List of autobiographies

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The following is a list of notable autobiographies:

Contents

By profession

AuthorTitle of bookYear
Aerospace
Alberto Santos-Dumont My Airships: The Story of My Life1904
James R. McConnell Flying for France: With the American Escadrille at Verdun1917
Manfred von Richthofen The Red Fighter Pilot 1917
Billy Bishop Winged Warfare1918
James McCudden Five Years in the Royal Flying Corps1919
René Fonck My Fights (Mes Combats)1919
Richard E. Byrd Skyward1928
Clarence Chamberlin Record Flights1928
Frank Hawks Speed1931
Willy Coppens Days Gone: Memories (Jours Envolés: Mémoires) [lower-alpha 1] 1932
Amelia Earhart The Fun of It 1933
Duncan Grinnell-Milne Wind in the Wires1933
C. W. A. Scott C. W. A. Scott's Book: The Life and Mildenhall-Melbourne Flight of C.W.A. Scott1934
Beirne Lay Jr. I Wanted Wings1937
Frank Glasgow Tinker Some Still Live 1938
Louise Thaden High, Wide and Frightened1938
Igor Sikorsky The Story of the Winged-S1939
Richard Hillary The Last Enemy 1940
Beryl Markham West with the Night 1942
Ted W. Lawson Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo1943
Don S. Gentile One Man Air Force1944
Guy Gibson Enemy Coast Ahead 1946
Arthur Harris Bomber Offensive1947
Bert Stiles Serenade to the Big Bird1947
Henry H. Arnold Global Mission1949
Claire Lee Chennault Way of a Fighter: The Memoirs of Claire Lee Chennault1949
George Kenney General Kenney Reports: A Personal History of the Pacific War1949
Ivan Kozhedub I Serve the Motherland (Служу Родине)1949
Hans-Ulrich Rudel Nevertheless (Trotzdem) [lower-alpha 2] 1949
Dick Grace Visibility Unlimited1950
William Bushnell Stout So Away I Went!1951
Pierre Clostermann The Big Show (Le Grand Cirque)1951
Hanna Reitsch Flying is My Life (Fliegen, Mein Leben)1951
Adolf Galland The First and the Last1953
Ernst Heinkel Stormy Life (Stürmisches Leben)1953
Heinz Knoke I Flew for the Führer1953
Hugh Henry Home Popham Sea Flight: A Fleet Air Arm Pilot's Story1954
Nevil Shute Slide Rule: Autobiography of an Engineer 1954
Bill Bridgeman The Lonely Sky1955
Eino Luukkanen Fighter Over Finland (Hävittäjälentäjänä Kahdessa Sodassa)1956
Johnnie Johnson Wing Leader1956
John Slessor The Central Blue: Recollections and Reflections1956
Basil Embry Mission Completed [lower-alpha 3] 1957
Saburō Sakai Samurai! 1957
Pappy Boyington Baa Baa Black Sheep1958
Robert S. Johnson Thunderbolt!1958
Alan Deere Nine Lives1959
Albert Scott Crossfield Always Another Dawn: The Story of a Rocket Test Pilot1960
Eric Brown Wings on My Sleeve1961
Geoffrey de Havilland Sky Fever: The Autobiography of Sir Geoffrey de Havilland1961
John Braham Night Fighter1961
Nancy Bird Born to Fly1961
Bud Mahurin Honest John1962
Arch Whitehouse The Fledgling: An Autobiography1964
Curtis LeMay Mission with LeMay: My Story1965
Arthur Tedder With Prejudice: The War Memoirs of Marshal of the Royal Air Force, Lord Tedder1966
Eddie Rickenbacker Rickenbacker: An Autobiography1967
Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev The Purpose of Life (Цель жизни)1967
Benjamin Foulois From the Wright Brothers to the Astronauts: The Memoirs of Benjamin D. Foulois1968
George William Goddard Overview: A Lifelong Adventure in Aerial Photography1969
Francis Gary Powers Operation Overflight: The U-2 Spy Pilot Tells His Story for the First Time1970
Raymond Collishaw Air Command: A Fighter Pilot's Story1973
Donald Wilson Wooing Peponi: My Odyssey through Many Years1973
Jan Zumbach Mister Brown [lower-alpha 4] 1973
Arthur Lee No Parachute: A Fighter Pilot in World War I1974
Cecil Arthur Lewis Never Look Back: An Attempt at Autobiography1974
Igor Kaberov Swastika in the Gunsight (В прицеле свастика)1975
Alexander Lippisch A Triangle Flies: The Development of Delta Aircraft Until 1945 (Ein Dreieck Fliegt: Die Entwicklung der Delta-Flugzeuge bis 1945) [lower-alpha 5] 1976
Charles Lamb War in a Stringbag1977
Alan Cobham A Time to Fly1978
Alex Henshaw Sigh for a Merlin: Testing the Spitfire [lower-alpha 6] 1979
Murray Peden A Thousand Shall Fall1979
Jean Batten Alone in the Sky1979
George Gay Sole Survivor1980
Wladek Gnyś First Kill: A Fighter Pilot's Autobiography1981
William R. Dunn Fighter Pilot: The First American Ace of World War II1982
Robert Mason Chickenhawk [lower-alpha 7] 1983
Charles R. Bond Jr. A Flying Tiger's Diary1984
Duke Cunningham Fox Two: The Story of America's First Ace in Vietnam1984
Gerhard Neumann Herman the German: Enemy Alien U.S. Army Master Sergeant1984
Stanley Hooker Not Much of an Engineer1985
Al Mooney The Al Mooney Story: They All Fly Through the Same Air1985
Chuck Yeager Yeager: An Autobiography1985
Roald Dahl Going Solo 1986
Haywood S. Hansell The Strategic Air War Against Germany and Japan: A Memoir1986
Jackie Cochran Jackie Cochran: An Autobiography1987
Alberto Briganti Beyond the Clouds the Serene: Memories of Forty Years of Flight and Adventure (Oltre le Nubi il Sereno: Ricordi di Quarant'anni di Volo e di Avventura)1988
Samuel Hynes Flights of Passage: Recollections of a World War II Aviator1988
Robert Lee Scott Jr. The Day I Owned the Sky [lower-alpha 8] 1988
Fred Weick From the Ground Up1988
John Thomas Blackburn The Jolly Rogers: The Story of Tom Blackburn and Navy Fighting Squadron VF-171989
