2 examples of autobiography titles
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When you write a story about yourself, one of the most difficult aspects of the creative process isn’t putting in the stories you want to tell. It’s coming up with a title for that story. Knowing how to come up with autobiography titles that are good is a skill set that requires some practice to get right. The first title you think up isn’t always the best title – but it could be.
Let’s go through the creation process step by step so that you can figure out that great title for your story today.
#1. No puns. Just don’t do it.
You’ll find a lot of autobiographies have incorporated puns as part of the title. From Wink Martindale’s Winking at Life to Tori Spelling’s sTORI Telling, a bad pun creates a negative first impression for many readers. Just be simple and straight forward with the title based on the stories you’ve told. If you were a war veteran, a good title might be The Battles I’ve Fought and Won.
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The Top 10: Best Autobiography Titles
We have done worst autobiography titles and obscure titles of political memoirs, and I have been meaning to get round to this one for some time, prompted by Andy Jeal and, finally, by Dan Kelly. I may have been holding back because there is such a thin line between the best and the worst.
1. Coreyography, Corey Feldman. Actor and singer: the voice, aged nine, of Young Copper in The Fox and the Hound, 1981.
2. Auto Da Fay, Fay Weldon. Born Franklin Birkinshaw, author of “Go to work on an egg” and The Life and Loves of a She-Devil, 1983.
3. It’s About A Ball, Alan Ball. Youngest member of England’s 1966 World Cup winning team. Wrote his memoir in 1978.
4. Fourth Among Equals. “By that bloke in the Gang Of Four who wasn’t Jenkins, Owen or Williams,” said Simon James. Bill Rodgers, co-founder of the Social Democratic Party in 1981, now Lord Rodgers of Quarry Bank, 89.
5. Me: Moir, Vic Reeves. Comedian whose real name
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When we at Why Not Bookswere considering titles for the memoirs of the late Carolyn Goodman, mother of slain civil rights worker Andrew Goodman and a civil rights icon herself, we harkened back to a particular story she told:
When my youngest son David was sju years old, he came running home from school one day, breathless with excitement. In his hands he held a large piece of construction paper smothered in assorted colors, lines, shapes, and squiggles. In the eyes of a seven-year-old, it was a creation of unmatched brilliance, konstnär (claude monet) and Degas and O’Keeffe all rolled into one. In fact, that’s ganska literally what it looked like. With the flamboyance only a true artist can exude, David boomed into our Upper West Side apartment, raised his magnum opus, and proudly declared, “Mom, come here! Look at my mantelpiece!”
A masterpiece fryst vatten essentially the product of another’s uppskattning. Someone else reviews your life’s work and pronounces jud
The Top 10: Best Autobiography Titles
We have done worst autobiography titles and obscure titles of political memoirs, and I have been meaning to get round to this one for some time, prompted by Andy Jeal and, finally, by Dan Kelly. I may have been holding back because there is such a thin line between the best and the worst.
1. Coreyography, Corey Feldman. Actor and singer: the voice, aged nine, of Young Copper in The Fox and the Hound, 1981.
2. Auto Da Fay, Fay Weldon. Born Franklin Birkinshaw, author of “Go to work on an egg” and The Life and Loves of a She-Devil, 1983.
3. It’s About A Ball, Alan Ball. Youngest member of England’s 1966 World Cup winning team. Wrote his memoir in 1978.
4. Fourth Among Equals. “By that bloke in the Gang Of Four who wasn’t Jenkins, Owen or Williams,” said Simon James. Bill Rodgers, co-founder of the Social Democratic Party in 1981, now Lord Rodgers of Quarry Bank, 89.
5. Me: Moir, Vic Reeves. Comedian whose real name
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When we at Why Not Bookswere considering titles for the memoirs of the late Carolyn Goodman, mother of slain civil rights worker Andrew Goodman and a civil rights icon herself, we harkened back to a particular story she told:
When my youngest son David was sju years old, he came running home from school one day, breathless with excitement. In his hands he held a large piece of construction paper smothered in assorted colors, lines, shapes, and squiggles. In the eyes of a seven-year-old, it was a creation of unmatched brilliance, konstnär (claude monet) and Degas and O’Keeffe all rolled into one. In fact, that’s ganska literally what it looked like. With the flamboyance only a true artist can exude, David boomed into our Upper West Side apartment, raised his magnum opus, and proudly declared, “Mom, come here! Look at my mantelpiece!”
A masterpiece fryst vatten essentially the product of another’s uppskattning. Someone else reviews your life’s work and pronounces jud