Read more autobiography stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/9929/autobiography.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 13:52:34 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/74318/americas-best-political-memoirs.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWith Going Rogue flying off the shelves, Time looks back on the best political memoirs ever, including: Ulysses S. Grant —The first presidential memoir to take the nation by storm, Grant finished his book just days before he died, and loaded it with thoughtful reflections and Civil War action.http://www.newser.com/story/74318/americas-best-political-memoirs.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 19 Nov 2009 16:38:43 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73593/andre-agassis-autobiography-lively-but-narrow.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagAndre Agassi’s autobiography has gotten a lot of hype, thanks to his admission of using both crystal meth and a toupee—but most of Open deals with “tennis, more tennis, the misery of tennis,” writes Janet Maslin in the New York Times . Still, even minutely detailed descriptions of matches prove...http://www.newser.com/story/73593/andre-agassis-autobiography-lively-but-narrow.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 09 Nov 2009 8:30:47 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73312/obamas-half-bro-says-dad-beat-him-mom.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFor Mark Ndesandjo, Barack Obama is something of a monster. Not the president, but their father, Barack Obama Sr. Ndesandjo, full name Mark Odoth Obama Ndesandjo, has just released an autobiographical novel depicting the Obama patriarch as a brilliant-but-violent drunk who beat him and his Jewish-American mother, and while some...http://www.newser.com/story/73312/obamas-half-bro-says-dad-beat-him-mom.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 04 Nov 2009 13:24:37 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/68483/kennedy-memoir-chappaquiddick-inexcusable.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTed Kennedy tells of his anguish after Chappaquiddick in a memoir to be published this month, reports the New York Times , admitting that he "made terrible decisions" in the accident that killed his passenger, Mary Jo Kopechne. In True Compass, Kennedy deals unsparingly with the low points in his life,...http://www.newser.com/story/68483/kennedy-memoir-chappaquiddick-inexcusable.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 03 Sep 2009 6:00:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/67031/biography-bares-lord-of-the-flies-authors-demons.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagIn an unpublished autobiography, the author of Lord of the Flies described his attempted rape of a 15-year-old when he was about 18, the Times of London reports. While walking with the girl, he “felt sure she wanted heavy sex, as this was visibly written on her pert, ripe and...http://www.newser.com/story/67031/biography-bares-lord-of-the-flies-authors-demons.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 16 Aug 2009 11:42:11 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/65176/lebron-book-teen-fame-made-me-a-big-headed-jerk.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagNot every 17-year-old gets on the cover of Sports Illustrated , and LeBron James admits in his upcoming book he had trouble with the instant fame, the Daily News reports. He and his high school teammates became "big-headed jerks," he writes in Shooting Stars. "We are to blame for that, but...http://www.newser.com/story/65176/lebron-book-teen-fame-made-me-a-big-headed-jerk.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 23 Jul 2009 21:36:36 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/53108/a-year-later-spitzer-hooker-proud-of-herself.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWondering how Ashley Dupre is doing, one year after Eliot Spitzer’s downfall? She'll tell you herself, in lengthy detail, through her blog on Global Grind, the New York Daily News reports. Though she’s “made more mistakes than most people make in a lifetime,” the 23-year-old is “proud of myself for...http://www.newser.com/story/53108/a-year-later-spitzer-hooker-proud-of-herself.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 12 Mar 2009 7:56:19 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/52897/miley-dishes-on-her-achy-breaky-heart.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMiley Cyrus has a heart condition, the New York Daily News reports. The starlet discusses her tachycardia—a fast heart rate—in her new autobiography Miles to Go , saying it “isn’t dangerous” and “won’t hurt me.” However, for the Hannah Montana star, "There is never a time onstage when I’m...http://www.newser.com/story/52897/miley-dishes-on-her-achy-breaky-heart.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 10 Mar 2009 8:46:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/52386/miley-was-bullied-lonely-in-high-school.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMiley Cyrus may have a fan club now, but in high school she had the “Anti-Miley Club,” she says in her autobiography, released yesterday. The actress-singer recalls being bullied at her Tennessee high school to the point that a grilled cheese sandwich “pretty much was my best friend,” the Sun...http://www.newser.com/story/52386/miley-was-bullied-lonely-in-high-school.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 04 Mar 2009 11:45:38 CST