Takeo Doi Fifty Years Recollections on Aircraft Design (航空機設計50年の回想)1989
Hugh Dundas Flying Start: A Fighter Pilot's War Years1989
Kelly Johnson Kelly: More Than My Share of It All1989
Boone Guyton Whistling Death: The Test Pilot's Story of the F4U Corsair1990
Bud Anderson To Fly and Fight1991
Jimmy Doolittle I Could Never Be So Lucky Again1991
Gabby Gabreski Gabby: A Fighter Pilot's Life1991
Hajo Herrmann Eagle's Wings1991
Brian Shul Sled Driver: Flying the World's Fastest Jet1991
Joe Foss A Proud American: The Autobiography of Joe Foss1992
Tex Johnson Tex Johnston: Jet-Age Test Pilot1992
Harry H. Crosby A Wing and a Prayer: The "Bloody 100th" Bomb Group of the U.S. Eighth Air Force in Action over Europe in World War II1993
Lawrence A. Hyland Call Me Pat: The Autobiography of the Man Howard Hughes Chose to Lead Hughes Aircraft1993
Diana Barnato Walker Spreading My Wings: One of Britain's Top Women Pilots Tells Her Remarkable Story1994
Marion Eugene Carl Pushing the Envelope: The Career of Fighter Ace and Test Pilot Marion Carl1994
Neal Vernon Loving Lovings Love: A Black American's Experiences in Aviation1994
Ben Rich Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed1994
Bob Hoover Forever Flying: Fifty Years of High-flying Adventures, From Barnstorming in Prop Planes to Dogfighting Germans to Testing Supersonic Jets1996
No Kum-Sok A MiG-15 to Freedom: Memoir of the Wartime North Korean Defector Who First Delivered the Secret Fighter Jet to the Americans in 19531996
Charles W. Dryden A-Train: Memoirs of a Tuskegee Airman1997
James V. Hartinger From One Stripe to Four Stars1997
Frank E. Petersen Into the Tiger's Jaw: America's First Black Marine Aviator1998
Paul Tibbets Return of The Enola Gay1998
Jeffrey Quill Spitfire: A Test Pilot's Story1998
Michael J. Novosel Dustoff: The Memoir of an Army Aviator1999
Gene Kranz Failure Is Not an Option: Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond2000
Frederick Libby Horses Don't Fly: A Memoir of World War I2000
Roland Beamont The Years Flew Past: 40 Years at the Leading Edge of Aviation2001
Robert K. Morgan The Man Who Flew the Memphis Belle: Memoir of a WWII Bomber Pilot2001
Peter Masefield Flight Path: The Autobiography of Sir Peter Masefield2002
Donald L. Mallick Smell of Kerosene: A Test Pilot's Odyssey2003
Bernard F. Fisher Beyond the Call of Duty: The Story of an American Hero2004
Clayton Kelly Gross Live Bait: WWII Memories of an Undefeated Fighter Ace2006
Günther Rall My Logbook: Reminiscences, 1938-20062006
Joe Sutter 747: Creating the World's First Jumbo Jet and Other Adventures from a Life in Aviation2006
Jack Broughton Rupert Red Two: A Fighter Pilot's Life from Thunderbolts to Thunderchiefs [lower-alpha 9] 2007
Leland Snow Putting Dreams to Flight2008
Anna Yegorova Red Sky, Black Death: A Soviet Woman Pilot's Memoir of the Eastern Front2009
Ann B. Carl A WASP Among Eagles: A Woman Military Test Pilot in World War II2000 [lower-alpha 10]
Mitsuo Fuchida For That One Day: The Memoirs of Mitsuo Fuchida, the Commander of the Attack on Pearl Harbor2011
Harold Brown Keep Your Airspeed Up: The Story of a Tuskegee Airman2017
Norman Kleiss Never Call Me a Hero: A Legendary American Dive-Bomber Pilot Remembers the Battle of Midway2017
Tammie Jo Shults Nerves of Steel: How I Followed My Dreams, Earned My Wings, and Faced My Greatest Challenge2019
Anthropology
Margaret Mead Blackberry Winter: My Earlier Years1972
Archaeology
Margaret Murray My First Hundred Years with Ammu1963
Architecture
Frank Lloyd Wright Autobiography1943
Art
Salvador Dalí The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí 1942
Claude Monet An Interview1900
Gwen Raverat Period Piece 1952
Business
Andrew Carnegie Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie: with Illustrations1920
Richard DeVos Simply Rich: Life and Lessons from the Cofounder of Amway: A Memoir2014
Andrew S. Grove A Memoir: Swimming Across2001
Comedy
Terry-Thomas Filling the Gap1959
Harpo Marx Harpo Speaks1961
Charlie Chaplin My Autobiography1964
Moe Howard Moe Howard and the Three Stooges , AKA I Came, I Stooged, I Conquered (published posthumously)1974
Sid Caesar Where Have I Been?1982
Kenny Everett The Custard Stops at Hatfield1982
Bill Cosby Fatherhood1986
J. B. Boothroyd A Shoulder To Laugh On1987
Mel Blanc That's NOT All, Folks1988
Gilda Radner It's Always Something1989
Richard Pryor Pryor Convictions 1995
Betty White BW: In Person and Here We Go Again: My Life In Televisionboth 1995
Damon Wayans Bootleg1996
Stephen Fry Moab Is My Washpot 1997
Jenny McCarthy Jen-X: My Open Book1997
Chris Rock Rock This1997
Sandra Bernhard Confessions of a Pretty Lady1998
Danny Bonaduce Random Acts of Badness2001
Fran Drescher Cancer Schmancer2002
Alan Thicke How Men Have Babies: a New Father's Survival Guide2003
Rodney Dangerfield It's Not Easy Being Me: a Lifetime of No Respect But Plenty of Sex and Drugs (published posthumously)2004
Tom Green Hollywood Causes Cancer2004
Rik Mayall Bigger Than Hitler & Better Than Christ2005
Tommy Chong The I Chong: Meditations From the Joint2006
Alan Thicke How to Raise Kids Who Won't Hate You2006
Steve Martin Born Standing Up 2007
Denis Leary Why We Suck2008
Stephen Fry Ernie: The Autobiography2009
Frankie Boyle My Shit Life So Far 2009
