Many ‘autobiographies’ of the 20th and the 21st Centuries were partly works of fiction written by ghostwriters. Some celebrities with little talent for writing employ a ghostwriter to help them tell their stories. These are often embellished and the facts ‘tweaked’ to increase their entertainment value. The American writer James Frey’s autobiography A Million Little Pieces was rebranded as a novel after it was shown to be have been largely embellished. Some celebrities (mentioning no names but let’s just say a ‘Super Model’ and also a 'Spicy Lady') are even rumoured never to have read their own autobiographies!
The last of our quizzes on autobiographies poses the questions of who wrote Common as Muck, Against the Odds and The Kindness of Strangers. If you are good with titles then try and remember that of Jimmy Nail's autobiography. See if you can achieve the perfect score of ten out of ten!
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He played the ARP Warden, William Hodges
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It was first published in the London Magazine in 1821, then in book form the following year
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Brown's real name is Royston Vasey, and this was chosen as the name for the fictional town in the comedy TV show The League of Gentlemen in which he makes some cameo appearances
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The title is a reference to the classic Beano comic character Dennis the Menace
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He invented the bagless vacuum cleaner
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Toklas was Stein's lifelong partner
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The autobiography is one of 15 books to have been written by Adams
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He also wrote poetry with one of his works, On the Ning Nang Nong, being voted the nation's favourite comic poem in 1998
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Kate also wrote Corsets to Camouflage: Women and War, Nobody's Child, Into Danger: People Who Risk Their Lives for Work and Fighting on the Home Front: The Legacy of Women in World War One
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Nail's name at birth was James Michael Aloysius Bradford
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