When, in 2005, the self-proclaimed Godfather of Steroids, Jose Canseco, published a memoir, naming old teammates and opponents who had used, he was briefly lionized for his bravery and honesty.
It is not the only reference to the author's single-mindedness in this memoir named after Raymond Carver's "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love .Mr Murakami's slim new work recounts his two decades of habitual long-distance running, and its effect on his mind, body and ability to write.
That was written while Moss herself was living in Iceland for a year with her young family, dealing with all the comically fascinating problems she recounts in her memoir, Names for the Sea, such as how to buy a cheap fridge in a country horrified by anything second-hand.
Michele Weldon is an award-winning author of five nonfiction books, including her latest, Escape Points: A Memoir, named an Editors Choice by Booklist in 2015.
He's recently jotted all of this down into a memoir Porcelain: A Memoir, named after his critically acclaimed track "Porcelain" (yup, the one from The Beach)—and he appeared on Larry King's talkshow today to promote it.
But my favourite was the Wolf of Wall Street," he wrote in the best-selling first instalment of his memoirs, named after his favourite moniker.
In 1983, Ms. Gardiner wrote a memoir, "Code Name Mary," that shattered the authenticity of the so-called Julia segment in "Pentimento".
The Reese Witherspoon biopic Ashley's War, about a pioneering elite woman soldier who fought in Afghanistan, joins an adaptation of the bestselling 2014 memoir Code Name: Johnny Walker, by American Sniper co-author Jim DeFelice, on studio slates.
Straight Outta Compton screenwriter Alan Wenkus will adapt the untitled film from the bestselling 2014 memoir Code Name: Johnny Walker, which tells how an Iraq-born man helped saved countless American military lives during a six-year stint accompanying US servicemen targeting terrorists.
Kathryn Atwood, the editor of Witherington's memoir Code Name Pauline, relays her remarkable story.
Frank Langella on John Gielgud (From his memoir "Dropped Names"): "As a teenager, I had worshipped John Gielgud's voice and manner and his clear, precise, intelligent delivery of Shakespeare.