Craig Ferguson American on Purpose 2009
Todd Bridges Killing Willis, AKA Thatswhatimtalkinbout2010
Gilbert Gottfried Rubber Balls & Liquor2011
Michael Moore Here Comes Trouble2011
Kevin Smith Tough Sh*t: Life Advice from a Fat, Lazy Slob Who Still Made Good2012
Jimmie Walker Dyn-o-mite!2012
Andrew Dice Clay The Filthy Truth2014
Andrew Sachs I Know Nothing (But Here's What I've Learned)2014
John Cleese So, Anyway...2014
Bob Saget Dirty Daddy2014
David Jason Only Fools and Stories2017
Cheech Marin Cheech Is Not My Real Name...But Don't Call Me Chong!2017
Eric Idle Always Look On the Bright Side Of Life2018
Mel Brooks All About Me: My Remarkable Life In Show Business2021
Cassandra Peterson Yours Cruelly, Elvira 2021
Dance
Isadora Duncan My Life1927
Suzanne Farrell Holding Onto the Air1990
Derek Hough Taking the Lead: Lessons from a Life in Motion2014
Russ Tamblyn Dancing On the Edge: A Journey of Living, Loving, and Tumbling Through Hollywood2024
Drama
Vincent Price I Like What I Know1959
Fred Astaire Steps in Time1960
Ken Murray Life On a Pogo Stick1960
George Sanders Memoirs of a Professional Cad 1960
Sir Cedric Hardwicke A Victorian in Orbit1961
Dick Gregory Nigger1964
Brian Aherne A Proper Job1969
Veronica Lake VL: the Autobiography1970
Orson Bean Me and the Orgone 1971
David Niven The Moon's a Balloon 1972
Kim Hunter Loose in the Kitchen1975
Robert Mitchum It Sure Beats Working1975
David Niven Bring On The Empty Horses1975
Joyce Grenfell Joyce Grenfell Requests the Pleasure1976
Christopher Lee Tall, Dark & Gruesome1977
Peter Ustinov Dear Me 1977
Gregory Peck An Actor's Life1978
Ralph Bellamy When the Smoke Hit the Fan1979
Dale Evans & Roy Rogers Happy Trails1979
John Gielgud An Actor and His Time1979
Bette Midler A View From a Broad1980
Ricardo Montalbán Reflections: a Life In Two Worlds1980
Robert Stack Straight Shooting1980
Henry Fonda Fonda: My Life, AKA How Did I Get to Golden Pond?1981
Mercedes McCambridge The Quality of Mercy1981
James Mason Before I Forget1982
Satyajit Ray Jakhan Choto Chilam 1982
Dirk Bogarde An Orderly Man1983
James Fox Comeback: an Actor's Direction1983
Akira Kurosawa Something Like an Autobiography 1983
Laurence Olivier Confessions of an Actor 1983
Roman Polanski Roman by Polanski1984
Mr. T The Man With the Gold1984
Brooke Shields On Your Own1985
Alec Guinness Blessings in Disguise1986
Laurence Olivier On Acting 1986
Franco Zeffirelli Zeffirelli: an Autobiography1986
Ingmar Bergman The Magic Lantern1987
Patty Duke Call Me Anna1987
Arthur Miller Timebends: A Life1987
Mamie Van Doren Playing the Field: Sex, Stardom, Love, and Life in Hollywood1987
Orson Bean Too Much Is Not Enough1988
Chuck Norris The Secret of Inner Strength: My Story1988
Terence Stamp Coming Attractions1988
Drew Barrymore Little Girl Lost1989
Charles Grodin It Would Be So Nice If You Weren't Here: My Journey Through Show Business1989
Patrick Macnee Blind in One Ear1989
Wayne Newton Once Before I Go1989
Tony Randall Which Reminds Me1989
Cornel Wilde Wildelife (published posthumously)1989
Macdonald Carey The Days of My Life1991
Michael York Accidentally on Purpose1991
Katharine Hepburn Me: Stories of My Life1991
Patty Duke A Brilliant Madness1992
Peter O'Toole Loitering with Intent: The Child1992
Barry Williams Growing Up Brady OR I Was a Teenage Greg1992
Micky Dolenz I'm a Believer1993
Richard Fleischer Just Tell Me When to Cry1993
James Earl Jones Voices and Silences1993
Jeremy Lloyd Listen Very Carefully, I Shall Say This Only Once1993
Ann-Margret My Story1994
David Cassidy C'mon, Get Happy: Fear and Loathing On the Partridge Family Bus1994
Buddy Ebsen The Other Side of Oz1994
Sheldon Leonard And the Show Goes On1994
Burgess Meredith So Far, So Good1994
Nichelle Nichols Beyond Uhura1994
Burt Reynolds My Life, AKA Smokey and I1994
George Takei To the Stars1994
Adam West Back To the Batcave1994
Loni Anderson My Life in High Heels1995
Marlon Brando Songs My Mother Taught Me1995
Kelsey Grammer So Far...1995
Charlton Heston In the Arena1995
Garry Marshall Wake Me When It's Funny1995
Mary Tyler Moore After All: How I Made It Despite Everything1995
Leonard Nimoy I Am Spock 1995
Anthony Quinn One Man Tango1995
Maureen Stapleton One Hell of a Life1995
Burt Ward Boy Wonder: My Life In Tights1995
Claire Bloom Leaving a Doll's House 1996
James Doohan Beam Me Up, Scotty1996
Fran Drescher Enter Whining1996
Alec Guinness My Name Escapes Me1996
Clayton Moore I Was That Masked Man1996
Leslie Nielsen Bad Golf My Way1996
Christopher Reeve Still Me 1996
Aaron Spelling A Prime-Time Life1996
Cathy Lee Crosby Let the Magic Begin1997
Yaphet Kotto The Royalty: A Spiritual Awakening1997
Jerry Mathers ...And Myself as the Beaver1997
Frank Muir A Kentish Lad1997
Kenneth Branagh Beginning1998
Jackie Chan My Life in Action 1998
Peter Coyote Sleeping Where I Fall1998
Peter Fonda Don't Tell Dad1998
Walter Koenig Warped Factors: A Neurotic's Guide to the Universe1998
Patrick Macnee The Avengers and Me1998
Carroll O'Connor I Think I'm Outta Here1998
Grace Lee Whitney The Longest Trek: My Tour of the Galaxy1998
Ed Wood, Jr. Hollywood Rat Race (published posthumously)1998
Albert R. Broccoli When the Snow Melts (released posthumously)1999
Alec Guinness A Positively Final Appearance1999
