In 1971, McGraw-Hill was about to publish Hughes's autobiography when it learned that the book was an elaborate hoax for which its authors, Clifford Irving and Richard Suskind, would later go to jail.

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Readers of Packard's 1995 autobiography, The HP Way, or Michael Malone's 2007 book Bill and Dave will find familiar vignettes.

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That is not only because Mr Brillstein's book, unlike the others, is a (ghostwritten) autobiography.

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Passages of autobiography and anecdote enliven the hard science, but the book's real drama is at a cellular level.

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Keane's tackle earned him a red card but in his book, Keane - The Autobiography, he claims it was pre-meditated and provoked by an encounter between the two some years earlier.

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Kyle wrote the best-selling book, "American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History, " detailing his 150-plus kills of insurgents from 1999 to 2009.

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Chambers' autobiography is published on Monday and book extracts criticising Lord Sebastian Coe and questioning Olympic champion Christine Ohuruogu's drug testing conduct have all reignited the debate over his continued participation in the sport, helping to overshadow the build-up to this Italian event.

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