moon Tonight

No Moon Tonight is a World War II autobiographical book by Halifax/Lancaster/Wellington bomber navigator Don Charlwood.

Peter Josyph

As a writer of fiction, his ongoing projects are a series of novels and short stories in which the narrator is French painter Henri Matisse, and the Haiku Quintet, a series of semi-autobiographical haiku novels written entirely in verses of 17 syllables.

Robert Langbaum

He shows that Eliot’s early poetry (“Prufrock,” The Waste Land) is romantic, and that his poetry as a whole, despite his claim of objectivity, is mainly autobiographical.

Something Cloudy, Something Clear

Something Cloudy, Something Clear is an autobiographical play by Tennessee Williams that was originally written in 1941 as a short play titled The Parade, or Approaching the End of a Summer, which was produced posthumously in Provincetown in 2006.

The Facts: A Novelist's Autobiography

The autobiographical section is bookended by two letters, one from Roth to his fictional alter-ego Nathan Zuckerman, the other from Zuckerman himself, telling Roth what he sees as problems with the book.

The Man who Broke into Auschwitz

The Man Who Broke Into Auschwitz is the title of an autobiographical book by Denis Avey, who became a recipient of a British Hero of the Holocaust award for the actions narrated in his book.

The Pea-Pickers

It is a first person, semi-autobiographical narrative about two sisters who travel in the 1920s to Gippsland, and other rural areas, to work as agricultural labourers.

Thomas R. St. George

His best known work is C/O Postmaster, a semi-autobiographical description of his experiences in Australia as a U.S. soldier in 1942.

Tricky Woo

The name of the band is taken from the name of a pampered dog featured in James Herriot's best-selling autobiographical novel All Creatures Great and Small, which tracks the life of a country veterinarian in pre-war England.

Ulick O'Connor

He is also known for the autobiographical "The Ulick O’Connor Diaries 1970-1981: A Cavalier Irishman (2001)", which details his encounters with well-known Irish and international figures, ranging from political (Jack Lynch and Paddy Devlin) to the artistic (Christy Brown and Peter Sellers).

Why Must I Always Explain?

Unlike other songs where Morrison has denied partly or wholly that the material was autobiographical, he has always admitted that this song is his answer to press, critics and fans about the demands of his life as a musician.

William Charles Anderson

Several of his books were autobiographical accounts of the adventures of Anderson, his wife, Dortha, and their children, Ann (Ann Kiessling), Scott (Scott Charles Anderson) and Holly.

Your Time Has Come

The song was inspired by the 1980s song "People Who Died," by The Jim Carroll Band, an emotional salute to the casualties of New York drug culture written by poet and singer Jim Carroll, who also wrote the autobiographical The Basketball Diaries.


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