Gloria Stuart I Just Keep Hoping1999
Esther Williams Million-Dollar Mermaid1999
Paul Daniels Under No Illusion2000
Michael York How a Shakespearean Prepares2000
Linda Blair Going Vegan2001
Larry Hagman Hello Darlin': Tall – and Absolutely True – Tales From My Life2001
Anne Heche Call Me Crazy2001
Sidney Poitier The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography 2001
Lisa Whelchel Life Lessons From Heavenly Father, AKA I've Taken the Good, I've Taken the Bad...2001
Michael York Dispatches From Armageddon2001
Michael J. Fox Lucky Man2002
Richard Kiel Making It Big In the Movies2002
Richard Chamberlain Shattered Love2003
Tracey Gold Room to Grow: an Appetite for Life2003
Traci Lords Underneath It All 2003
Caroll Spinney Lessons From a Life in Feathers2003
Gregory Walcott Hollywood Adventures2003
Sean Astin There and Back Again: an Actor's Tale2004
Ben Gazzara In the Moment2004
Tatum O'Neal A Paper Life2004
Alison Sweeney All the Days of My Life (So Far), AKA Sami-I-Am2004
Wil Wheaton Dancing Barefoot 2004
Dick York The Seesaw Girl & Me (published posthumously)2004
Alan Alda Never Have Your Dog Stuffed And Other Things I've Learned2005
Dirk Benedict Confessions of a Kamikaze Cowboy2005
Jane Fonda My Life So Far, AKA Working It Out2005
Lauren Bacall By Myself and Then Some2005
Tab Hunter TH Confidential: the Making of a Movie Star2005
Brooke Shields Down Came the Rain: My Journey Through Postpartum Depression2005
Eli Wallach The Good, the Bad, and Me2005
Michael York Are My Blinkers Showing? Film-making & Other Adventures In the New Russia2005
Nena "Do You Want to Go With Me?" (Willst du mit mir gehn?)2005
Adrienne Barbeau There Are Worse Things I Could Do2006
Ellen Burstyn Lessons In Becoming Myself2006
Carmen Electra How to Be Sexy2006
Peter Falk Just One More Thing2006
David Hasselhoff Don't Hassel the Hoff2006
Denzel Washington A Hand to Guide Me2006
Willie Aames Grace Is Enough2007
David Cassidy Could It Be Forever?2007
Bruce Dern Things I've Said, But Probably Shouldn't Have: an Unrepentant Memoir2007
Kirk Douglas Let's Face It2007
Rutger Hauer All Those Moments2007
Norman Jewison This Terrible Business Has Been Good To Me2007
Gabe Kaplan Kotter's Back2007
Dave Madden Reuben on Wry2007
Alan Young Mr. Ed & Me & More2007
Ed Begley, Jr. Living Like Ed: A Guide to the Eco-Friendly Life2008
Kirk Cameron Still Growing2008
Sean Connery Being a Scot2008
Tony Curtis American Prince2008
Mark Goddard To Space and Back2008
Gary David Goldberg Sit, Ubu, Sit: How I Went from Brooklyn to Hollywood With the Same Woman, the Same Dog, and a Lot Less Hair2008
George Hamilton Don't Mind If I Do2008
Chelsea Handler Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea 2008
Maureen McCormick Here's the Story: Surviving Marcia Brady and Finding My True Voice2008
Tori Spelling Stori Telling 2008
Robert Wagner Pieces of My Heart2008
Julie Walters That's Another Story2008
Ernest Borgnine Ernie: the Autobiography2009
Dustin Diamond Behind the Bell2009
Robert Englund Hollywood Monster2009
Michael J. Fox Always Looking Up2009
Alyssa Milano Safe at Home2009
Roger Moore My Word Is My Bond2009
Marie Osmond I May As Well Laugh About It2009
Mackenzie Phillips High on Arrival2009
Patrick Swayze The Time of My Life2009
Dick Van Patten Eighty Is Not Enough: One Actor's Journey Through the American Entertainment Industry2009
Melissa Sue Anderson The Way I See It: a Look Back at My Life2010
Peter Bowles Ask Me If I'm Happy2010
Michael Caine What's It All About; The Elephant to Hollywood2010
Judi Dench And, Furthermore...2010
Shannen Doherty Badass: A Hard-Earned Guide to Leading Your Life with Style and (the Right) Attitude2010
Michael J. Fox A Funny Thing Happened On the Way To the Future2010
Louis Gossett Jr. An Actor and a Gentleman2010
Harry Hamlin Full Frontal Nudity2010
Molly Ringwald Getting the Pretty Back2010
Tori Spelling Uncharted Territori2010
Jodie Sweetin UnSweetined2010
Jerry Weintraub When I Stop Talking, You'll Know I'm Dead2010
Meredith Baxter Untied2011
Julie Dawn Cole I Want It NOW!2011
Barbara Eden Jeannie Out of the Bottle2011
James Garner The Garner Files2011
Florence Henderson Life Is Not a Stage: From Broadway Baby to a Lovely Lady and Beyond, with Joel Brokaw2011
Rob Lowe Stories I Only Tell My Friends2011
Julie Newmar The Conscious Catwoman Explains Life On Earth2011
David Prowse Straight From the Force's Mouth2011
Heather Donahue Growgirl: How My Life After The Blair Witch Project Went to Pot2012
Frank Langella Dropped Names2012
Julie London Once I Was a Debutante (published posthumously)2012
R. Lee Ermey Gunny's Rules: How To Get Squared Away Like a Marine2013
Corey Feldman Corey-ography2013
Gunnar Hansen Chainsaw Confidential: Making the World's Most Notorious Horror Movie2013
Melissa Joan Hart Melissa Explains It All: Tales from My Abnormally Normal Life2013
Shirley Jones SJ: a Memoir, AKA I Don't Jest, but Please Call Me Shirley!2013
George Lazenby This Is What Happened To the Other Fellow2013
David Suchet Poirot and Me2013
Bill Allen My RAD Career2014
Cary Elwes As You Wish2014
Danielle Fishel Normally, This Would Be Cause For Concern: Tales of Calamity and Unrelenting Awkwardness2014
Jennie Garth Deep Thoughts From a Hollywood Blonde2014
Anjelica Huston Watch Me2014
