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[quote=Anonymous]I love autobiographies and memoirs but question their accuracy. its a serious question of do you want to get an accurate historical record of this person's life or just a first hand narrative? I like the autobiographies for the first hand narrative, not really caring about truth. I kinda compare it to sitting in grandpa's lap as a young kid. I couldn't verify those stories but they were fun to listen to.

But there's also the question about who's getting the money. Some autobiographies were written during stretches in a person's life when they were in jail or unable to continue their former careers and so they got a really bad deal for their life story and sometimes it was ghostwritten and just put out there more than a real project.

That said, some of my favorite autobiographies
 - Somebody's Daughter
 - Miles Davis
 - Zora Neal Hurston
 - Harry Belefonte
 - Charles Persons
 - Chuck Berry
 - Cicely Tyson
 - Herbie Hancock

Some good biographies
 - BB King
 - Satchel Paige

There are a lot more in the local libraries and I haven't found any that weren't good reads, some were better than others but none were "bad" in my opinion. [/quote]

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