Ron Perlman Easy Street, the Hard Way2014
Brooke Shields There Was a Little Girl: The Real Story of My Mother and Me2014
Martin Short I Must Say: My Life As a Humble Legend2014
Kathy Coleman Lost Girl2015
Mariel Hemingway Out Came the Sun2015
Charlotte Rae The Facts Of My Life, AKA I Haven't Changed; Only My Strokes Are Diff'rent2015
Burt Reynolds ...But Enough About Me2015
Peter Davison Is There Life Outside the Box?2016
Peter Engel I Was Saved by the Bell: Stories of Life, Love, and Dreams that Indeed Came True2016
Joel Grey Master of Ceremonies2016
Jack Wild It's a Dodger's Life, AKA Reviewing My Situation (published posthumously)2016
Kathy Coleman Run, Holly! Run!2017
William Daniels There I Go Again2017
Anna Faris Unqualified2017
Gary Busey Busey-isms2018
Bernard Cribbins Bernard Who: 75 Years of Doing Absolutely Everything2018
Olivia Hussey The Girl On the Balcony2018
Patrick Kilpatrick Dying For a Living: Sins and Confessions of a Hollywood Villain-Turned-Libertine Patriot2018
Nick Nolte Rebel: My Life Outside the Lines2018
Leif Garrett Idol Truth2019
Matthias HuesShirtless in Hollywood2019
Val Kilmer I'm Your Huckleberry2020
Gabriel Byrne Walking With Ghosts2021
Hayley Mills Forever Young2021
Will Smith Will, AKA Where There's a Way2021
Jamie Lynn Spears Things I Should Have Said2021
Sharon Stone The Beauty of Living Twice2021
Mena Suvari The Great Peace2021
Don Bluth Somewhere Out There: My Animated Life2022
Geena Davis Dying of Politeness2022
Ralph Macchio Waxing On2022
Matthew Perry Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing2022
Kelly Ripa Live Wire2022
Bill Mumy The Full Mumy, AKA It's Been a Real Good Life2023
John Stamos If You Would Have Told Me...2023
Patrick Stewart Making It So2023
Tom Selleck You Never Know2024
Billy Dee Williams What Have We Here?2024
Edward Zwick Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood2024
History
Edward Gibbon Memoirs of My Life and Writings 17xx
Henry Adams The Education of Henry Adams 1907
Journalism
Mehmood Hashmi Kashmir Udaas Hai 1950
Lowell Thomas Good Evening, Everybody1976
Jessica Savitch Anchorwoman1982
Peter Sissons When One Door Closes2011
John Craven Headlines and Hedgerows2019
Law
Helene E. Schwartz Lawyering 1976
Literature
Libanius Oration0374
Sei Shōnagon The Pillow Book 1002
Kamo No Chomei Hōjōki 1212
Leonor López de Córdoba Memorias (López de Córdoba)1400
Margery Kempe The Book of Margery Kempe 1436
Girolamo Cardano The Book of My Life1576
Michel de Montaigne Of the Education of Children1580
Abraham Cowley Of Myself1668
Colley Cibber An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Written by Himself1740
Voltaire Mémoires pour servir à la vie de M. de Voltaire, écrits par lui-même1759
Jean-Jacques Rousseau Confessions 1770
Benjamin Franklin The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin 1791
Walter Scott "Memoirs"1808–1826
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Dichtung und Wahrheit 1811-1833
Samuel Taylor Coleridge Biographia Literaria 1817
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Italian Journey 1817
Thomas De Quincey Confessions of an English Opium-Eater 1821
James Hogg Altrive Tales: Featuring a Memoir of the Author's Life1832
Charles Dickens Autobiographical Fragment1847
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The Autobiography Of Goethe: Truth And Poetry, From My Own Life1848
William Wordsworth The Prelude 1850
Leo Tolstoy Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth1856
Alexandre Dumas Mes Mémoires1856
John Neal Wandering Recollections of a Somewhat Busy Life: An Autobiography1869
Sara Coleridge Memoir1874
Thomas Carlyle Reminiscences 1881
Ambrose Bierce What I Saw of Shiloh1881
Anthony Trollope An Autobiography1883
Walt Whitman Specimen Days1883
Leo Tolstoy A Confession 1884
John Ruskin Praeterita: Outlines of Scenes and Thoughts Perhaps Worthy of Memory in My Past Life1885
Oscar Wilde De Profundis 1897
Margaret Oliphant The Autobiography of Margaret Oliphant1899
George Bernard Shaw Shaw: an Autobiography, 1898–1950: The Playwright Years1907
Victor Hugo Victor Hugo's Intellectual Autobiography1907
Henry James A Small Boy and Others 1913
Maxim Gorky My Childhood1913
William Butler Yeats Reveries Over Childhood and Youth1916
Mark Twain Autobiography of Mark Twain 1910
Henry James Notes of a Son and Brother 1914
Mary Augusta Ward A Writer's Recollections1918
Robert Graves Good-Bye to All That 1929
Lincoln Steffens Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens1931
Walter Benjamin Unpacking My Library1931
Vera Brittain Testament of Youth 1933
Gertrude Stein The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas 1933
H. G. Wells Experiment in Autobiography 1934
William Butler Yeats Autobiography1936
G. K. Chesterton The Autobiography of G.K. Chesterton1936
Claude McKay A Long Way From Home1937
Noël Coward Present Indicative1937
Virginia Woolf Moments of Being 1938
William Butler Yeats Autobiographies of William Butler Yeats1938
A. A. Milne It's Too Late Now1939
John Buchan Memory Hold the Door 1940
F. Scott Fitzgerald A Short Autobiography1940
Zora Neale Hurston Dust Tracks on a Road 1942
Stefan Zweig The World of Yesterday 1942
Dylan Thomas Holiday Memory1942
Richard Wright Black Boy 1945
George Orwell Such, Such Were the Joys...1947
Nirad C. Chaudhuri The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian 1951
Christy Brown My Left Foot 1954
Elie Wiesel Night 1955
Mary McCarthy Memories of a Catholic Girlhood 1957
Mary McCarthy How I Grew1987
P. G. Wodehouse Over Seventy 1957
Dick Francis The Sport of Queens1957
Simone de Beauvoir The Prime of Life1960
John Betjeman Summoned by Bells 1960
Laurie Lee Cider with Rosie 1960
Evelyn Waugh A Little Learning 1966
Vladimir Nabokov Speak, Memory 1966
P. J. Kavanagh The Perfect Stranger 1966
C. S. Lewis Surprised by Joy 1966
Rosamond Lehmann The Swan in the Evening: Fragments of an Inner Life1967
Edward Abbey Desert Solitaire 1968
J. R. Ackerley My Father and Myself1968
Czesław Miłosz Native Realm: A Search for Self-Definition1968
Laurie Lee As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning1969
Maya Angelou I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969
Anaïs Nin The Diary of Anaïs Nin 1976
Nadezhda Mandelstam Hope Against Hope1970
Graham Greene A Sort of Life 1971
Wole Soyinka The Man Died: Prison Notes1971
Mario Puzo The Godfather Papers & Other Confessions1972
Joyce Maynard Looking Back: A Chronicle of Growing Up Old in the Sixties1973
James Baldwin The Devil Finds Work 1976
Pablo Neruda Memoirs (Confieso que he vivido: Memorias)1977
Agatha Christie Agatha Christie: An Autobiography 1977
Wole Soyinka Aké: The Years of Childhood 1981
John Mortimer Clinging to the Wreckage: A Part of Life1982
Michael Ondaatje Running in the Family 1982
Janet Frame To the Is-land1982
Janet Frame An Angel at My Table and The Envoy From Mirror City1984
Eudora Welty One Writer's Beginnings 1983
Roald Dahl Boy: Tales of Childhood 1984
Roald Dahl Going Solo 1986
Anthony Burgess Little Wilson and Big God 1986
Annie Dillard An American Childhood1987
Anthony Burgess You've Had Your Time 1990
Kurt Vonnegut Fates Worse Than Death 1991
James A. Michener The World Is My Home: A Memoir 1992
Nina Berberova The Italics are Mine 1993
Doris Lessing Under My Skin: Volume One of My Autobiography, to 1949 1994
Alan Sillitoe Life Without Armour1995
Gore Vidal Palimpsest: A Memoir1995
J. M. Coetzee Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life 1997
Doris Lessing Walking in the Shade: Volume Two of My Autobiography, 1949 to 19621997
René Galand War Hentoù an Tremened2002
Amos Oz A Tale of Love and Darkness 2002
Maya Angelou The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou2002
Orhan Pamuk Istanbul: Memories and the City 2003
Gay Talese A Writer's Life 2006
Roald Dahl More About Boy (published posthumously)2008
Jacqueline Wilson Jacky Daydream & My Secret Diary2008
Andrea Ashworth Once in a House on Fire2011
Paul Kipchumba Turning Point in My Life2016
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G. H. Hardy A Mathematician's Apology 1940
Norbert Wiener I Am a Mathematician1964
Bertrand Russell Autobiography1967
Freeman Dyson Disturbing the Universe1979
Paul Halmos I Want to be a Mathematician: An Automathography1985
Stanislaw Ulam Adventures of a Mathematician1991
André Weil The Apprenticeship of a Mathematician1992
Gian-Carlo Rota Indiscrete Thoughts1998
Vladimir Arnold Yesterday and Long Ago2006
Neal Koblitz Random Curves: Journeys of a Mathematician2007
Goro Shimura The Map of My Life2008
Edward Frenkel Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality2014
Michael Harris Mathematics without Apologies: Portrait of a Problematic Vocation2015
Cédric Villani Birth of a Theorem: A Mathematical Adventure2015
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Sydney Smith Mostly Murder 1959
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Manfred von Richthofen The Red Baron (Der rote Kampfflieger)1917
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Elsa Reger Mein Leben mit und für Max Reger (My life with and for Max Reger)1930
Billie Holiday Lady Sings the Blues 1956
Pat Boone A New Song1970
Pablo Casals Joys and Sorrows: Reflections1970
Charles Mingus Beneath the Underdog 1971
Paul Bowles Without Stopping1972
Tom Sullivan If You Could See What I Hear1975
Tom Sullivan Adventures In Darkness1976
Liberace The Things I Love1977
Ray Charles Brother Ray1978
Pinky Tomlin The Object of My Affection1981
Dizzy Gillespie To Be or Not to Bop 1982
Lennon Sisters Same Song, Separate Voices1985
Davy Jones They Made a Monkee Out Of Me, AKA Do I Tell It Like I'm Joking?1986
Tina Turner I, Tina 1986
Michael Jackson Moonwalk 1988
Frank Zappa The Real FZ Book1988
Debbie Gibson Between the Lines1989
Sonny Bono And the Beat Goes On1991
La Toya Jackson La Toya: Growing Up in the Jackson Family 1991
Vanilla Ice Ice By Ice1991
Naomi Judd Love Can Build a Bridge1993
Roy Clark My Life – In Spite of Myself1994
Ice-T The Ice Opinion1994
Dolly Parton My Life and Other Unfinished Business1994
Boy George Taking It Like a Man1995
Luciano Pavarotti My World1995
Wolfman Jack Have Mercy!1995
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Chuck D Fight the Power1997
John Denver Take Me Home1997
LL Cool J I Make My Own Rules1997
Jimmy Buffett A Pirate Looks At 501998
Marilyn Manson The Long Hard Road Out of Hell 1998
Ray Manzarek Light My Fire: Life With the Doors1998
Yehudi Menuhin Unfinished Journey: Twenty Years Later1999
Donny Osmond Life Is Just What You Make It1999
Meat Loaf To Hell and Back 2000
Britney Spears Heart to Heart2000
Gene Simmons KISS and Makeup2002
Carnie Wilson I'm Still Hungry2003
Sting Broken Music2003
Jimmy Dean Thirty Years of Sausage & Fifty Years of Ham2004
Bob Dylan Chronicles: Volume One 2004
Merle Haggard My House of Memories2004
Anthony Kiedis Scar Tissue2004
Nena "Do You Want to Go With Me?" (Willst du mit mir gehn?)2005
Bobby "Boris" Pickett Monster Mash: Half-Dead in Hollywood2005
Robie Lester Lingerie For Hookers In the Snow2006
John Reed Nothing Whatever to Grumble At: His Story, as told to Cynthia Morey2006
Alice Cooper Golf Monster: A Rock 'n' Roller's 12 Steps to Becoming a Golf Addict2007
Mike Oldfield Changeling 2007
Horace Silver Let's Get to the Nitty Gritty2007
Slash It Seems Excessive...But That Doesn't Mean it Didn't Happen2007
Miley Cyrus Miles To Go2008
Eminem The Way I Am2008
Westlife Our Story 2008
Carnie Wilson Gut Feelings2008
Belinda Carlisle Lips Unsealed2010
Keith Richards Life 2010
Rick Springfield Late, Late at Night2010
Alice Bag Violence Girl2011
Ace Frehley No Regrets2011
Shania Twain From This Moment On2011
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Larry Butler Just For the Record2012
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Paul Stanley Face the Music: A Life Exposed2014
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Charles Darwin The Recollections of the Development of My Mind and Character1876
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John Stuart Mill Autobiography1874
Paramahansa Yogananda Autobiography of a Yogi 1955
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Richard Feynman Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! 1985
Luis Alvarez Alvarez: Adventures of a Physicist1987
Emilio Segrè A Mind Always in Motion1993
Fay Ajzenberg-Selove A Matter of Choices: Memoirs of a Female Physicist1994
Alvin M. Weinberg The First Nuclear Era: The Life and Times of a Technological Fixer1994
John Wheeler Geons, Black Holes, and Quantum Foam: A Life in Physics1998
Maurice Wilkins Maurice Wilkins: The Third Man of the Double Helix2003
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Manuel Belgrano Autobiography of Manuel Belgrano 1814
Frederick Douglass Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave 1845
Frederick Douglass My Bondage and My Freedom 1855
Joaquim Nabuco Minha formação 1900
Booker T. Washington Up from Slavery 1901
Theodore Roosevelt Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography1913
Stephen A. Douglas Autobiography of Stephen A. Douglas1913
Emmeline Pankhurst My Own Story1914
Mary Harris Jones Autobiography of Mother Jones1925
Adolf Hitler Mein Kampf 1925
Benito Mussolini My Autobiography: With the Political and Social Doctrine of Fascism 1928
Calvin Coolidge The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge 1929
Winston Churchill My Early Life 1930
Jawaharlal Nehru An Autobiography 1936
Manny Shinwell Conflict Without Malice1955
Winston Churchill Memoirs of the Second World War1959
Malcolm X The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965
Golda Meir My Life 1973
Manny Shinwell I've Lived Through It All1973
Manny Shinwell Lead With the Left: My First Ninety-Six Years1981
Roy Hattersley A Yorkshire Boyhood1983
Ronald Reagan An American Life 1990
Margaret Thatcher The Downing Street Years 1993
Dan Quayle Standing Firm1994
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Barack Obama Dreams from My Father 1995
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Jerry Kramer Instant Replay1968
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Bill Russell Second Wind: The Memoirs of an Opinionated Man1979
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Howard Cosell I Never Played the Game1985
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Albert Schweitzer Out of My Life and Thought1933
Bob Erler They Called Me the Catch Me Killer 1982
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Edith Stein Life in a Jewish Family1986
Pope John Paul II Gift and Mystery1996
Robert H. Schuller My Journey: From an Iowa Farm to a Cathedral of Dreams2001
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Teresa of Ávila Life of St. Teresa of Jesus1567
Benvenuto Cellini The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini1570
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Jahangir Tuzuk-i-Jahangiri 1610
John Bunyan Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners 1666
Giambattista Vico The Autobiography of Giambattista Vico1741
Charlotte Charke A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Charlotte Charke (Youngest Daughter of Colley Cibber, Esq;)1755
Elizabeth Ashbridge Some Account of the Fore Part of the Life of Elizabeth Ashbridge1755
Jonathan Edwards Personal Narrative1768
Olaudah Equiano The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano 1789
Thomas Jefferson Autobiography1790
Mary Robinson Memoirs of the Late Mrs. Robinson, Written by Herself1801
Shen Fu Six Records of a Floating Life 1808
William Cowper Memoir of the Early Life of William Cowper, Esq., Written by Himself1816
Harriette Wilson Memoirs of Harriette Wilson1825
Giacomo Casanova Histoire de ma vie 1826
Cornelio Saavedra Memoria autógrafa 1829
Richard Henry Dana Jr. Two Years Before the Mast 1840
Alphonse de Lamartine Les Confidences1849
François-René de Chateaubriand Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe 1849
George Sand Story of My Life1854
P. T. Barnum The Life of P.T. Barnum, Written by Himself1855
Kit Carson Memoirs1856
Harriet Jacobs Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl 1861
John Henry Newman Apologia Pro Vita Sua 1864
Harriet Martineau Harriet Martineau's Autobiography1887
Thomas Henry Huxley Autobiography1890
Stendhal The Life of Henry Brulard 1890
Stendhal Memoirs of an Egotist 1892
Thérèse of Lisieux The Story of a Soul 1897
Buffalo Bill The Life and Adventures of Buffalo Bill1879
Helen Keller The Story of My Life 1903
Geronimo Geronimo's Story of His Life1906
Edmund Gosse Father and Son 1907
Annie Besant An Autobiography1908
James Weldon Johnson The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man 1912
John Muir The Story of My Boyhood and Youth1913
Bertrand Russell The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell (Vol. 1)1914
Nikola Tesla My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla 1919
Zitkala-Sa Impressions of an Indian Childhood1921
Constantin Stanislavski My Life in Art 1924
Mahatma Gandhi The Story of My Experiments with Truth 1927
Francis Yeats-Brown The Lives of a Bengal Lancer 1930
Black Elk Black Elk Speaks 1931
Beryl Markham West with the Night 1942
Bertrand Russell The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell (Vol. 2)1944
Albert Einstein Autobiographical Notes1945
Primo Levi If This Is a Man 1947
Anne Frank The Diary of a Young Girl 1947
Thomas Merton The Seven Storey Mountain 1948
William Carlos Williams The Autobiography of William Carlos Williams1948
H. V. Kaltenborn Fifty Fabulous Years1950
A. J. Cronin Adventures in Two Worlds 1952
Dorothy Day The Long Loneliness 1952
Whittaker Chambers Witness1952
Bing Crosby Call Me Lucky1953
Gerald Durrell My Family and Other Animals 1956
Jessica Mitford Hons and Rebels 1960
Chet Huntley The Generous Years1968
Florida Scott-Maxwell The Measure of My Days1968
Quentin Crisp The Naked Civil Servant 1968
Bertrand Russell The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell (Vol. 3)1969
Albert Speer Inside the Third Reich 1970
Marguerite de Angeli Butter at the Old Price 1971
Michael Collins Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journeys 1974
Diana Mitford A Life of Contrasts 1977
Sheldon Vanauken A Severe Mercy 1977
Albert Facey A Fortunate Life 1981
Richard Rodriguez Hunger of Memory 1982
Joseph D. Pistone Donnie Brasco: My Undercover Life in the Mafia 1988
Jamaica Kincaid A Small Place 1988
Janet Frame An Autobiography1989
Eva Hoffman Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language1989
William Styron Darkness Visible 1990
Laurie Lee A Moment of War 1991
Brian Keenan An Evil Calling1991
Dalai Lama Freedom in Exile 1991
M. F. K. Fisher Long Ago in France: The Years in Dijon1991
Reinaldo Arenas Before Night Falls 1992
M. F. K. Fisher To Begin Again: Stories and Memoirs 1908-19291992
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Mario Vargas Llosa A Fish in the Water 1993
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M. F. K. Fisher Stay Me, Oh Comfort Me: Journals and Stories 1933-19411993
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Footnotes

  1. Published in English as Days on the Wing in 1934 and Flying In Flanders in 1971.
  2. This would later be re-edited and published in English as Stuka Pilot.
  3. A previous book, Wingless Victory (alternately known as Alone He Went), was published in 1950. However, it was it was "written by an R.A.F. colleague of Embry's, and thus [does not have] the personal touch of autobiography" according to a review. [1]
  4. Published in English as On Wings of War: My Life as a Pilot Adventurer in 1975.
  5. Published in English as The Delta Wing: History and Development in 1981.
  6. The author published two additional books: The Flight of the Mew Gull in 1980 and Wings Across the Great Divide: Postwar Flying in Africa in the 1940s in 2004. They cover his prewar and postwar life, respectively.
  7. The author published an additional book: Chickenhawk: Back in the World: Life After Vietnam in 1993.
  8. An earlier memoir was published as God is My Co-Pilot.
  9. The author wrote two previous books Thud Ridge in 1968 and Going Downtown: The War Against Hanoi and Washington in 1988.
  10. It is not clear when this book was first published. An edition was published by the Smithsonian Institution in 2010. [2] However, her 2008 obituary mentions the work by name. [3] A WorldCat entry with limited details mentions an edition published in 2000. [4] This date has been used for the entry.

Notes

  1. "Books: Flyer's Flight". Time. 27 August 1951. Retrieved 28 January 2024.
  2. "A Wasp Among Eagles: A Wasp Among Eagles [sic]". WorldCat. Retrieved 29 January 2024.
  3. Calos, Katherine (22 March 2008). "Ann G.B. Carl, First U.S. Woman to Fly Jet, Dies". Richmond Times-Dispatch. Archived from the original on 19 March 2021. Retrieved 29 January 2024.
  4. "A Wasp Among Eagles: A Woman Military Test Pilot in World War II". WorldCat. Retrieved 29 January 2024.